Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:To support profitable and sustainable market share growth for all brands (adidas & Reebok) in Asia Pacific - Korea through driving implementation of Asia Pacific and Korea Key Strategic Initiatives, providing Project Management Office support and coordinating Change management following major project implementation.
Key Responsibilities: Project Planning
- Collaboratively steer, coordinate and prioritize cross-functional strategic priorities
- Drive the project scoping, create and share a systematic and integrated view of all key strategic initiatives in Korea
- Ensure objectives are aligned with the strategic direction of Asia Pacific and Korea
- Drive guide and support function leaders in the planning and execution of the respective strategic initiatives
Project Management / Support / Communications
- Coordinate and manage prioritization processes across markets/functions for each initiative implementation
- Provides project administration support to ensure documentation, supporting materials, and project plans are updated and readily available for project teams and senior leaders
- Facilitate internal and external meetings when necessary
- Consolidate and analyze data collected from project information, compare results with baseline and communicate status to Korea SLT
- Provide Korea SLT, APAC PMO and HQ with regular updates on project implementation progress through maintenance and development of project status reports.
Change management
- Support Korea SLT team in change management process following all major project implementation.
- Support function leaders to build change management plans and monitor progress.
- Communicate risks, escalate decision points and obtain required strategic direction from Korea SLT team KPIs:
- Work-stream(s), Initiative(s) achievement – Time to Completion, Resource Utilisation
- Contribution to the development of the overall business strategy and organisational set up
- Qualitative feedback from Leads, Sponsors and Global Interfaces on overall project leadership, communications, problem solving, strategic influence
Key Relationships:
- Executive team of adidas Korea
- Market Sales Directors (and Sales Management Team)
- Market Brand Directors (and Brand Management Team)
- Asia Pacific PMO team
- Asia Pacific work stream leads
- Global Sales Strategy and Business Development team
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong process and project management skills – organized but flexible approach
- Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills
- Influential skills– able to mobilize people across functions towards a common objective. Not just with logic but also by other means (e.g. appealing to authority, relationship, etc.)
- Strong multi-tasking and prioritization abilities to handle multiple projects at the same time;
- Takes initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement with an owner mentality
- People oriented & Collaborative – ability to work with, service, and navigate across a wide network throughout the organization
- Confident, has good judgement and will assert and stand behind it
- Accountable, reliable and objective, leveraging fact base
- Solid skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.) and experience with problem- solving tools (e.g. logic trees, storylines, quantitative models)
- Strong communication skills – written and spoken English
- Broad understanding of business value drivers and operations
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree or above (MBA or other business-related qualification preferred)
- 7-9 years of general business experience
- Strong track record in cross functional/market level project management with leading consumer brands or consulting firms
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality work on time
- Experience with initiatives/project tracking (e.g. knowledge of utilizing tracking tools)
- Experience with synthesizing large amounts of data into updates that are easy to digest
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Research and Engineering
Industries
Sporting Goods, Manufacturing, and Retail