Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
The Merchandising Head Office drives holistic merchandising priorities, managing deliverables across categories and functions to create synergy throughout the NAM Merchandising organization. The Project Manager supports the Director of Merchandising Head Office in building, driving, and implementing processes, milestones, and projects that support and enable the merchandising brand strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage projects for the merchandising organization by performing research, following up with involved parties, and identifying the appropriate course of action, referral, or response.
- Utilize planning and project management processes to ensure timely and high-quality execution.
- Track project life cycles and organize regular updates with management on initiatives.
- Perform business and operational analyses to support senior management in fact-based decision-making.
- Support senior leadership meetings through agenda preparation, information gathering, document preparation, communication of meeting expectations, and action-item follow-up.
- Manage presentation proposals for the Merchandising Leadership team, including storylines, slideshows, speaking notes, and research.
- Develop an understanding of strategic business plans and operating models to articulate complex content to diverse stakeholders.
- Coordinate initiative development, planning, and prioritization across functions.
- Support merchandising leadership with go-to-market deliverables, presentations, and action-item follow-up.
- Serve as an expert in project-management standards and capabilities and identify opportunities to upskill the wider organization.
Key Relationships
Director, Merchandising Head Office; VP of Performance and Operations; VP of Lifestyle Product; Merchandising Leadership Team; Business Development and Marketplace Strategy; Global Business Units; Brand Marketing and Commercial North America; Product Merchandising.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong critical-thinking and logical problem-solving abilities.
- Entrepreneurial and innovation capabilities.
- Strong project-management, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Ability to handle ambiguity, work independently, and develop solution-based approaches.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, changing environment and work under pressure with tight deadlines.
Minimum Qualifications
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of four years of progressive work experience.
- Previous experience with innovation and/or transformational topics.
- Experience in project management.
- Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be substituted for a degree.
Additional Information
adidas is an equal opportunity employer that supports diversity, inclusion, individual expression, and reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
This is a full-time position based in Portland, Oregon. adidas offers a hybrid work policy requiring office attendance Monday through Thursday, with flexibility to work remotely on Fridays. In-office attendance may also be required on Fridays for highly collaborative work or in-person presentations.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, disability, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) and stock purchase plans with employer match, education assistance, paid parental leave, paid holidays, flexible time off, service time off, and performance-based annual bonuses.
Company Culture
adidas promotes an athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect, with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.