Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. . 

Project Manager Innovation & People Insights

As our new Project Manager, you will operate at the heart of our global, fast-moving company. By defining, preparing, leading, and executing tech projects, you ensure AD Group Enterprise Platforms has the processes and structures in place to continue our high-level performance in the Innovation & People Insights domain. 

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 19 strong local retail brands all over the world, we aim to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our employees thrive.

This involves:

As a Project Manager in the Innovation & People Insights domain, you will be joining our Tech department. Our Tech department is the driving force behind the technology in our organization. Powered by our innovative strategies, our Tech teams ensure we’re fully aligned to develop, maintain, and improve our technology platforms and applications. As AD Group and the field of technology evolve continuously, we encourage our associates to grow with us. Personal development and learning are vital. The more we learn, the better we’re able to ensure that the rest of the organization learns and develops too. We’re collaborative, ambitious, and open, taking ownership of our work, and continuously challenge ourselves and each other. That said, we work hard and have lots of fun along the way, too. 

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future. 

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones: 

Project Preparation: 

• Identify and collect ideas, analyze business needs, stakeholders, and linkages to other projects. 

• Define project scope and objectives and determine project feasibility. 

• Ensure the requirements of internal clients are made explicit and challenge requirements in view of targets. 

• Select resources and the project team in line with project goals and budget requirements. 

Project Planning: 

• Formulate the project plan, including resourcing, planning, risk mitigation, quality control, and organizational requirements. 

• Determine budget and acquire approval in line with project objectives. 

Project Execution: 

• Manage project execution, coordinate all involved internal and external parties, and monitor consistency with the project plan and approved changes. 

• Analyze, determine, and manage risk, issue, management, and quality plans. 

• Monitor and control the realization of deliverables in line with explicit quality agreements, standards, budget, and guidelines. 

Project Closure and Evaluation: 

• Ensure the closure of projects for all stakeholders, including project documentation, closure material, and the definition of potential follow-up activities. 

• Hand the project over to the business and identify and analyze lessons learned. 

Knowledge Development: 

• Keep up to date with relevant developments within the field of expertise/sector and the strategy and policy of the organization. 

• Identify knowledge gaps in your department/discipline and ensure the development and exchange of knowledge. 

Management Information: 

• Ensure, prepare, explain, and follow up on project management reports in line with global reporting standards and/or local requirements. 

Stakeholder Management: 

• Manage stakeholder expectations and satisfaction, cooperate with internal and external stakeholders to realize project goals. 

• Provide advice while maintaining the right balance between conflicting interests. 

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Higher vocational education with 7-10 years of relevant experience or a master’s degree with 2-5 years of relevant experience 

• Fluent in English (both spoken and written) 

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an entrepreneurial mindset, outspoken communication skills, and a proactive approach. In addition to these, a high level of creativity, empathy, and enthusiasm will take you far. 

Apply now!
Are you keen to join the team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Katie Hillman via Katherine.hillman@aholddelhaizeusa.com if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.
 

The GSO sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.

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