Product Manager – Technical Warehouse Foundation

Creating added value through all our services and assets within our warehouses

How do you make our customers happy?

At our organization, “customers” includes shoppers, the 52,000 partners selling on our platform, and within the Technical Warehouse Foundation we add two other important groups: our internal bol teams and our Logistic Service Provider in the warehouse.
Together, we offer 35 million products and handle peak moments of 700+ orders per minute. As volumes grow, we’re expanding our logistics capacity. Want to help shape that future?

The biggest challenge

Bol’s rapid growth, both in order volume and in the expansion of our partner network, puts increasing pressure on our logistics operations. More orders to ship, more external sellers to support, and more complex flows to manage. The question is: how do we keep pace? And how do we redesign our supply chain foundation so it can scale with us? And can Artificial Intelligence help us with these questions?

That ambition sounds simple, but making it happen is anything but. We operate a massive logistics network, shipping over 35 million products to 13 million customers while continuously onboarding new partners. To keep everything running smoothly, the technical foundation of our warehouses must be rock solid and ready for the future. This requires a Product Manager who can lead multiple cross-domain programs at once and keep the entire system aligned.

The Technical Warehouse Foundation also stands out because of its impact, its scope, and the unique mix of technology within a dynamic physical environment.

What you’ll do as Product Manager in the Technical Warehouse Foundation

The Technical Warehouse Foundation is made up of six product teams and forms the backbone of our logistics operation. It safeguards our license to operate and empowers all logistics teams to continuously improve and deliver maximum impact for our customers.

As a Product Manager within this foundation, you act as the right hand of the Senior Product Manager and play a key role in enabling the teams to thrive. Your work is a mix of Product leadership and driving overarching themes across multiple product areas, such as inbound, stock, outbound, and returns.

Even when you focus on concrete projects, you do so with a holistic view. We don’t want isolated “logistics islands”, we want one connected logistics ecosystem. The scope of challenges is broad, and together with the Senior Product Manager you decide where your contribution creates the most value.

You also represent Warehousing in long-term strategic discussions, collaborating with stakeholders inside and outside Logistics, especially when new fulfillment centers are designed and implemented.

Across all initiatives, you safeguard focus, alignment, and momentum. Your goal is clear: deliver real value in our operations while enabling autonomous teams to continue steering their own success. You make sure new (Artificial Intelligence) concepts and assets land well in the organization and actually improve day-to-day performance.

What makes this role truly unique

In short, you will:

• Take the lead on cross-team product innovations.
• Shape Product Warehousing vision with strategic and tactical topics to operationalize the overall product vision.
• Build strong relationships with product managers and stakeholders in related domains to enhance your impact and manage dependencies effectively.
• Search for new (AI) market trends and opportunities that can help improve bol’s productivity
• Co‑own the success of our warehousing product and its OKRs together with the Senior Product Manager.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

Pros

• King/Queen of ComplexityYou get energized by overseeing complex programs and keeping them running smoothly
• Not easily out of breathYou know that change processes often require stamina, and you have the organizational and communication power to independently drive transformation programs to the finish line.
• Agile stakeholder managerYou are a pro at connecting, managing, and guiding large stakeholder groups, regardless of their organizational level and seniority

Cons

• Yes, is your only answerYou find it hard to deny requests, even if they negatively impact your programs – pushing back is scary as hell!
• Captain OverchoiceYou flat-out can’t decide if there are multiple, equally valid options
• Impact, what do you mean?You find it difficult to articulate the impact of choices and to pinpoint the root cause of problems.

This is where you’ll work

You’ll join the Technical Warehouse Foundation: six cross‑functional product teams responsible for the core technology that powers all our warehouses. Their work ranges from securing and maintaining our middleware, to extracting and publishing in‑warehousing data, protecting our assets, and finding the best possible devices for our logistics operation.

As a Product Manager, you’ll collaborate closely with other Product teams, Security, Operations, and Infra Development to shape the future of the warehousing domain. The Technical Warehouse Foundation consists of a Senior Product Manager, two Engineering Managers, two Team Leads, and 34 engineers.

We’re looking for someone who’s a genuine team player, someone with an affinity for technology, who understands how engineers think and enjoy working. You have passion for logistic processes and warehousing and you’re not afraid to take on challenging projects.

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