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Senior Lead - Transformation Project Management AMER
Location: Portland
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In short
As a Sr. Lead - Transformation Manager, you’ll lead complex, end-to-end projects focused on our distribution and logistics transformation in the Americas. You’ll report to the Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Transformation, Distribution & Logistics on the Global Supply Chain team. This role is crucial for supporting strategic initiatives within the region, ensuring seamless collaboration between global and regional On teams and external 3rd party partners. Your efforts will directly contribute to enhancing the scalability, cost-effectiveness, and operational resilience of our global logistics network, supporting On’s continued growth and premium service delivery.
Your Mission
- Build and execute detailed project plans and trackers, providing operational reporting and visibility for cross-functional strategic projects across the Distribution & Logistics portfolio for the Americas
- Ability to manage multiple projects and strategic priorities at once across different locations within the Americas region.
- Organize and lead regular meetings with diverse stakeholders (supply chain, operations, finance, IT, commercial, etc.) to drive alignment on project goals, timelines, and deliverables
- Ensure meetings are structured to surface key issues, drive consensus, and support timely decision-making across cross-functional teams
- Own the calendar, agendas, and follow-up actions for recurring project touchpoints, ensuring accountability and maintaining momentum throughout the project lifecycle
- Conduct root cause analysis and provide actionable recommendations to leadership for continuous improvement within distribution and logistics operations, translating complex problems into actionable solutions
- Understand and evaluate strategic project dependencies, exercising good judgement on when and how to evaluate risks and recommendations at the relevant level to mitigate risks.
- Partner closely with IT and business resources to develop and automate reporting and support business processes, driving updates to existing reports to meet changing business needs
- Support the creation of regular project updates and steering committee materials, clearly articulating project status and critical path to success
- Participate in business case creation for key strategic initiatives, ensuring all decisions are supported by rigorous analysis
- Partner closely with external business partners (e.g., 3PLs) to build robust and coherent project governance that is integrated into On ways of working and overall project management.
- Establish strong cross-functional relationships with Inventory Management, Inbound/Outbound Logistics, Allocation, Order to Cash, Distribution Center Management, and other functional partners to ensure project success
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Your story
- You have 6+ years of experience in a project management, transformation, and/or analytics reporting role, ideally within a high-growth distribution and logistics environment or other relevant experience
- You are adept at managing complexity, making sense of high-quantity, sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively, and proactively identifying underlying issues to deliver solutions
- You are comfortable making decisions with input from others, prioritizing work autonomously, and providing thoughtful recommendations even when facing ambiguity
- You optimize work processes, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in how things get done, from small tweaks to reengineering, always driving towards scalable improvements
- You navigate uncertainty effectively, operating productively even when the way forward is not entirely clear, and making mindful decisions despite ambiguity, embracing new challenges and learning from both successes and failures
- You demonstrate a self-starter mindset, proactively seeking business optimization and cost savings, and building data-driven business cases to support your recommendations
- You possess strong knowledge of best practices within Project Management and have exposure and experience with ERP systems; knowledge and exposure to WMS, TMS, or OMS systems a bonus
About the Team
You'll be joining the Global Supply Chain Transformation team, a team focused on reshaping our global supply chain to drive scalable growth at On. We are the strategic drivers of change, partnering with stakeholders across the company to implement new standards, best practices, and innovative technologies that will transform how we operate. Our mission is to lead the charge in operational excellence, from product origin to final delivery. We specialize in implementing large scale network transformations, rolling out innovative processes, and ensuring we have the right capabilities to support our ambitious growth. We are an analytical and proactive team, dedicated to solving complex problems and delivering significant, measurable change. If you are excited about leading a team to drive tangible, technology-driven improvements across a global network, then come and join us!
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Head of Integrated Business Planning
What we offer
On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.
On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination. We are requesting that you provide sensitive demographic information such as gender identity and race/ethnicity to help us ensure that we are creating equitable and fair experiences for all potential future team members. You are not required to provide this demographic information and this information will in no way impact your eligibility for hire.
What to expect
We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.
Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.
Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.