Program Manager
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Job Summary
Job description
About Aquablu
Aquablu is building the worlds largest adaptive hydration platform. We combine connected hardware software and data to change how people drink water: starting at work and expanding to everywhere people spend their day. Were live across 16 countries backed by leading investors and scaling fast.
Were now building our next chapter: a company-wide program that runs through commercial marketing product and operations at once. The milestones are locked. The plan that connects them isnt built yet.
Thats the job.
The Role
You run a workgroup of discipline leads and report to Chief of Staff and CEO. You own the plan the meeting cadence and dependency and risk tracking across every function. The product isnt yours. Everything that has to line up around it is.
Plan. Build the high-level plan around locked milestones
Enablement. Work hands-on with each lead to turn their workstream into a clear roadmap with milestones in Asana. You make plans legible not just tracked.
Cadence. Run the steering rhythm: set each meetings focus decide who needs to be in the room force decisions that have stalled.
Dependencies. Track cross-functional dependencies and risks. Escalate early without drama.
Decisions. Ensure relevant decisions are made on time documented and followed up on.
Who You Are
Youve taken a proposition to market end-to-end: aligning commercial marketing ops and product.
Commercially literate. You hold your own in a pricing marketing or channel discussion.
Senior enough to push heads of department. Hands-on enough to sit down and build the roadmap with them.
Fluent in Asana or a comparable work management tool. You set the structure others follow.
You create structure in ambiguity. If you need a defined scope to start this isnt your role.
Scale-up pace. Decisions in days not steering-committee cycles.
Incredibly organized an excellent stakeholder manager and communicator
What Were Looking For
5 years in program or project management including at least 3 leading cross-functional or company-wide initiatives.
A track record of taking a product or proposition to market end-to-end across commercial marketing product and operations.
Direct experience managing planning cadence and escalation with C-level.
Advanced working knowledge of Asana or a comparable work management tool (Monday Jira Wrike).
Fluent in English. Dutch is a plus.
Based in or able to work hybrid from Amsterdam. (4 days per week in the office)
Available to start immediately.
Prior experience in a scale-up or high-growth environment.
What We Offer
26 paid holiday days
A salary between 71-96k yearly (based on full-time 40 hrs)
High percentage of Equity through our Aquablu for All plan everyone shares in what were building
Beautiful and bright office in Amsterdam (Houthavens).
Healthy (heavily discounted) lunches
Urban Sports Club membership
Travel compensation >10km
Quarterly team events at our HQ in Amsterdam (Houthavens)
A pension plan by Zwitserleven.
Endless amount of our very own flavoured water !
What kind of vibe can you expect at our office Check out our very own Spotify playlist Akwablues.
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About Company
The Aquablu REFILL system introduces a new generation of hydration, making every sip more enjoyable while enhancing overall well-being with added vitamins and minerals. All the refreshment of bottled drinks, without the wasteful packaging—and even better.