Purpose
& Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

Develop, support and manage key initiatives across the commercial organization
to achieve top priorities

 

He/she will achieve this mission by:

• Play as the key interface of
  all commercial channel initiatives

• Support Commercial SVP in driving
  and guiding initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects

• Providing deep-dive support on initiatives
  with value-added analysis

• Communicating with key
  stakeholders regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future
  actions

 

Key
Responsibilities:

 

Project Planning

• Coordinate and manage
  initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions

• Engage with Commercial SVP to
  identify initiative owners and core team members

• Drive and guide initiative
  owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs

• Ensure project objectives are
  aligned with strategic direction of commercial channels

 

Project Management / Support / Communications

• Engage with initiative owners
  and key stakeholders to determine role and contribution for each initiative

• Manage and guide the overall
  project life-cycle from start to finish

• Proactively recommend and align
  on additional support to be provided

• Work with initiative owners to
  build high quality and constructive project updates for review

• Act as liaison and
  communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative
  direction and priorities, and to manage cross-initiative interdependences 

• Proactively share best
  practices and escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities
  identified

 

Systems and Processes

• Provide active process
  management and value-added analysis – typically focused on initiatives that
  require:

• New or custom process
  development

• Ad-hoc data analysis and
  insight

• Heavy cross-functional
  alignment and management

• Prepare regular updates to Commercial
  SVP on overall Commercial Channels initiative progress

• Coordinate with Corporate PMO
  on initiative KPI and performance evaluation

 

People Management

• Provide senior management with
  objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing
  their expectations

• Provide advice and feedback to
  initiative owners and core members to ensure high quality, timely execution

• Act as communication bridge
  across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and
  priorities, and proactively escalate any potential issues, risks and new
  opportunities identified

 

Training

• Drive and guide initiative
  owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

 

KPIs:

• Initiative achievement,
  contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact

• Overall project leadership,
  communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.

   

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

   

1. Strong process and project
   management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet
   changing needs;

• Solid business sense and
  analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both
  conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis;

• Strategic thinking and problem
  solving

• Team leadership – able to lead
  and influence project teams across different functions towards a common
  objective;

• Strong multi-tasking ability to
  handle multiple projects across various topics at the same time;

1. Willingness to learn and adapt
   –to build business acumen and develop general management competency;

2. Initiative &
   entrepreneurial – take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for
   improvement;

3. People oriented – ability to
   work with, service, and navigate across a wide network throughout the
   organization;

4. Confident communicator and
   presenter, especially to senior management

    

   Requisite
   Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

    

• University degree or above
• MBA or other
  business-related qualification
• 6-8 years of general
  business experience in MNC
• Experience with leading
  consumer brand
• Experience
  in leading management consulting firm is a plus
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  Project, etc.
• Basic statistics and
  modeling knowledge
• Strong communication skills – Fluent written
  and spoken in both English and Mandarin

 

 

adidas is a global leader in the sporting goods industry with the core brands adidas and Reebok. Headquartered in Herzogenaurach /Germany, the company employs more than 56,000 people across the globe and generated sales of EUR 21 billion in 2017. In Greater China, the company employs more than 5,700 people and generated sales of over EUR 3.7 billion in 2017.
adidas China was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Shanghai, one of adidas’ six key cities across the globe. With a population of 24 million, Shanghai is the largest city in China – and eighth largest in the world. It's the country's most important center for culture, commerce, and industry. Sometimes referred to as the "Paris of the East'," Shanghai prides itself for being a fashion capital as well.
Shanghai is also the headquarter of adidas Asia-Pacific market which is crucial to achieving the brand’s mission to be the best sports company in the world.