Germany Lead Project Manager

Hungry for a challenge?

That’s good, because at Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) we have abundant opportunity or as we say, everything is on the table. We are a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe.

Our mission? To empower every food moment around the world, whether it’s through customer service, coding or couriers.

About this role:

Our Global Marketing Operations team is formed of a superb team of delivery, change and planning specialists. As a lead in this team, there is a huge opportunity to influence and develop our German-specific processes, alongside delivering some very exciting work.

As the Lead Project Manager supporting our German marketing team, you will develop systems to drive efficiency into our ways of working and enable the team to deliver their key campaigns. Projects will vary from delivering key initiatives, planning and improving processes between marketing and other teams such as the commercial or sales teams. This is a brand-new role, and so we are looking for someone who is up to the challenge of building out an approach that enables our market to deliver success.

As a Marketing Operations team, we support our Global Marketing function in total, so there will also be opportunity to deliver broader process improvements that influence the Global function and connect to the German marketing team.

Following our growth as Just Eat Takeaway.com, our project and programme specialists now have an even wider scope. Your aim is to build good relationships with colleagues across the organisation, improving processes to help us deliver exceptional creative work.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Develop, oversee and streamline marketing project workflows, ensuring efficiency in planning, execution, and delivery for the German team
• Delivers priority marketing campaigns end-to-end from strategy development, creative concepting to production and delivery
• Work closely with German heads of department to ensure projects align and are prioritised with company goals and German market strategies
• Provide stakeholder management across a number of functions including marketing channel specialists, local marketing experts, brand marketing, commercial areas of the business and external agencies
• Collaborate and contribute to the wider Marketing Operations team to share learnings and resource support across programme
• Track progress of projects, and identify potential risks and proactively implement solutions to keep deliverables on track
• Oversees the marketing calendar and keeps German stakeholders updated on a monthly weekly basis
• Ensure necessary reporting and retrospectives are in place to gather insights and implement continuous improvement
• Reports into the Principal UK & DE Programme Lead

What will you bring to the table?

• Preferably a native German speaker
• 6-8 years’ experience in a project management role, preferably within a FTSE100 food delivery or digital/tech-based business
• Experience in change management and implementing changes
• Proven ability to manage complex marketing projects from inception to completion.
• Strong understanding of marketing workflows, including creative production, multi-channel marketing, and campaign execution
• Senior stakeholder management and ability to build strong relationships
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Working knowledge of project management software, e.g. JIRA, Trello
• PMP, Agile, or similar project management certification is a plus

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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