Marketing Junior Project Manager

Marketing Junior Project Manager

We have an excellent opportunity available for a Marketing Junior Project Manager to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The position lies within the Eastern Europe Business Unit, based in our Amsterdam office in Netherlands. You'll be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level and evolve our marketing agenda together. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal stakeholders. You will be bringing to life the exciting innovation and portfolio change projects, which are instrumental to our growth plans. We are looking for a Marketing Junior Project Manager with at least 2 years experience across marketing, project management or related functions. You must have strong organizational skills, cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving skills in order to bring projects to life, with the goal to maximize the consumer offering and experience for Heinz across Eastern Europe.

In brief, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering innovation and portfolio projects for our Eastern European region: ranging from new launches, product renovations, design changes and technical updates
• Project management of end-to-end initiatives, building and navigating cross-functional project teams through the operational and portfolio change stage processes
• Platform & Process Ownership: Drive project execution through HIVE- project management tool- managing key stakeholders, including internal factories and co-packers.
• Problem-solving on portfolio and business challenges to scope project solutions that can optimize and unlock commercial opportunities, and finding ways to accelerate timelines or find new solutions to bring them to life
• Building strong partnerships with our sales, trade marketing, S&OP and away from home teams to navigate portfolio changes across internal & external stakeholders
• Supporting to design the strategic roadmap for our future portfolio and innovation pipeline, to deliver our market share and innovation delivery ambitions that accelerate our Heinz brand growth across the Eastern European region

Qualifications

Hard Skills

• At least a bachelor's degree
• At least 2 years relevant experience in marketing, project management or related field, ideally within consumer products
• Strong organizational skills and ability to proven track record of successfully managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Ownership mindset, push to learn through new challenges and building capability to drive results and lead independently
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Collaborative mindset and people skills; working alongside a broad range of functions to facilitate alignments, information sharing and approvals
• Consumer understanding and ability to translate market trends and insights into portfolio and innovation workstreams, or to inform creative decision making
• Fluent in English.
• Excellent Excel and Presentation (PowerPoint) Skills

Professional Attributes

• Communication Skills
• At Kraft Heinz you'll easily be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it's important you have excellent communication skills, to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.
• Commercial Sense
• You don't only want to win; you hate to lose. You're always seeking for opportunities to unlock new growth opportunities or optimize our existing ways of operating, while over delivering your targets.
• Analytical
• We're a very data driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution with your analytical mindset.
• High pressure
• You don't get easily stressed by pressure, on the opposite, a demanding and dynamic environment is what keeps you energized.
• Result driven
• You don't only focus on your own results, but always do what's best for the company.
• Team player
• Achieving results is nice, but achieving results with the team is simply the best. You're a team player, which means you're sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.

What we offer you

• An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you;
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
• Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know and we can set it in action!

Location

Amsterdam

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.