ARLA - Project Manager for The Barn, Aarhus, Denmark

Do you have what it takes to ensure effective and timely project management? To ensure delivery on digital marketing content for global and local brands? Join Arla Foods’ digital in-house agency, The Barn.

The Barn, was created to help global and local brands win in a world of increasing media complexity. Today, we have a strong team specializing in campaign development and digital asset creation, strategy and planning, analytics, media buying, tech & data. As our new Project Manager, you will be playing a central part in our agency operations setup.

About the job 

Reporting into our Head of Agency Operations, you will work directly with our brands in The Barn. Together with your colleagues you’ll be handling project request, gathering requirements, defining scope, deliverables and delivery dates, planning, managing and briefing resources, managing budgets and developing a clear and actionable project plan. You will also play a key role in further developing our internal agency setup in terms of processes and tools supporting our development process from brief to execution. You will work closely together with teams across all functions, but especially teaming up with our account management team and producers.

Common tasks and responsibility:

• Overall responsible for the project process  from start to finish, making sure the project is on brief, on budget and delivered on time
• Effectively lead and clearly communicate overall campaign timelines, project deliverables, and resourcing needs towards both clients and internal team, ensuring effective exchange of information and deliverables
• Doing effective resource management, navigate contending priorities, allocate resources appropriately, and mitigate associated challenges
• Together with your colleagues in the Account Management team drive our yearly planning process in the barn
• Driving and facilitating cross team work as well as internal learning loops incl project evaluation
• Support and further develop our internal agency setup and processes incl. tools
• Contribute to and further develop our great barn culture

Who are you? 

The right candidate is a natural born problem solver, and have prior experience within an advertising agency. You know how to build campaigns and understands what it takes from a creative perspective. You know how to strike the balance between hard deadlines and budgets and fostering engagement and a creative culture. It is therefore important that you possess solid people skills and know how to communicate effectively with both specialists and management. Great communication and stakeholder management skills are crucial as you, together with our account management team, will be the point of contact for our brands handling requests from brands, anticipate and interpret desired outcome and help both the brand and our team navigate in a common direction.

Last, but not least, you are proficient in verbal and written English, possess excellent presentation skills and work seamlessly with PowerPoint and excel.

You hold the following qualifications: 

• 3+ years’ agency experience (could come from a digital agency, advertising agency, media agency or inhouse agency)

• Excellent project management, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Self-starting, flexible, highly organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and has the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
• Yes-we-can attitude!

What do we offer? 

The Barn is where digital media and content meet, and you will be an anchor point of all activities in the agency. You will be working with Art Directors, Digital Designers, Copywriters, Brand Managers, Producers, Media Buyers and many more. You will have tremendous exposure to many different colleagues and the opportunity to broaden your network and digital understanding even further.  

You will join a diverse team of passionate, highly ambitious and professional creatives that are pushing to build a world class digital agency and production power house. The office vibe is casual with an entrepreneurial spirit and a professional mindset.

Sounds good? Please apply as soon as possible as we will be waiting for your application and close once we have found the right candidate. If you have questions, please contact Head of Agency Operations Anne Gottfredsen at anngo@arlafoods.com.

Apply online: Project Manager for The Barn, Arla - Aarhus, Denmark

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?