Consultant Logistics Management Job in Veghel, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

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Consultant Logistics Management Job Description

Do you have the ability to handle internal and external client issues in this challenging consultancy role? And be a part of our continuing growth and our ongoing professional development? In that case, we are looking for you! 

Your position 
As a Consultant Logistics Management you will be part of the Service Consultancy team within the business unit Global Services. You support clients to improve their logistic operations and develop cost-effective solutions for instance for supply chain, warehouse, material handling and distribution issues. You are involved with advising our external clients in the field of logistic processes as well as with the standardisation and professionalization of our service delivery. As a consultant you help to drive new initiatives in uncharted territory at both clients of Vanderlande and internal stakeholders. These initiatives are often strategically positioned, so you align with directs and board members of both Vanderlande and the client, creating and delivering added value for our clients. A Consultant has a high impact and a combination of independency and entrepreneurship, these are requirements for doing the job right.  Tasks and responsibilities: 
As a Consultant Logistics Management you help our clients to improve their customer service operations and develop cost-effective solutions for supply chain, warehouse, material handling and distribution issues. In doing this you are responsible for the following tasks:

• Evaluation of existing as well as new implemented systems and procedures in the field of Logistics, recommendations and solutions for improvement; 
• Advice asked on matters regarding Logistics issues as for example supply chain, warehouse, material handling and distribution; 
• Development of new concepts that best fit the needs of the client; 
• Active maintaining of relationships with stakeholders in order to identify current and future needs;
• Contributing to knowledge development, sharing of ‘best practices’; 
• Close following of developments in the field of Logistics, translation of new insights to the service strategy and service propositions;  

• Creating a central service strategy;
• Developing aligned service propositions that identify and answer (current as well as  future customers needs;
• Uniforming and standardizing the service offering and service delivery;
• Developing service tools;
• Improving the support and maintenance of the Vanderlande products;
• Providing guidance and verification of service solutions during tender processes, in order to scale up our life cycle services offering to our customers while maintaining consistency and quality in delivery.

• 27 days of vacations & 13 ADV days
• Flexible working hours
• Training
• Collective pension scheme and insurance facilities for healthcare, car, WGA (Return to Work Scheme for the Partially Disabled) etc

Consultant Logistics Management Job Requirements

Your profile

• Master degree and a strong interest in Industrial Automation;
• You have relevant working experience (at least 6 years) as a consultant in a logistics/technical environment;
• Comprehensive understanding of Service Business;
• You have a continuous improvement focus and attitude; 
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills; 
• Good command of English;
• Willing to travel internationally up to 50%.

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