Sporting Fashion & Goods
Lead - LightSpray Project Manager
Mid Level
Zürich, Switzerland
in office
Full time
Strategy & InsightStrategic PlanningCommercial Strategy
Job description
About the Role
This role leads strategic projects that establish best practices, drive innovation, and support a vision of advanced manufacturing solutions. Acting as a connector between teams, the postholder ensures strategic programmes are effectively implemented, roadblocks are removed, and LightSpray scales at speed. The position sits within a team of passionate innovators and entrepreneurial thinkers from diverse fields who share a mission to make high-performance footwear at scale, anywhere and anytime, while minimising environmental impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Orchestrate execution across key programmes, ensuring that innovation, operations, and commercialisation efforts are fully aligned.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to foster alignment, facilitate smooth communication, and enable effective decision-making.
- Close execution gaps in strategic initiatives, including ensuring the smooth implementation of critical contracts that affect production and commercialisation timelines.
- Integrate life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis and sustainability strategy into the scaling roadmap, embedding environmental impact considerations.
- Support unit cost estimations and financial modelling to ensure cost-efficient scaling.
- Partner with finance to create multi-year financial plans that align with strategic objectives.
- Develop manufacturing strategy to ensure manufacturing scale-up is aligned with business objectives and production capabilities.
- Establish and monitor KPIs and execution metrics to ensure efficient operations.
- Provide structured updates and insights to senior leadership (ELB and leadership reporting) to support decision-making.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 6+ years of project management experience gained in roles such as product strategy, business strategy functions, operational excellence functions focused on product, or consulting.
- Footwear and/or apparel industry experience and/or a strong consulting background.
- A strong track record of delivering complex projects successfully.
- Skill in planning, budgeting, and resource management, with a strong understanding of how to align project goals with strategic business priorities.
- Ability to influence and motivate project teams and stakeholders across different levels and functions.
- Adaptable and solutions-focused, and proactive in finding ways to overcome challenges in dynamic, evolving environments.
- Proven track record of leading complex, global projects or programmes.
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Skills
- PMP or similar certification is a plus.
Benefits & Perks
- Access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being.
- An environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically, including staying active, and learning, exploring and innovating.
- A supportive, team-oriented atmosphere.
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