As a Project Manager Indirect Procurement, you will play pivotal role in delivering on the NFR savings ambition. You will lead the PEAK program office and lead European, cross-border transformational projects.

About Ahold Delhaize  

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive. 

Your new work environment

NFR Sourcing stands for Not for Resale Sourcing. We facilitate the business operations of all our European Ahold Delhaize brands by sourcing the indirect goods and services they need. Put simply, our department buys everything that you see in a store that’s not for sale. Examples of these items are endless, covering everything from flooring and shelving to our ovens, checkout counters and packaging for our private label products. Together with key business stakeholders, our NFR Sourcing Managers define what to buy and who to buy it from.

Our team is based across six countries and is part of our European Business Services (EBS) organization. We’re a truly European department, looking beyond borders to deliver the best sourcing solutions for all our European brands across the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia and Greece. By using one European process, one European policy and one sourcing tool across all six countries, we can leverage scales to maximize benefits and secure the right conditions and best prices. 

NfR supports our European brands in delivering savings. With recently increased savings ambitions, the PEAK program was launched to ensure NFR sourcing managers work with a robust savings pipeline and benefit from efficient, streamlined decision-making to accelerate savings delivery.

As a Project Manager Indirect Procurement you will join the NFR Procurement Excellence & Sustainability team which is a staff function in the European NFR sourcing organization. The team focuses on 3 main elements

• Procurement excellence
• Sourcing intelligence
• Sustainable procurement

You will play pivotal role in delivering on the NfR savings ambition, lead the PEAK program office and lead European, cross-border transformational projects and interact daily with the NFR category teams, Category directors, sourcing managers, brand representatives, brand finance functions, business owners and brand leaders.

Key responsibilities 

Your key responsibilities include:

Run the NFR Value office (Project management office for the Peak program) to identify and execute NFR savings initiatives.

• Facilitate value targeting workshops to identify new and additional savings opportunities
• Prepare, coordinate and present steering committee materials (project status, risks, issues, decisions required and benefits tracking)

• Facilitate decision making, escalate issues, prepare steerco materials
• Report on program milestones and achievements

Lead European cross-border transformational projects related to indirect procurement

• Turning European category strategies into clear, actionable project plans / roadmaps, balancing standardization with local regulatory and business needs across six countries.
• Lead European project governance, driving fast, transparent decision-making through effective steering committees and escalation paths.
• Champion change and communication across Europe, ensuring smooth adoption of new suppliers, contracts, and ways of working.

What’s in it for you? 

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; a full-time (32-40 hours per week) position in a hybrid way of working: partly from home and partly from our office in Zaandam; and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus: 

• A gross annual salary between €56K to €68K including holiday pay based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses 
• A first-rate pension plan  
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days + 19,5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card 
• A laptop and smartphone  

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Combine an MSc degree in Supply chain, economics, business administration or similar with at least 5 years of relevant work experience
• Have a strong background in project management and know how to communicate and champion change
• Have solid knowledge of sourcing and retail business processes
• Bring strong analytical skills to the table
• Have strong communication skills and can act as a true business partner to senior leadership (e.g. open, but also organization sensitive and persuasive when needed)
• Have proven presentation skills to write (memo, presentations, visualization) and present business insights based on financial reports
• Fluent English

Are as caring, courageous and growth minded as your colleagues, and are happy to embrace and advocate the #daretocare philosophy.

Apply now! 

Are you keen to join the NFR Procurement Excellence & Sustainability team? Even if you don’t meet every requirement but believe your skills and personality make you a strong fit, we encourage you to apply.

Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Marko Simic, Talent Acquisition Specialist, via marko.simic@delhaize.rs if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.