Marketing Technology Manager

Short company description

We’re AD/01, part of Ahold Delhaize, an innovation hub serving 9 countries and catering to more than 10 million shoppers daily.

As big fans of innovation, we like technology where we can see it, on our plates. Our mission is to help people live better lives, enhancing their daily food and shopping experiences. Moreover, we aim to revolutionize the food retail industry through cutting-edge technology, we want to solve real challenges, whether it's refining the supply chain management, improving digital customer interactions, or creating seamless customer journeys from order to delivery.

We are the studio that builds the future of food retail.

Requirements

Requirements.

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you can meet the following requirements:

A bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in marketing or a related field.
Between 5 and 10 years of experience in leading transformation projects, particularly in marketing technology, in large corporate or global organizations (preferably within retail).
Experience guiding cross-functional teams through transformational change.
Strong understanding of the martech landscape and ability to see the bigger picture in digital marketing.
Hands-on experience with martech tools (e.g., Google Marketing Platform) and the ability to guide others in their use.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience navigating complex relationships with both internal and external partners.
A proactive and structured approach to managing transformation projects, ensuring timely delivery of strategic goals.

It goes without saying that so-called ‘soft skills’ are just as important as their ‘hard’ cousins. We highly value:

Outspoken communication skills and a proactive approach.
Enthusiasm and a great sense of responsibility will take you far.
Team player; involves others, shares knowledge and seeks opportunities for cross functional working and collaboration.
Adaptable to situations and different/multicultural environments
Excellent command of the English language both written & spoken

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities of your role.

Lead transformation projects focused on marketing technology (martech), providing leadership and coaching to local teams across multiple European brands.
Focus on coaching and mentoring local teams to adopt and optimize new technologies, while enabling them to handle the technical aspects independently.
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring digital marketing, IT, and analytics teams work effectively together to leverage martech solutions for business success.
Drive innovation and experimentation in martech solutions, ensuring new technologies are piloted, tested, and scaled across local teams.
Manage the broader transformation process, ensuring strategic alignment with the company's objectives and empowering teams to make data-driven, innovative decisions.
Lead Marketing partner management activities, contract renewals and financials.
Drive Marketing Platform governance and Identity & Access Management activities.
Empower teams to adopt martech solutions and foster collaboration and innovation across teams.
Act as the strategic coach and guide for local teams, ensuring the broader vision is being realized through day-to-day execution.
Mentor less mature teams, supporting their development and helping them become more self-sufficient in handling marketing technology implementations.
Balance technical solutions with strategic marketing goals, ensuring the overall transformation process aligns with Ahold Delhaize's vision and objectives.
Collaboration is key in your role, as you partner with digital channel owners, media specialists and analytics teams across our brands and internal teams. Together, you ensure that the Marketing solutions are being used effectively, and are creating value for our customers and our company. You will spearhead innovation and experimentation in the domain, being the linking pin between marketing and technology teams. You collaborate with Google’s account teams, brands, legal experts, IT teams, and other stakeholders to ensure the timely renewal and execution of contracts.

Other info

If you’re excited to help us grow, then please apply now. If you feel like you might not tick all the boxes but have the skills and personality we’re looking for, then please also apply now!

For us, diversity means being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more. We accept everyone for who they are.