Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Foot Locker, Inc.

Utrecht

Hybrid

EUR 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working (hybrid)

Employee discount

Learning & Health/Wellbeing programs

Career development in international 팀

Travel reimbursement

Pension plan

Job summary

Foot Locker, Inc. in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives to drive cross-functional programs across EMEA, aligning with the Strategy Team and Sr.

Director to deliver impact across commercial, customer experience, store operations and digital priorities. You will coordinate delivery, manage dependencies and risks, and translate strategy into executable plans while partnering with executive sponsors and leaders to realise benefits in a fast-paced, matrixed

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field; MBA is a plus.
5–7 years in project/program management or strategy delivery, ideally in retail.
Strong coordination, governance and benefits tracking across multiple initiatives.
Excellent stakeholder communication and executive update delivery.
Pragmatic delivery mindset with structured governance rhythms.

Responsibilities

Translate priorities into structured, executable plans with milestones and owners.
Drive day-to-day delivery, manage dependencies and risks with clear options.
Lead PMO rhythms: steering committees, boards, reviews, reporting.
Align stakeholders and translate delivery detail for senior leadership.
Coordinate change adoption and benefits realisation across initiatives.

Skills

Project management

Portfolio coordination

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business

MBA

Tools

Microsoft Office

PM tools

Dashboarding

Job description

Overview

The Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives sits within the Strategy Team and drives the delivery of cross-functional strategic initiatives across EMEA. Working closely with the Sr. Director, Strategy and functional leaders, the role brings structure, pace and clarity to complex initiatives spanning functions and markets, with a focus on commercial, customer experience, store operations, and digital priorities.

Day to day, the role coordinates delivery and portfolio management by creating transparency on progress, dependencies, and risks. It keeps stakeholders aligned and provides leadership with clear, decision-ready insights to keep initiatives focused on impact. The role also supports the Sr. Director in translating strategy into plans and works with functional teams to adopt new ways of working and realise benefits.

The role has no direct reports and delivers through influence – mobilising and aligning teams across functions and markets, partnering with executive sponsors, functional leaders and workstream owners, and escalating where senior decisions are needed.

Responsibilities

Strategic Initiative Planning and Mobilisation

Support the Sr. Director, Strategy in translating agreed strategic priorities into structured, executable plans - drafting objectives, milestones, owners, and success measures for review and sign-off.
Support the scoping and shaping of initiatives with a direct impact on profitability, pulling together the analysis, options, and trade-offs that underpin the case for change and the leadership decision.

Programme delivery and pace-setting

Drive day-to-day delivery of assigned strategic initiatives, setting clear expectations and holding workstream owners to agreed standards and milestones.
Lead PMO rhythms: steering committees, programme boards, weekly delivery reviews, and reporting.
Identify risks early, remove blockers, and escalated with clear options and recommendations.
Drive consistent delivery methods across teams (standards, templates, tooling, ways of working).
Build and run the integrated roadmap, managing cross-programme dependencies and critical path.
Establish clear outcomes, KPIs, and benefits tracking across initiatives.

Stakeholder management and alignment

Partner with executive sponsors, functional leaders and workstream owners - building the relationships that keep initiatives moving and translating complex delivery detail into messages that land with both senior leadership and delivery teams.
Maintain the stakeholder map for each initiative, agreeing who is consulted, informed, and involved in decisions, and keeping engagement plans current as initiatives move through delivery.

Change and benefits realisation

Coordinate change adoption activities across initiatives - readiness, communications, training, and field enablement - supporting functional and market teams as they embed new ways of working and flagging where additional support is needed.
Capture lessons learned at initiative close and feed them back into delivery standards and ways of working.
Track benefits realisation and ensure initiatives deliver the promised value.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field (MBA a plus).
5-7 years of experience in project or programme management, strategic initiatives, business transformation, or strategy delivery - ideally in retail or a similarly complex, customer-facing environment - including delivery of multi-workstream initiatives in an international, matrixed organisation.
Strong portfolio coordination capabilities - prioritisation support, dependency management, delivery governance, and benefits tracking across several initiatives running in parallel.
Excellent stakeholder and communication skills - able to influence and work confidently with senior functional leaders, and produce crisp executive updates, clear narrative, and actionable reporting.
A pragmatic delivery mindset - comfortable with ambiguity, able to impose structure quickly, anticipate what’s needed, make pragmatic trade-offs and escalated when required, and experienced running governance rhythms such as steering committees and delivery reviews.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex information.
Proficiency with project and portfolio management tools, dashboarding, and Microsoft Office applications.

Benefits