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Summary:

Meta Reality Labs brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software and content. We are building tools and experiences that make people feel closer together in Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality (VR/MR/AR) and the Metaverse (Horizon Worlds). We are introducing new products and creating new categories in retail, doing things that haven't been done before. This role requires someone experienced, with a collaborative logical mindset, to solve new problems quickly and deliver efficiently.We are looking for an Experienced Project Manager to drive the planning, design, production sell-in, coordination and implementation of EU Retail displays and experiential programmes. The role acts a linchpin joining up internal cross functional partners and driving projects with our agencies and retailers partners.

Required Skills:

Physical Merchandising Project Manager - EMEA Responsibilities:

1. Drive the delivery of design, campaign, physical and technical elements of retail experience and long-term furniture programmes

2. Create partnerships with country and EMEA Marketing Managers, Country Channel Leads, Field Marketing Managers, internal creative teams and external retail creative agencies

3. Act as liaison between global fixture vendor partners, retail creative agencies and internal cross-functional partners on any asset related issues that arise

4. Drive campaign-oriented retail experience programmes, involving temporary pop-up initiative that will evolve and scale over the coming years

5. Build and optimise systems, tools and standards that improve creative production within the organisation

6. Co-ordinate the wider team to ensure successful communication and delivery of various product launches across Retail

7. Utilize internal tools to manage payment activity. Prepare and manage spend tracking documents

8. Work on internal process development to drive efficiencies across a broad scope of programme related activity

9. Organise vendor partner collaboration calls weekly to track and update progress ensuring all deadline dates are on track

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

10. 8+ years client-facing project management experience within a creative agency, large production studio and/or client-side within large organizations in a related field

11. Be able to speak English, French, Spanish and Italian to enable liason with in-market contacts and retailers

12. Proven track record in project management as it would relate to physical retail programmes - CPAs, stakeholder management, design project process management from creative through to implementation for 2D and 3D activity

13. Extensive experience working directly with Southern European Retailers (French, Spanish and Italian) and ideally other EMEA retail partners

14. Experience in complex cross-functional project planning and collaboration, navigating various organisational environments

15. Creative operations experience in setting priorities, problem-solving, multi-tasking, and negotiation

16. Experience of creating and maintaining project trackers across multiple programs and stakeholders

17. Clear understanding and experience of working on retail fixture production and implementation. Experience of Retail environment as a whole

18. High level of accuracy and attention to detail, able to detect inconsistencies and errors

19. Experience managing budgets through the full cycle of activity

Industry: Internet