If you're someone who has a genuine desire to help people live better and healthier lives, join us as we work to be a trusted resource in our communities, offering real people, real food at real affordable prices across the Midwest. If you are ready to immerse yourself in an environment, that helps shoppers naturally, intuitively, and enjoyably find real, honest, affordable goodness to meet them wherever they are on their wellness journey, we'd like to hear from you. Join us to begin YOUR journey and be a part of the Fresh Thyme Market Team!
Fresh Thyme Rewards
Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Team member discount
Career growth opportunities
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*Hybrid Schedule offered: Monday-Wednesday in-office, Thursday-Friday flexible/remote days.*.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Partners across all levels of Marketing and business partners at the onset of a project, and throughout, to understand the scope, allocate appropriate internal/external resources, and define a critical path forward.
Manages Creative team workloads + schedules.
Facilitates all Agile meetings for the Fresh Thyme Marketing Team, including Planning, Backlog Refinement + Stand-Ups.
Ensures Fresh Thyme Marketing Team remains focused on and delivers against daily/iteration goals, specific to PI objectives.
Leads Fresh Thyme Marketing Team during Marketing Train events, including PI Planning every 10 weeks.
Partners with Manager, Marketing Operations (Meijer) to increase effectiveness and efficiency by driving process improvements across the Fresh Thyme Marketing department.
Processes all job requests and initial project information.
Ensures that requested projects have necessary leadership approvals, prior to kick-off.
Coordinates the initial detail and information needed to start each project and assigns to appropriate team members.
Aids in organizing people, tasks, project timelines, production and resolving issues.
Successfully supports multiple projects at any given time.
Maintains proper documentation and files for reference and resource.
Defines and manages project risks with input from stakeholders, elevates risks and facilitates resolutions.
Owns monitoring and maintaining begin to end schedules for each project.
Owns and operates daily within project management tools, including Microsoft's Azure DevOps (VSTS), Ziflow, Miro and Wrike.
Creates and facilitates all VSTS training sessions for team members, including the development and maintenance of the "VSTS Best Practices Guide" for the Marketing Agile Train (Meijer + Fresh Thyme).
Effectively communicates deadlines, volume and resource utilization as well as risks.
Collaborates with Manager, Marketing Operations (Meijer) and Fresh Thyme Marketing Campaigns Manager to evaluate projects and team member successes and failures for leadership evaluation.
Develops relationships with agency and internal customers to earn respect and trust while managing large campaigns, and monitoring agency responsibilities.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills
Bachelor's degree
3-5 years of experience in project management.
Possesses strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to be an empathetic listener and effective communicator.
Able to work cross-functionally across business areas, with all levels of Fresh Thyme and Meijer team members, project leads, leadership and vendor partners.
Familiarity with Lean-Agile principles, including understanding of the "Scrum Master" role within an Agile Train.
Professionally represents the Fresh Thyme + Meijer Marketing departments internally and externally.
Possesses strong planning and tracking/controlling skills.
Ability to think critically, plan long-term and react short-term.
Ability to juggle multiple tasks.
Possesses exceptional organizational skills + ability to manage details.
Ability to lead peers, including through ambiguous situations.
Possesses strong customer service orientation and skills.
Possesses excellent written, verbal and oral communication skills.
Ability to work with Microsoft Office Tools.