Principal, Supply Chain Innovation Deployment and Engagement - Partners

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Supply Chain Innovation team is a dynamic and strategic group of individuals who are passionate about driving business growth and improvement through comprehensive supply chain strategies. As a senior member of the team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Footwear, Apparel and Materials Supply Chain, and other business stakeholders, to deploy the overall Supply Chain Sustainability and Express Lane Strategies to key stakeholders.

As a key member of the Supply Chain Innovation Deployment and Engagement team, you will play a critical role in communicating the organization's supply chain strategy across a wide variety of stakeholders. You will report to the Director of Supply Chain Innovation Deployment and Engagement team. You will also collaborate with various stakeholders across Supply Chain Innovation (SCI), Product Supply Chain (including partners), Materials, Sustainability and Express Lane Teams to ensure seamless integration of supply chain strategies. You will help support critical operational moments, such as partner summits.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a highly experienced and strategic engagement professional to develop key strategies to communicate and our supply chain vision, mission, and plans of action across a vast stakeholder group – primarily focusing on our manufacturing partners. The ideal candidate has a strong background in supply chain, excellent leadership, storytelling, influencing, communication, project management, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to simplify the complex, connect with a vast array of team members at differing levels of seniority and topic depth, and develop creative and inspiring message to communicate and deploy Supply Chain strategies. You should have a mastery of using visuals and multi modals ways to share and inspire action. You should have a proven track record of developing and implementing comprehensive engagement strategies that drive connectedness, inspiration, clarity, increased brand loyalty, enhanced stakeholder experience and ultimately improved business performance. You should have experience in delivering in person meetings of over 100+ attendees.

• 10 years of experience in developing strategies, engagement and communication plans. 

• Bachelor Degree or Master's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven track record of developing and implementing comprehensive engagement strategies that drive business growth and improvement and increase stakeholder loyalty. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with globally distributed cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication, active listening, and presentation skills working with a variety of media. 

• Project Management Skills: Ability to plan, organize, and manage projects effectively. 

• Stakeholder Relationship Management Skills: Ability to build and maintain strong relationships. 

• Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify and resolve issues effectively. 

• Strategic Thinking Skills: Ability to develop and implement strategies to meet stakeholder needs and achieve company goals. 

• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders. 

• Experience in product supply chain, manufacturing, geo supply chain, logistics, sustainability desirable.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As a Principal, Supply Chain Innovation Deployment and Engagement - Partners, you will work on developing and implementing comprehensive engagement strategies that drive clarity for stakeholders and employees to understand their role in Supply Chain. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy strategies in an engaging, clarifying and inspiring way to drive understanding, education and to galvanize action. Your main focus will be to support engagement with our manufacturing partners.

• Develop, coordinate, direct, and facilitate strategy deployment and engagement strategies designed to meet business goals and increase connectedness to supply chain strategy.

• Use superior storytelling to create multi-modal assets to explain complex topics.

• Support delivery of large meetings such as manufacturing partner summits.

• Analyzing stakeholder needs.

• Manage project scope, budget, and timelines. 

• Ensure projects stay on track to meet objectives. 

• Identify and resolve issues or problems that arise during project execution. 

• Facilitate communication between teams

• Work closely with internal teams (product supply chain, materials, sustainability) to ensure a unified approach to strategy engagement. 

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