We share a passion for delivering great food, value and innovations, and for creating inclusive workplaces that provide rewarding career opportunities.
Our story
We are European Business Services, a shared services organization dedicated to helping our great European brands achieve their strategic goals. We create sourcing, financial and HR solutions for growth and profitability, empowering brands to spend more time on what matters most: their customers. What’s more, we proudly support Ahold Delhaize’s mission to drive omnichannel growth, strengthen operational excellence, cultivate best talent, and elevate health and sustainability.
We operate within Ahold Delhaize, serving our brands across the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Czech Republic and Romania. Through courage, integrity, teamwork, care and humor, we help customers eat well, save time and live better. We collaborate as a cross-functional, international team, with experts across three departments: HR services, Finance services and Not-for-resale sourcing.Together, we strive to deliver a seamless user experience for our European brands and their associates.
Everything we do, we do with the future in mind.
Our departments
HR services
We enable our brands’ HR teams to focus on the moments that truly matter to their business. We do so by taking care of HR service delivery on running digitally designed processes, as well as developing and deploying end-to-end HR solutions on:
- Talent acquisition & onboarding
- Learning & development
- Talent management
- Payroll & HR admin related activities
..all pro-actively supported by our subject matter and process experts.
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Finance services
We provide our brands’ finance teams with clear insights that help to steer and act on flawless reporting – and we actively support in enabling successful new business initiatives with our financial solution architects. We implement and monitor: + Zero touch and zero paper processes + Automated controls
- Efficient & fast financial settlements
- Smart & effective reporting and analysis
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Not-for-resale sourcing (NFR)
We unlock the full potential of our combined European business footprint, by sourcing everything needed to keep our businesses running safely and smoothly. In other words, everything that is not resold to our end customer. We strive to deliver the best sourcing solutions for our European brands focusing on cost, availability and sustainability. We do so by:
- Scouting the markets & vetting suppliers
- Negotiating commercial conditions & contracts
- Ensuring all European colleagues are able to easily order goods & services
great local brands in 9 countries
years retail innovators
local stores
associates worldwide
million customers served every week
Annual revenues (€) managed by the Finance department within Ahold Delhaize, European Business Services (EBS)