Senior Director Programs Change, Communication & Training (m/f/d)

 

Area - Global Sales

Department - TRANS4RM            

 

Purpose

As Senior Director, TRANS4RM Program’s Change, Communication & Training Lead, your task is to create, manage and deliver change management, communication strategies and training to maximize adoption of the program for both Global and Market organizations. The role’s objective is to conduct the change, communication & training measures of the TRANS4RM Program within the boundaries of time, cost & quality while focusing on business expectations and requirements. You will have a proven track record of leading teams and will be able to provide coaching, guidance, direction, and leadership to the project team in relation to various issues, risks, activities, general management, and project approach. In addition, you will act as a strategic advisor for people elements with dynamic consulting, planning and focus on seamless and consistent execution to accelerate the execution of TRANS4RM.  This all while ensuring strong communication internally and externally, exceptional collaboration, and stakeholder management.

 

Key Responsibilities

Change, Comms & Training for TRANS4RM

• Deliver change, comms & training end-to-end successfully, from ideation to delivery by satisfying Business and Program requirements.
• Strong execution drive to deliver output / outcome and impactful change management, communication & training.
• Have a deep understanding of the TRANS4RM project portfolio to ensure that change, communication & training requirements for all projects are addressed and considered. Partner proactively with all TRANS4RM workstreams and dependent projects to ensure consistent approach on change, comms & training.
• Active leadership towards change, comms & training resources in matrix organization.
• Lead TRANS4RM change internally and externally.

Project Management

• Form, lead, manage and monitor multi-functional team (virtual reports) resources to deliver the best outcome
• Oversee simultaneous alignment and allocation of financial, material, and human resource capabilities required to successfully complete program adoption
• Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets aligned with TRANS4RM strategy and program objectives
• Support compliance to project management standards,
• Lead or conduct engagement reviews. Verify implementation of quality assurance procedures. Ensure adoption against program KPIs
• Ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level by creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development
• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency , team feedback and make appropriate changes to meet people and business needs

Stakeholder Management

• Establish strong collaboration with Corporate Comms to ensure that our communication deliverables follow existing rules of adidas communication while being creative to operate according to program needs.
• Ensure constant alignment with dependent project (eg, FPS, P², TMS, M3, …)
• Design, define and implement Advocate network on TRANS4RM to deliver a consistent and frequent information towards a boarder user group.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Extensive experience in producing organization-wide communications and communication strategies and experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools, preferably as part of a complex program environment
• Understanding and execution of training needs analysis, user-based training journeys, building strong training/learning curriculum on appropriate platforms
• Effective leader and strong coach
• Hands on mentality and strong execution focus
• Very strong analytical, visionary, and conceptual thinking and experience in Tech organization
• Proven track record of leading and implementing larger-scale programs and projects.
• Ability to anticipate issues and the unexpected and plan for them.
• Capability to reduce complexity and to identify / manage dependencies.
• Proactive, effective, and targeted communication abilities (verbal, written, and visual) on all levels
• International mind-set and English fluency
• Strong integrator skills, such as
  • keen interest and desire to build connections among people to enable growth opportunities.
  • willingness to listen, observe and learn from teams and individuals.
  • value base that recognizes and celebrates the diverse abilities of people

 

Qualifications

• + 10 years of relevant work experience, prefera