Digital Project Manager Omnichannel Sales (Remote)

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. We are a diverse company with over 35,000 employees in almost 50 countries.

As the branded leader in lenses, we offer premium and pioneering products; innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our brand enhances the lives and vision of millions of people around the world. In fact, 2 people every second put their trust in ZEISS lenses.

We are proud of our heritage and have been at the forefront of scientific discovery and innovation since our creation in 1846. We are a foundation; this means we reinvest 12% of our revenue to fund research and education, supporting progress within the optical industry and across the community.

We are more successful today than we have ever been, having celebrated double digit growth for the past ten years. We‘re not stopping here because we are focused on accelerating our growth even further, aiming to double our revenue by 2025.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Carl Zeiss Vision International are recruiting a Digital Project Manager to work within the Global Marketing Function. The Project Management team support the Global Marketing Function across the respective portfolios, with the initial demand for this vacancy within the Digital Business Transformation Team, who are conducting a programme to transform digital customer and consumer interfaces across all country markets within the Vision business.

The projects in this programme are strategic, and therefore have a high business impact and visibility at board level. As a result, we are recruiting for a project manager with experience of digital platform rollout projects.

This job role will work within projects that make up the DBT programme to manage the development and rollout activities to the next priority markets and to implement the global support concept for the digital solution that is being rolled out.

Key Requirements of the role include:

• Define a project’s scope and deliverables
• Leading global, cross-functional project teams in a matrix organisation
• Foster clear and direct communication across the entire project team
• Leverage international perspectives for best project results
• Resource planning and allocation
• Managing project within time, quality and cost parameters
• Appropriately apply methodologies to projects and deliverables, with variable levels of requirement maturity and embrace change to deliver maximum value
• Managing project risks and issues
• Stakeholder management
• Project reporting
• Benefit realisation

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Must have:

• Experience of delivering projects, applying project management methodologies, tools and techniques appropriately
• Capable of distilling complex concepts into succinct and understandable formats
• Comfortable working in remote and hybrid teams, with a willingness and ability to travel

Desirable:

• Proven experience of successful stakeholder management
• Project management qualification and experience in global projects
• Experience working within IT service delivery
• Experience working with authentication systems
• Demonstrated ability to deliver IT projects within a global organisation
• Familiarity working with a UX-focussed approach
• Degree qualified

OUR BENEFITS

• 10% Employer pension contribution (providing a 4% employee contribution).
• Bonus scheme.
• Private BUPA healthcare for you and your family
• Life assurance.
• Professional body subscription paid for by ZEISS.
• 25 Days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing with service.
• Free ZEISS lenses for you and discounted ZEISS lenses for your friends and family.
• Employee health and well-being programme including premium access to the Calm app.

Terms and conditions apply to all benefits