Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Footlocker

Utrecht

On-site

EUR 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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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

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 escalat
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 escalat 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.

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