Onsite Senior Manager, HR Projects

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About the role

  • Senior HR Manager leading organizational design and workforce planning at Adidas. Driving change management and delivering transformation projects across functions, cultures, and markets.

Responsibilities

  • This role is a critical driver of business transformation, with a primary focus on Organizational Design, Strategic Workforce Planning, and Change Management.
  • You will lead complex initiatives that reshape how the organization operates, designing future-ready structures, enabling workforce readiness, and ensuring smooth, sustainable transitions across functions, markets, and region.
  • With full end-to-end accountability for project delivery, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, set clear direction, solve complex organizational challenges, and apply strong analytical and strategic thinking.
  • Lead and deliver complex transformation projects using proven project management methodologies.
  • Inspire and guide project teams with clarity and purpose.
  • Define and manage project scope, objectives, milestones, and success metrics aligned with business priorities.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional and global/regional stakeholders.
  • Communicate effectively to ensure alignment and transparency.
  • Adapt project strategies to account for cultural and regional nuances.
  • Champion the adoption of AI-enabled decision-making, automation solutions, and digital tools within HR transformation projects.
  • Lead and evolve organizational design standards and governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance, and long-term organizational health.
  • Define roles, capabilities, spans/layers, and reporting structures that support scalability and future workforce needs.
  • Partner with business leaders to translate strategy into future-ready organizational structures.
  • Transform workforce planning into a strategic capability focused on workforce readiness, capacity modeling, and long-term planning.
  • Build mid- and long-term workforce strategies based on scenario planning, demand/supply modeling, and business priorities.
  • Consider organizational readiness, identify risks, and proactively remove barriers to transformation.

Requirements

  • Proven track record leading complex organizational change projects across multiple countries and/or regions and cultures.
  • Strong expertise in organizational design, workforce planning, and/or change management methods and tools.
  • Ability to design integrated end-to-end solutions, move with speed, and drive initiatives to completion.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior and executive-level leaders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to make sound decisions with limited information.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
  • High proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, and Teams.
  • Highly desirable: 3 years experience managing projects associated with business transformation; ie organizational changes, mergers, acquisitions, re-sizing and/or operating model changes.
  • Experience applying AI tools, automation technologies, digital workforce platforms, or analytics engines to HR transformation, workforce planning, or org design.
  • Ability to interpret AI-generated workforce insights and translate them into actionable organizational recommendations.
  • Understanding of automation opportunities (RPA, workflow automation, process optimization) and their impact on operating models, roles, and capability needs.

Benefits

  • AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE.
  • CULTURE STARTS WITH PEOPLE, IT STARTS WITH YOU.
  • WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

Job title

Senior Manager, HR Projects

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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