Stage vacatures in Nieuwegein

As senior project manager supply chain, you are the supply chain representative in innovation and commercialisation projects for Business Group Ingredients. When R&D develops a new product, when a production line could be better utilized at another site, or when compliance requires a packaging change for specific markets, you're the person who figures out the supply chain implications and drives the project from feasibility through implementation.

Your key responsibilities:

• lead supply chain pre-orientation studies: assess different production scenarios, estimate costs and revenue potential, and provide clear recommendations. The goal is to quickly identify the big opportunities and investment requirements, not to produce perfect analyses at this stage;
• build business cases and prepare structured decision documents for project steering committees and stage-gate reviews, ensuring supply chain feasibility is appropriately considered;
• act as the supply chain representative in multidisciplinary project teams, working alongside colleagues from R&D, technology, marketing, operations, finance, and sustainability;
• coordinate with project managers and program leads to define required supply chain deliverables, and take ownership of delivering them;
• assemble project teams with the right functional expertise. For larger projects involving significant capital expenditure, you work with dedicated capex leads who handle detailed engineering and design;
• manage project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation with financial discipline, escalating proactively when needed;
• drive end-to-end project execution from pre-orientation through implementation and production handover;
• identify and mitigate risks across all project phases, including contingency planning for critical scenarios.

Projects vary in size and nature: from new product developments and production transfers between factories to network optimization and compliance initiatives. You'll typically manage two to four projects simultaneously, either as overall project manager or as supply chain workstream lead within larger programs.

You will report to the manager commercialisation and work within a team of approximately six project managers. This is a stand-alone role where you take full ownership of your projects. You organize, you coordinate, you deliver.