Job TitleProject Manager
Job Description
Have you got the drive and entrepreneurship to manage our international Airports and Parcel projects? Do you have the commercial attitude to play the game with our customers? Are you someone who develops project teams and third parties and encourages them to achieve the almost unattainable? If so, you're the ideal Project Manager for us!
Your position
As (Junior) Project Manager Airports & Parcel Solutions, it's your job to set up a project and keep an eye on how every aspect of a project is progressing as per plan. You will have ultimate responsibility for the successful delivery of one or more Material Handling projects and form the link between the client, the team at Vanderlande and subcontractors.
We expect an autonomous and client-oriented approach. We also expect the ability to manage projects worth up to 5 million or to be responsible for a part of a large complex project (> € 50 million) under supervision of a Project Director.
You will manage projects with tight deadlines and work in and with different cultures. You will deliver realistic project plans and have the ability to implement them such that the achievement of all of the following relevant key factors is guaranteed: customer satisfaction, expectation management, time, budget, quality and safety.
During the implementation phase you will have commercial responsibility, eventually resulting in a successful acceptance of your projects by the customer and the internal service organization.
Your department
The Vanderlande Customer Centre Airports & Parcel Solutions NEME is active in the NEME region to design, deliver and service solutions for airports and parcel customers. As we are expecting growth, we are looking for a Project Manager with the potential and ambition to further develop and professionalize in Project Management.
Your profile
If you are the (Junior) Project Manager we are looking for, you will recognize yourself in these characteristics:
- You are an outgoing person, have strong communication skills and find it easy to build relationships.
- You are a true entrepreneur, result-oriented with a nature to strive for excellence, from beginning to end.
- As a natural team-player, you sense stakeholder’s concerns and their needs for information and attention.
- You have an excellent command of the English language. Additional language mastering can be a plus.
- We are open to starters, as well as candidates with up to 5 years’ experience in project execution in a technical and challenging environment. Your next career step is managing the team instead of being part of the team.
- You have completed a technical program at Bachelor or Master's level.
- Experience/affinity with IT/OT software as part of automation projects is preferred.
- International working experience is a plus.
- You have affinity with logistics and/or industrial automation.
- As you will be working among others for our Dutch customers, you are expected to have proficiency in Dutch.
- Would be willing to spend 25% of your time (on average) travelling.
What we offer?
This position offers a competitive salary range of € 4.600 - € 5.500 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.
On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:
- 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
- Flexible working hours.
- A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
- A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
- Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
- Working from home allowance.
- Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
- On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
- Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
- A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
- And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.
Your application
If this challenging role appeals to you, then please apply now by completing the application form, and uploading your CV and cover letter. For more information about this vacancy, please contact Stef Alferink (recruiter) by phone +31 413 755 087
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
