Associate Project Manager

Full Time
Toronto, ON, Canada
9 months ago
About the role

Location: 110 Spadina Ave

Schedule: Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Take on end-to-end responsibilities for managing Operations projects with high impact within HelloFresh Canada. These projects can include enabling the launch of a new product, managing software or tool implementations, and improving and redesigning supply chain processes.

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

  • Project Management: Own the end-to-end management of high-impact Operations projects with weekly support from SPMO leadership. Responsibilities include planning and launching projects, applying the appropriate project management practices and tools to optimize project delivery, managing cross-functional stakeholders to collect their inputs and ensure their commitment to the project,  and closing out projects and transitioning ownership of key activities/deliverables back to the business.
  • Strategic & Business Management: Seek appropriate organizational expertise to understand the essential business impacts of a projects, define measurable project objectives that are inline with HelloFresh’s business goals, develop a tailored project delivery strategies, and ensure business and strategic alignment through project delivery
  • Stakeholder Management: For each project, identify impacted stakeholders and develop an approach for involving relevant stakeholders.  Proactively and diligently involve stakeholders to ensure project commitments are met. Take a long-term view in managing relationships with stakeholders by building trust, addressing concerns, balancing competing priorities, and effectively applying persuasion/negotiation/compromise. Motivate teams and drive positivity on projects.
  • Problem Solving & Analysis: Understand and solve complex people, process, and tech problems that stretch over multiple parts of the business. Analyze and present data in order to provide solid recommendations for the project to the senior leadership team

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

  • 1+ years of project management experience (at least 2-3 years of overall work experience, including 1-2 years of individual contributor experience, preferably in a technical capacity)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in in Business, Management, Engineering, Computer Science or related fields
  • Experience in waterfall and/or agile project management methodologies. PMP and Agile Scrum Master certification is a plus
  • Lean, software development, database principles and knowledge and experience preferred
  • A quick learner, able to work within multiple programs, processes, and deliverables and find the right solution to every problem
  • Able to work independently in the highly structured and conscientious manner
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to effectively build relationships and collaborate with individuals at all organizational levels, from frontline staff to senior executives
  • A team player with a growth mindset, holding the team’s reputation and goals in highest regard
  • Experience with solving operational problems and proficiency in with problem-solving methodologies
  • Always open to improvement and possess the flexibility to pivot to address business needs
  • Has a heavy bias towards action

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

  • Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box
  • Health & Wellness -Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, and unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs.
  • Vacation & PTO -Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance. 
  • Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents
  • WFH Allowance - A one time fund to help you set up or improve your home office 
  • Growth & Development - We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund
  • Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to HQ Wellness Wednesdays, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
  • Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like HelloChange and Women Empowerment, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts
  • Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience. 

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

Working Conditions

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.