Project Manager Business Improvements 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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Project Manager Business Improvements Job Description

Introduction
Are you a hands-on project manager, with proven experience in implementing improvement projects and performing stakeholder management in an international business environment? And do you have the knowledge, interest and skills to also work on the (technical) improvement content while keeping the projects on track?  If so, this is the right role for you! 

Job Mission
As project manager business improvements, your key objective is to continuously improve the business performance and thereby realizing the yearly goals and targets in line with the Business Unit Warehouse Automation and Parcel (BU WP) profitable growth strategy. 

In practice, this means that you analyse, initiate, execute and embed business improvements on our improvement focus areas: customer satisfaction, product modularization and costs & complexity reduction. By doing so you are not only managing action lists and schedules, but you also offer hands-on support to the involved people and teams to speed things up.  

Context of position
You will become part of the Continuous Improvement team of the Business Unit WP and you report to the manager improvements.
The BU WP is the part of the Vanderlande organisation responsible for the business in the market segments Warehouse Automation and Parcel in the larger part of Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.

Key activities include sales/business development including sales engineering, project delivery and realisation and services execution. WP is the fast-growing part of Vanderlande in the food market (e.g. AH, Woolworths), Fashion (e.g. Zalando, Nike), E-commerce (e.g. Amazon) and Parcel (e.g. UPS, DHL)  

Job description

• Pro-actively manage people, content and planning of the improvements in your scope
• Deliver hands-on support on the content of improvement projects
• Embed business improvements structurally on product, process and organizational level
• Perform data analyses to substantiate findings, opportunities, improvements and solutions with figures and facts
• Travel up to approx. 30% of your time

Project Manager Business Improvements Job Requirements

Education

• Master degree in Business Engineering, MBA or similar

• At least 5 years of project management experience within the industry
• Relevant experience on people, product and process improvements 
• Experience with implementing Lean visual performance management 
• Preferably IPMA-certified or PMI/PMP certified
• A successful track record in leading and executing multidisciplinary projects, preferably gained in an international business environment

• Able to independently scope, plan, manage, execute and control your work
• Pro-active and persistent attitude, hands-on “can do” mentality 
• The ability to gain trust, influence and build strong relationships with stakeholders
• Clear and effective communication and a structured way of working
• Entrepreneur to identify related improvement opportunities to improve 

• 27 days of vacation & 13 ADV days 
• flexible working hours 
• training 
• phone 
• laptop
• collective pension scheme and insurance facilities for healthcare, car, WGA (Return to Work Scheme for the Partially Disabled) etc.

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