Project Manager

(Fulltime / Part-time, 32/38 hours per week)

As a Project Manager, you will drive key projects that impact our marketing and business strategy. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects within scope, budget, and timeline, working closely with cross-functional teams. Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, you will play a critical role in optimizing project performance while aligning with business objectives.
 

This is your daily action

As a Project Manager, you are a key member of the Marketing & Format team, ensuring that projects align with business priorities and drive impactful results. You define project scope and objectives, manage timelines, resources, and budgets, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute projects efficiently. Your role requires strong stakeholder engagement, fostering collaboration across departments to achieve successful project outcomes.

You proactively identifying potential challenges and implementing mitigation strategies. Tracking and reporting project performance is a crucial part of your role, providing insights and recommendations to senior management to enhance decision-making.

You facilitate seamless project handovers, providing documentation and training to support business integration. Beyond execution, you drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency in project management.
 

This is you

A strategic and execution-driven project manager who thrives in fast-paced environments. You are an effective communicator, capable of engaging stakeholders and leading teams toward successful outcomes. You bring a structured approach to project management while remaining flexible to changing priorities. Your problem-solving mindset allows you to navigate challenges, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and effectively.

In addition:

• University degree (preferably in Marketing or a related field)
• At least 3-5 years of relevant project management experience (preferably within retail, or tech sector)
• Strong understanding of product marketing, consumer trends, and strategic project execution
• Experience in agile project management, balancing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to align stakeholders
• Performance-driven mindset with a track record of delivering impactful projects
• Excellent command of Dutch and English (both oral and written)
   

Meet your team

With tens of millions of fans across Europe, we keep surprising them week after week. We are constantly expanding the Action brand using a data-driven approach and by working in agile teams. In Marketing and Digital, we are responsible for the marketing and communication strategy and its execution. We are building more and more digital visibility and interaction. From customer surveys to designing our award-winning leaflet in our own Action Studio, and from private labeling to webcare, the app, and social media campaigns. Our biggest challenge is One Breath, One Format, online and in more than 2,500 stores in 13 different countries. Learning new things every day and working with the nicest colleagues to make our popular brand even more successful is what makes us happy. You too?

What we offer

Surprisingly much! From our international headquarters in the Netherlands you have an impact on what happens in our stores across Europe. We welcome more than 15 million customers every week in more than 2,500 stores in 13 European countries. We have great growth ambitions. For Action and for you. Because our growth means that you can always take new steps. A different position, an interesting innovation project, new skills: you can continue to develop as a professional. And all this in a culture where our shared values are truly lived: customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost conscious and respect.

Did you know that you can also count on us for:

• A market-based salary based on a 38-hour work week
• An annual bonus between 5 and 10% based on company and personal performance
• 24 days of holiday and the option to buy 5 extra days (based on 38 hours per week)
• A temporary contract with the intention of offering you a permanent contract in the long term
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of working up to 40% from home, of course in coordination with your team and manager
• 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action 
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and mobility allowance (Zwaagdijk-Oost is traffic jam-free and only 30 minutes by car from Amsterdam)
   

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you come and work with us. We work hard to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor more than 2,500 children worldwide who grow up in an SOS Children's Village? That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 155 different nationalities? That we purchase 94% of our wood products and 100% of our cotton sustainably? And that almost all our stores only use energy-efficient LED lighting? Yes, that is also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we’re facilitating? Join our team and find out for yourself.
 

Interested?

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who recognises themselves in the vacancy to apply. So, take action and respond to this vacancy now!

What happens next:

1. Response to your application within 14 days (and usually earlier)
2. First meeting with the manager and a colleague
3. Second interview with your recruiter, among others
4. Welcome to Action…

Throughout the process, your recruiter Isabel Guerresi is your permanent point of contact and is available to answer any questions you may have.

Integrity is very important to us. Pre-employment screening is therefore part of the process for this vacancy. Ask your recruiter for more information.