Please note:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.  We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service,  eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote.  The working location of this position is Portland OR.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

Purpose:  This is a key internal-facing role that supports the preparation and delivery of strategic projects across the Wholesale Channel providing timely and quality support to key initiatives, while focusing on the various expectations and requirements across teams/stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities:

Project Management

• Support the delivery of assigned workstreams, projects and plans ensuring clear deliverables, timelines and outcomes.
• Effectively coordinating cross functional interactions or touchpoints needed to complete a project/plan including scheduling meetings.
• Translate data and insights into actionable recommendations to improve project outcomes and inform decision making.

Tracking and Reporting

• Manage monthly reporting that support the Sales Execution function.
• Support the documentation of projects/programs ensuring project documents are approved, completed, maintained, and stored appropriately including taking notes in meeting, compiling actions items, etc.
• This person will be responsible for tracking Go-To-Market calendar changes from Brand partners, assessing the impact to Sales and communicating to Sales Execution team.
• Owner/manager of Sales Execution SharePoint’s, including calendar management and point person to collaborate with North America Channel SharePoint.

Communication/Administrative

• Use appropriate and effective communication methods to update Senior Management on how we are tracking against projects/plans via PowerPoint presentations, project tracking, email communication, etc.
• Support the preparation of key presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Support organizing events, managing itineraries, booking/scheduling and coordinating with cross functional partners to execute workshops, external facing meetings or leadership meetings with participants across time zones.
• Note taking, documentation and action item tracking. Handle confidential data and update distribution lists.  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures
• Business mindset with numerical and analytical skills
• Experience managing projects and stakeholders
• Good communication (both written and verbal) and facilitation skills (small and large groups) especially when interacting with different levels of business
• Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required
• Fluent English (verbal and written)
• Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint), proficient in PowerPoint a must.

Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration, or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 2-4 years of progressive work experience in mid to large scale project or program management, consulting or strategy
• MBA/PMP certified desirable