Senior Project Manager

A few words about us:

Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, our global team of 6,500 professionals in more than 60 offices help brands unlock value in a digitally accelerated world. At the intersection of insights and perspectives, we leverage the power of data, AI, creativity, and technology to achieve experience innovation for many of the world’s best-known organisations, including L’Oreal, NatWest, DWP, P&G, Volkswagen, and US department of Agriculture.

From discovery to optimization, clients trust Valtech to remove complexity and deliver innovative, frictionless solutions that close the experience gap between customer expectation and reality. 

The Role:

As a Senior Project Manager at Valtech you will balance strategic planning, delivery management and hands-on problem-solving on a daily basis. You will understand the business of the client and design and execute a strategy focused on achieving their goals. In this role, you will be part of a team of diverse digital natives working collaboratively to deliver customer centric digital transformation solutions.

If you are based in the Netherlands and can work hybrid from our brand-new, award-winning, eco-friendly office in Utrecht and a couple of days from home, then this could be the opportunity for you. Valtech is a client-centric business and there will be plenty of opportunities to meet with customers at their Netherlands-based offices.

What you will be doing:

• You will be responsible for defining the project scope, objectives and managing the delivery of complex digital design and build projects for a diverse range of customers.

• You will guide our clients through their digital transformation journey by developing detailed project plans, timelines, budgets and aligning their strategies to their business goals. 

• You will proactively manage risks, identify blockers in delivery and take actions to resolve and escalate issues that may occur.

• You will ensure the governance for the project is in place and monitor and report on delivery burndown and financial spend.

• You will lead the project and will be the glue for our internal development teams and our customer stakeholders.

Essential Experience:

• You are someone with extensive (at least 5-7 years) of experience in the field of agile project management and the delivery of digital solutions.
  
• You have experience in client facing project manager roles and the ability to work with C-level stakeholders on complex multi layered projects.
  
• You are someone who always sees the bigger picture and can talk strategy, branding, design and development.
  
• You can proven experience in leading, coaching, and inspiring multidisciplinary teams including developers, business analysts, QA and creatives.
  
• You think from the end user perspective and have experience running B2C and B2B customer first solutions.
  
• You bring fluency in English and Dutch.
  
• You have experience in Scrum and Agile processes and knowledge of other methodologies like Scaled Agile, Kanban and Lean methodologies.
  
• A flexible mindset and a hands-on mentality with the ability to switch between strategic topics and operational interventions.
  
• Ideally experience with e-commerce solutions and DXP platforms such as Adobe, Sitecore or Optimizely.
  

Meet the team:

In this role you will be working with a cross functional nearshore and local development team. Internally this will be made up of everyone needed to deliver a complex digital solution. Critically to this role you will be working closely with our customers' stakeholders at every stage of the delivery.

What can you expect from us:

Link to regional benefits summary page.

• A competitive salary
• 25 days holidays with the possibility to buy up to 10 additional days of holiday per calendar year
• Holiday allowance
• A work laptop and mobile phone
• Subsidized office lunch
• Travel allowance - an NS Business card

Apart from the benefits listed above, we have more to offer. Our growth development program, for example, to help you excel in your existing profession, or enable you to explore another. Also, there are plenty of internal initiatives for you to take part in. Whether it's about improving Valtech as a business or contributing to the world around us, we encourage our employees to pursue their professional and personal ambitions.

At Valtech, we’re here to engineer experiences that work and reach every single person. To do this, we are proactive about creating workplaces that work for every person at Valtech. Our goal is to create an equitable workplace which gives people from all backgrounds the support they need to thrive, grow and meet their goals (whatever they may be). You can find out more about what we’re doing to create a Valtech for everyone here.

Please do not worry if you do not meet all of the criteria or if you have some gaps in your CV. We’d love to hear from you and see if you’re our next member of the Valtech team!

Join Valtech

Not only can you help us lead the experience revolution, but you can lead the change. The journey Valtech is on is ambitious and therefore opens doors. The more we grow – the more opportunities there are to take responsibility, implement your creative ideas, and be the innovator and driver to help move us, and our clients, forward.

Does it excite you to join Valtech on this journey? And would you like to become our next Senior Project Manager?

Then apply today. We cannot wait to hear from you!

 Valtech är en digital partner som med kreativitet, teknik och lättrörliga arbetssätt gör våra kunder bättre.

Vi samlar olika specialister under ett och samma tak och ungefär två tredjedelar av våra konsulter har sina rötter i tekniken medan en tredjedel fokuserar på strategi, upplevelse och design. Vår kompetensbredd gör att vi har muskler att hjälpa våra kunder med ett helhetsperspektiv – från idéstadie till lansering, och även med att vidareutveckla tjänsterna därefter. 

Våra medarbetare kommer från världens alla hörn, vilket innebär att vi kan ta lärdom av varandra och du kan alltid hitta någon att connecta med och lära dig mer av. Valtech grundades i Frankrike 1993 och har funnits i Sverige sedan 1999. Globalt har Valtech verksamheter i totalt 15 länder (45 kontor) och 3 500+ anställda medarbetare globalt. I Sverige är vi cirka 280 anställda som sitter i fantastiska lokaler i Kungliga Myntet vid Stadshuset i Stockholm samt på Kyrkogatan i Göteborg.

Hurdana är vi då, vi som jobbar på Valtech? Som individer är vi nog ganska olika - från vår erfarenhet vet vi att homogena grupper inte alltid presterar bäst. Och i grupp arbetar vi nästan alltid! Även om vi på Valtech är olika som människor är det desto mer som förenar oss. Först och främst är vi passionerade i det vi gör.

Tveka inte att kontakta oss om du har några frågor, eller bara vill komma förbi på en kopp kaffe och prata om dina passioner!