Project Manager For Content Creation Membership

General Purpose

As a Project Manager in adidas Experience Design - Studio A, your task is to manage a longer-term digital creative project for the Adidas membership program. The project's range includes toolkit creation (with provided imagery) to campaign shoots (for photography and video production). The project scope is primarily on a global level across digital functions. Your objective is to conduct the project within the boundaries of time, cost & quality. Planning, executing, and tracking projects in cooperation with the respective functions and project team members (including working alongside other project managers). Additionally, you will be focusing on resource management and coordination activities, acting as the central interface to stakeholders and being the team's GO-TO person. Studio A is the in-house creative department for adidas. We focus on delivering high-quality content across the website and app. The Membership workstream supports our membership program, adiClub. adiClub is the best of Adidas with Members Only products, access to events, premium adidas Running and Training apps, and rewards for members for doing what you love.

Key Responsibilities

Scope: Manage and deliver long-term projects

Project Delivery

• Deliver projects end-to-end successfully, ideally through the effective application of PMI methodology
• Develop detailed plans that allow providing transparency on progress and identifying risks on time
• Identify interdependencies within the projects and solve issues proactively
• Drive continuous improvement of products, processes, or systems within the project scope

Resource Planning

• Lead, support, and manage team resources to deliver and support various work streams

Communication

• Act as the key contact person for stakeholders
• Apply appropriate and effective communication methods to the project sponsors and important stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• As conflicts arise within projects, identify solutions, and contribute to their resolution in a timely and appropriate manner and escalate to project sponsors if necessary
• Manage change within projects and ensure changes are smoothly and successfully implemented to achieve lasting benefits

Project Controlling

• Execute project controlling as an independent element to ensure that actual project costs are in line with the committed budget
• Conduct engagement reviews. Verify compliance with quality assurance procedures. Validate if projects are delivering against program KPIs
• Monitor project variables (cost, effort, scope, etc.) against a plan to implement corrective or preventive actions

If required" Responsibilities

Agile Transformation

• Drive the implementation of elements of the transformation to full agile working mode and facilitate agile adoption
• Improve processes and problem-solving

Key Relationships

• Portfolio Director & Production Director
• Senior Portfolio Manager & project managers
• Project Team I.E. Producers, creatives, designers, etc.
• Project Stakeholders
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management
• Finance Controlling

Requirements

Education & Experience

• University degree with focus on Digital Project Management, Digital Advertising, Business Administration, Communication, or related areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• At least 5 years of in-depth professional experience related to project management within the creative industry (I.E. Shoots/working with designers/agencies)
• Experience working with stakeholders at various seniority levels as well as subject matter experts across various functions (Creatives, Developers, business stakeholders, product, and marketing teams, etc.)

Soft-Skills

• Excellent communication skills, especially when interacting with various levels of business
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures
• Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
• Good numerical and analytical skills

Hard-Skills

• Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required
• Working knowledge of Creative development and Creative processes
• Working knowledge of Agile working methods e.g. Scrum/Kanban
• Working knowledge of PMI methods ideally with certification
• Fluent in English both verbally and written

Please submit your application with an English resume.