**Company Description** At METRO, we’re more than a global food wholesaler. We are ONE METRO: a diverse team of over 84,000 colleagues across 34 countries, united by one mission: enabling our 15 million customers to create meaningful moments in hospitality and independent trade. We shape the M with passion, commitment, and growth mindset. This means taking on responsibility, making our company your company and creating a business together that remains true to its roots but always seeks new solutions. **Job Description** As **Senior Transformation Delivery Manager (all genders)**, you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic change across the organization. We are seeking a highly motivated leader with strong analytical skills and a hands-on mindset – someone who will be responsible for steering the delivery of high-impact initiatives within one of Europe’s largest and most critical transformation programs. What does this mean? You will help shape and establish a new **Transformation Delivery Center of Excellence** with the mandate to deliver complex transformation initiatives that enable our long-term strategy, ensuring alignment across functions and geographies. This role requires exceptional stakeholder management and the ability to navigate multifaceted challenges while maintaining an unwavering focus on results and impact. **Your responsibilities:** - **Project Leadership:** Drive the successful execution of high-priority transformation projects across the group. - **Strategy & Development:** Help shape the new Transformation Delivery Center of Excellence – the central engine behind the implementation of some of the group’s highest-priority transformation initiatives. - **Accountability:** Take ownership of high-impact, group-wide transformation projects to ensure delivery with minimal value leakage. - **Advisory & Stakeholder Management:** Act as a sparring partner to functional leaders and senior project stakeholders, ensuring delivery of expected impacts and proactively overcoming roadblocks. - **Resource Management:** Steer project resources (e.g., project managers, analysts) to ensure robust tracking, transparency, and disciplined progress management. - **Reporting:** Report directly to the Head of Transformation within the newly established Transformation Delivery Center of Excellence. **Qualifications** **Your profile:** - **Experience:** 4+ years of professional experience, preferably in fast-paced environments such as Consulting, Private Equity, or Banking. - **Project Leadership:** Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, cross-functional projects. - **Functional Expertise:** Functional expertise in commercial areas of wholesale/retail (e.g., supply chain, category management) is a strong plus. - **Education:** University degree in Business, Economics, or a related field from a reputable institution. - **Skills & Competencies:** Strong alignment with our Metro Fundamentals: entrepreneurial, hands-on, and results-driven; high confidence and affinity working with data – from challenging business cases to interpreting company P&Ls; well-honed program and project management skills with the ability to remain calm, structured, and focused in complex, uncertain, and fast-moving environments; excellent communicator with the ability to create compelling storylines and present to senior leaders across the group. - **Location & Languages:** Based in Düsseldorf or willingness to relocate, with openness to occasional international travel depending on project needs; fluent in English; German is a plus. **Additional Information** **What we offer:** - **Work-life balance:** Flexible working hours with the option of mobile working in agreement with your line manager, 30 days of holidays. - **Training:** A comprehensive training offer via our own training center or externally. - **Well-being:** Health days with lots of health checks and information about your well-being, company medical care including a range of preventive services, such as flu shots, OTHEB employee assistance program. - **Exciting life on campus:** Free gym and sports classes, Rioba coffee bar, canteen with discounted meals for employees, many campus events. - **Discounts:** discounted Jobticket as well as discounts in our wholesale stores and at many partner companies. - **Comfort:** Good transport connections, free parking spaces, JobBike. - **Company pension plan:** You will receive a contribution to your company pension. - **Family driven:** Three daycare centers for children on campus, support of holiday camps for children of employees.

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