Supply Chain Development Manager
Are you skilled program and project manager, building both the content of an excellent customer supply chain as well as leading the change with the team? Are you excited to contribute in the setup of the new business unit Professional and support the business growth by means of new route to markets and product introductions? FrieslandCampina Professional is looking for a Customer Supply Chain Development Manager.
What we ask
- MSc / MA / MBA Degree
- Excellent in Project Management with a minimum of 6 years of project management experience
- Minimum of 7 years of work experience in the FMCG industry, preferable in an operational supply chain/manufacturing environment
- Fluently in English & Dutch, written and spoken
- Strong analytical skills, excellent Project Management skills
- Communication and influencing skills, ability to motivate others
- Lead by example, absorb stress and radiate energy
- Pro-active attitude and people person / team player
- Being able to work in a multi-cultural, dynamic environment, at all levels and in cross-functional teams
- Continuously looks for opportunities and improvements within daily work context and take ownership in implementing solutions
- Pre: experience in production environment and/or international environment
What we offer
- Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence
- We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package so you can enjoy it
- Workweek of 38 hours, competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, end year allowance 3%, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home.
- Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
- Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
- A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
- Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
- Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy
- FrieslandCampina has a ‘fietsplan’
Vacancy description
As supply chain development manager within FC-Professional, you will be working on supply chain improvement projects closely linked to our global Professional strategic journey. In your role you will act as the linking pin to the functional leads of our different CSC areas and ensure progress on our strategic roadmap for the years to come. You will realize your objectives within multidisciplinary teams both inside as well as outside our own customer supply chain. On top, you will be an important driver of ensuring that our SC can facilitate the future business growth and you will need to be able to translate what is needed into what needs to be done.
Key activities:
- Set up ambition, goals, deliverables, approach and way of working of the Professional CSC program(s) with a focus on delivering our SC development strategy;
- Developing strategic and operational plans for the work group, managing execution, and measuring results;
- Provides expertise, input or feedback to assist in the development of program(s) and project management methodologies, standards, tools and training;
- Project leader of a specific projects as part of the overall program including delivery of new products to new markets. (Idea to Implementation);
- Creates support for complete project approach (objectives, planning etc.), updates and consults relevant stakeholders regularly, manages expectations of relevant stakeholders during; execution, involves stakeholders in decision making and builds and maintains a network of relevant stakeholders;
- Define, Build & Lead capability building within the customer supply chain domain;
- Optimizes the implementation of and support for these at FrieslandCampina Professional;
- Be the linking pin between our global Excellence teams and our SC organization to drive and adopt standards across our organization.
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInAs CSC Development manager you'll be part of the global Professional CSC Development & Commercialization team based in Amersfoort HQ. You will be part of a diverse, ambitious team and will be reporting to the global FC-P CSC Development & Commercialization lead. Want to work with one of the largest dairy companies in the world with the head quarter located in Amersfoort? Here we work with multidisciplinary disciplines to make a real difference in the lives of millions of people by providing the very best nutrition. Fulfilling our purpose, better nutrition for the world, requires great efforts from many people. We believe that people as diverse as our nutritional offerings – including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, social background, disability and thinking style – enrich our lives and strengthen our business.
About our team and office:
- A multidisciplinary team — highly skilled, focused on making our best work together
- A friendly environment — with wonderful cafeteria, free milk, cheese and Lattiz coffee, and subsidized lunches drinks and events
- Easily accessible — close to central station and with private parking spaces