Manager, Project Management

Area:                                                                                       Global Operations

Department:                                                                           Strategy and Programs

Direct Reporting Line:                                                           Director Project Management

Indirect/secondary reporting line:                                        N/A

Subsidiary / country                                                              GCA & APAC

Location:                                                                                Shanghai

GSMS Grade:                                                                                         M4

Personnel managed:                                                          No

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This is an in-house strategy key position for an organized, passionate and goal-oriented talent who understands what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change.

• Drive major change initiatives across functions
• Manage stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
• Support enhancement activities on project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of Strategy & Programs within own network

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead program, project activities and manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to (senior) management
• Execute overall project management and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring)
• Design and drive analytics framework to support project execution
• Lead interpretation of project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
• Provide guidance and manage activities of assistant project managers and business analysts
• Manage Fulfilment Strategy & Programs departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing and employer branding)

Key Relationships:

• Initiate project activities and connect with other stakeholders to share activities at work stream level (e.g. GOPS, IT)
• Initiate and drive discussions with stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback and gather input on solutions
• Establish working relationship and maintain regular contact with stakeholders
• Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:
  • Product (Creation functions, Footwear, Apparel and A&G product ops, etc.)
  • Markets (SCM and Sales functions) 
  • Marketing (horizontal and vertical BU divisions)
  • GOPS (Global IT, SCM, etc.)
  • Corporate functions (e.g. legal, finance & performance management)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• Capability to simplify complex matters and provide options
• Ability to build storyline to convey messages in a simple way
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and high level of influence skills
• Ability to work independently

Hard skills:

• Strong Excel analytics
• Extensive PowerPoint knowledge and skills
• Project management lean six-sigma certification
• Experience with project planning and process mapping tools (e.g. MS Project, Visio)
• Basic knowledge of enterprise solutions (e.g. SAP, development systems)
  • Other HR toolboxes (e.g. Campus and self-learning modules)

People management skills:

• Work with and guide interns
• Manage work stream teams
• Assist coaching of more junior team members

Requisite Education and Qualifications: 

• Minimum 3-4 years of relevant work experience in MNC environment (e.g. management consulting, or regional exposure)
• Within which ~2 years of relevant project management or industry experiences
• University degree required