Hybrid Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

Footlocker; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid position

Employee Discount on products

Pension Plan

Travel reimbursement

Learning & Health/Wellbeing programs

Career development

Bike plan

Social Committee activities

Job summary

Foot Locker is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives to drive cross-functional work across EMEA. You will coordinate delivery, create transparency on progress and risks, and provide leadership with decision-ready insights to realise benefits.

You will partner with executives and functional leaders, comply with governance rhythms, and lead change adoption across initiatives, delivering measurable business value and growth across markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field; MBA preferred.
• 5–7 years in project or programme management, strategic initiatives, or transformation.
• Experience delivering multi-workstream initiatives in international, matrixed organizations.
• Strong portfolio coordination, dependency management, governance, and benefits tracking.
• Excellent stakeholder communication with senior leaders and exec updates.
• Pragmatic delivery mindset with structure and governance rhythms.

Responsibilities

• Translate priorities into structured, executable plans with objectives, milestones, and owners.
• Scope initiatives, present options and trade-offs to support leadership decisions.
• Lead day-to-day delivery and maintain milestones and standards.
• Run PMO rhythms: steering committees, delivery reviews, and reporting.
• Identify risks, remove blockers, escalate as needed.
• Establish integrated roadmaps and manage cross-program dependencies.
• Define outcomes, KPIs and tracking of benefits.
• Maintain stakeholder maps and engagement plans.
• Coordinate change adoption: readiness, communications, training, enablement.
• Capture lessons learned and feed improvements.
• Track realized benefits across initiatives.

Skills

Portfolio coordination

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Delivery governance

Executive updates

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

MBA (plus)

Tools

Microsoft Office

PMO tools

Job description

Foot Locker is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives to drive cross-functional work across EMEA. You will coordinate delivery, create transparency on progress and risks, and provide leadership with decision-ready insights to realise benefits.

You will partner with executives and functional leaders, comply with governance rhythms, and lead change adoption across initiatives, delivering measurable business value and growth across markets.