Tasks and activities

• Defines, plans and coordinates work teams including coordinating the activities of cross- functional teams by leading through influence to ensure project timelines are met.
• Leads collaborative project review meetings to highlight significant updates, assessing risks and risk mitigation plans while providing project status to key stakeholders.
• Mobilizes and motivates effective project teams; communicating effectively across teams and groups; reprioritizing as necessary to address changes in the business and/or shifting needs.
• Manages projects through to completion ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining overall project ownership to assigned projects.
• Develops timelines, and ensures progress to plan, as well as tracks and communicates critical project achievements and/or risks.
• Works with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and lead projects or activities as well as develop baseline financial metrics to document savings of identified projects / initiatives.
• Acts as a primary point of contact for designated projects facilitating project update meetings, and written communication and reports to inform stakeholders of progress.
• Uses designate process mapping, tracking and assigned tools for project life cycle management to meet business needs.
• Ensures time and resources align with business prioritizes and objectives and escalates project risks to manager as appropriate.
• Addresses problems through risk mitigation and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to Senior Operations Manager and other key stakeholders, ensuring effective implementation of solutions/changes.
• Deliver results for each project through leadership and partnership with cross-functional teams and by working directly with various stakeholders across the Company.
• Drives process improvement, and adherence to company project standards for assigned projects
• Build and maintain good relationships with all business customers, colleagues, vendors/partners and consultants.
• Recommend strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, evaluating trends and anticipating requirements.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings necessary to coordinate and manage projects and other related business requirements.
• Build constructive business relationships with all stakeholders, including 3rd party vendors.

Who are you?

• Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, or related field
• Min. 4 years’ experience in project management leadership in Retail or Supply Chain fields   
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred
• Familiar with common Project Management methodologies (e.g. Lean, Agile, Six Sigma or Prince2);
• Must be proficient in MS Office products including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Power BI, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Jira
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail
• Ability to perform under pressure in a very fast paced, complex, and dynamic environment
• Experience with Innovation projects, product commercialization, stage gate methodology and business execution projects.
• Project management experience with Procurement, Production, Supply Planning and Scheduling
• Effectively communicate and influence positive results.
• Experience documenting/designing business processes, performing business analysis, and requirements definition
• Strong organization and prioritization skills with the ability to manage a high volume of projects simultaneously
• Ability to project manage and work on multiple assignments concurrently
• A high self-starting ability, a strong analytical work and thinking ability and sufficient hands-on;
• A real trouble-shooter, result-oriented and detail oriented;

About us

We are the market leader in consumer electronics in the Netherlands. As a team we work together to remain the omnichannel player with 49 branches and an online shop. How do we do that? By putting our customers first. Always. By offering the best customer experience both online and offline. We build a party for and with our customers. We believe that anything is possible if you take action yourself. Working at MediaMarkt means: having fun and wanting to win!

Wat bieden wij jou?

• A - no exaggeration -fantastic workplace on the 38th floor in 'De Rotterdam' overlooking the Erasmus Bridge;
• A hybrid working environment: choose diversity between working at home, in the office or anywhere else;
• Good terms of employment and development and growth opportunities;
• Freedom and responsibility to shape your own job and bring ideas to fruition in an environment where anything goes;
• At MediaMarkt, we have guts. We are entrepreneurs within a company, giving you the opportunity to develop yourself quickly and diversely;
• Besides a great workplace, you are also entitled to 30 vacation days, an attractive employee discount, collective health insurance, company fitness and discounts on various insurance products.

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