Head of Project Management and Chief of Staff

Achieve strategic advertising ambitions with high-impact results

Retail media has developed into one of our primary strategic pillars, and we intend to maximize its potential. The ambitions are clear, and the programs to get us there are in place, but their impact can be amplified by someone who maintains an objective overview and sets the right priorities. As the Head of Project Management & Chief of Staff, you strengthen the do-main’s execution power. You lead the project management team and, as Chief of Staff, work directly alongside the Chief Advertising Officer to make the Advertising MT sharper, more agile, and more results-oriented. In an organization where multiple strategic initiatives always unfold concurrently, and stakeholder interests can collide, you are the great connector and impact driver.

• Utrecht
• Bachelor / Master
• 8.473-10.592
• 10+ year

The biggest challenge

Creating and preserving focus in an organization that wants - and needs - to accelerate on multiple fronts at once. You claim ownership of capacity, priorities, and investments. And you ensure promising plans are executed successfully. That makes for a highly varied role. One day you’re working on a complex transformation program that spans multiple domains. The next, you’re facilitating a critical MT meeting. And on day three, you’re zooming in on evolving our PM capabilities.

What you will do as Head of Project Management and Chief of Staff

You work in a dual role, with the healthy tension that entails. As the Head of Project Manage-ment, you report to the Director of Operations and Data, and are a member of the Advertising MT. As the Chief of Staff, you work alongside the Chief Advertising Officer. You move between operations and the boardroom, between transformation programs and team building, between hard data and the human side of change leadership. While your contribution is essential in getting projects across the finish line, you don’t zoom in on minutia of individual projects. Your impact is in cultivating focus, alignment, and execution power.
That calls for strong leadership, proven strategy execution, and organizational effectiveness. How should we prioritize objectives to maximize our impact with the available capacity? What’s the most cost-effective route? You help the organization make data-driven decisions to set priorities, track progress, and realize value. In short, you understand how to translate an “abstract” strategy into concrete execution steps and can weigh and unite diverging interests -up to the C-suite- without losing focus on the results.

• Developing project management capability that structurally strengthens the organization
• Coaching, developing, and inspiring project managers
• Facilitating complex programs that span multiple domains
• Facilitating effective MT meetings with clear priorities and ownership
• Supporting quarterly, annual, and strategic planning cycles
• Effectively steering decision-making, value realization, and progress

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

Foundation builder

You enjoy structuring teams and ways of working to strengthen the organization.

Commitment cultivator

You bring stakeholders with different interests together and find the right path to achieve shared goals.

Value realization thinker

You don’t measure success by activity and effort, but by value realization and impact.

Pure project administrator

For you, project management begins and ends with status updates, planning, and reports.

Archenemy of ambiguity

You wait for all the information before making decisions or even contemplating a direction.

Lone expert

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Letting your success depend on colleagues is unthinkable.

Where you'll be working

You’ll land at Advertising, one of bol’s most strategically crucial domains. Retail media moves fast: new propositions, new technology, and new ways of working are the rule, not the exception. The setting is ambitious and substantive, with visible impact on how the domain operates, scales, and creates value for 14 million customers, 43,300 partners, and a vast number of advertisers. You report to the Director of Operations and Data and work directly with the Chief Advertising Officer, the MT (welcome aboard), and the project management team. Do you have a strong view on the growth of Advertising, ideally backed by a persuasive track record, and the composure to achieve results in a complex, ambiguous setting? We’d love to meet you.

We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day. Our annual bonus is tied to sustainability goals.

Perks of having a blue heart

29 days to recharge

Travel costs
Public transport, car, parking & charging covered

Pension plan
75% premium covered

Annual bonus
Based on sustainability goals