Manager - Strategy & Programs

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