Manager - Strategy & Programs

Job Description Manager - Strategy & Programs Location: Gurgaon What We are Looking For: We are looking for a strategic storyteller and exceptional communicator someone who can connect data, insights, and business context into clear, visually compelling narratives that inspire understanding and action. This role centers around three key areas: 1. Storytelling Craft high-impact business narratives that simplify complexity and connect the dots between data, strategy, and outcomes. 2. Presentation Design Develop executive-ready presentations and leadership decks for business updates, huddles, and summits that engage and inform. 3. Strategic Communication Shape how key messages are delivered across teams and leadership, ensuring alignment, clarity, and influence. The ideal candidate is a hybrid thinker and strong communicator equally comfortable analyzing numbers, crafting strategic stories, and designing polished, visually engaging presentations. You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and have the ability to translate complexity into clarity, articulating ideas effectively across all levels of the organization. You'll succeed in this role if you: - Combine analytical rigor with creative storytelling to bring insights and ideas to life. - Possess excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with a talent for simplifying complex information. - Have a keen eye for design and detail, ensuring every slide tells a clear, purposeful story. - Are curious and collaborative, actively engaging with stakeholders to gather insights and align messaging. - Demonstrate strong organization and prioritization skills, managing multiple projects seamlessly. - Exhibit emotional intelligence and adaptability, staying composed under pressure and open to feedback. - Bring a growth mindset, positivity, and passion for the adidas brand and its digital transformation journey. Key Responsibilities: create business content, support leadership team and manage team comms to improve EM Digital's business performance and team collaboration Content Creation & Storytelling - Curate straight-forward, action-oriented narratives that simplify complex topics by connecting data, business context and stakeholder input - Brief various teammates on content needed in order to design slides that best visualize content, are formatted to perfection and adapt to feedback - Design high-impact presentations for board-level meetings, leadership updates and team communications (recurring, planned and ad hoc) - Continuously refine slide templates/image banks for reuse and efficiency - Analyze data to identify key trends, insights and business implications Leadership Support - Prepare VP EM Digital and Digital Leadership Team for key milestones, meetings, and follow-ups, continually improving cadence as needed - Create and manage a KPI tracking system to support business reviews - Provide ad hoc support on special projects and business updates Team Communications & Engagement - Draft internal communications (e.g. emails, MS Viva Engage posts, etc) - Manage and update team assets (e.g. SharePoint, onboarding deck, etc) - Collaboratively plan and produce engaging virtual/in-person team events Key Skills: - Strong communication and storytelling skills (verbal, written, visual) - Strategic thinking and business commercial acumen - High attention to detail, aesthetics and critical thinking - Actively seek, welcome and apply feedback to improve outputs and collaboration - Excellent organization and time management - Proven project management and problem-solving skills in approach and execution - Ability to simplify complexity and handle ambiguity - Collaborative mindset with stakeholder management experience - Positive attitude, curiosity, adaptability and sense of humor - Strong conceptual understanding of adidas brand and business KPIs Requisite Education & Experience: - 7+ years of experience in communications, design, analytics, project management - Experience creating content for senior leadership audiences - Management consulting, data visualization, business analytics background preferred - Advanced MS Office proficiency (PPT, Teams, Viva, XLS, SharePoint, Smartsheet) - Experience working in fast-paced, multicultural environments - Fluent in English (verbal and written) - Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed