Senior Project Manager - Building Lead

Help us take our Warehouse to a new level

Senior Project Manager – Building Lead

How do you make our customers happy?

Every order bol delivers starts its journey inside a fulfillment centre. As the Building Lead you’ll help take bol’s newest warehouse from the initial design stage through construction and handover. An inspirational responsibility, because you own the building workstream end-to-end: guiding the VO→TO→DO design process, managing the tendering and contracting of construction partners, and ensuring the warehouse is delivered on time, on spec, and ready to process millions of orders. A rare opportunity to shape a building from the very first sketch!

The biggest challenge

A fulfillment center is a finely integrated ecosystem where the structural design, building services, and mechanization requirements must all align. How do you design a building that accommodates an automation system we’re still specifying? How do you keep the construction timeline moving when the operational requirements are still being refined? And how do you achieve continuous improvement and knowledge sharing in a fast-paced and demanding environment? You’ll resolve tensions between design ambitions and buildability, between speed-to-site and quality standards, and between competing stakeholder priorities.

What you’ll do as Senior Project Manager & Building Lead

You’ll join the BFCM project team within Infrastructure Development department. This team will deliver a new fulfillment center that will set the benchmark for bol’s logistics network. As the manager of the building stream, you’re responsible for delivering a physical facility that’s ready for mechanization and operations. You’ll steer the design process from preliminary sketches through detailed engineering, manage construction tendering and contracting, and oversee the actual build. You’ll coordinate closely with colleague Leads within the project to ensure your building design and the mechanization layout develop in unison. Throughout, you’ll manage external architects, engineers, and contractors while onboarding and aligning internal stakeholders across operations, safety, and facilities. This entails:

• Guiding the design process through the VO, TO, and DO phases with architects and engineers
• Developing and managing the contractor tender process, evaluating bids, and negotiating contracts
• Overseeing construction: schedule, quality, safety, and environmental compliance are in scope
• Accommodating mechanization and operational requirements
• Managing scope, risk, and change control within bol’s stage-gate governance framework
• Aligning, creating buy-in from and preparing decision making for stakeholders across operations, facilities, safety, and executive leadership
• Creating and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• Guide and continually develop a team of building experts and project managers

Why you can make a difference

You have 10+ years of leading projects experience, including construction project management for industrial or logistics facilities. You understand the full lifecycle, from design through construction and handover. You have a track record of navigating complex stakeholder environments, and are the type of manager you’d gladly follow yourself; understanding, clear, and inspiring. Affinity with the Dutch construction industry is essential; experience with building warehouses is the cherry on top.

Your ability to connect design intent with operational reality sets you apart. You ask the right questions early – about flexibility, future-proofing, and how a building’s design optimally serves the intended logistics processes. You are equally adept at translating those insights into requirements that construction partners can act on. You communicate with ease across a wide range of disciplines and organizational levels, build rapport without forcing issues, and remain composed and professional when priorities overlap. Fluency in Dutch is required; English proficiency is also required. The same goes for an academic background in a technical or construction-related discipline.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

• - Renovation specialist You prefer optimizing existing buildings to starting from a blank canvas
• - Iron ruler You aren’t great at coaching and prefer decrees to feedback
• - Discontinued improver Inspiring team development and personal growth should not be a constant part of your job

• + Design-to-delivery connector You excel in aligning an architect’s vision with operational realities
• + Collaborative champion Managing architects, engineers, contractors, and internal stakeholders simultaneously? That’s when you’re at your best
• + Once-in-a-career builder A greenfield fulfillment center with modular design and the latest technologies? You’re on board!

Where you’ll work

You’ll join the Infrastructure Development team within bol’s logistics organization. This team delivers projects that shape bol’s fulfillment network. The environment is diverse, welcoming, collaborative, and hands-on: we bring different perspectives together, enthusiastically share our knowledge, and hold each other accountable. With 2,900 colleagues, 47,000 partners, and 13.7 million customers, the projects you deliver directly support the logistics backbone that makes it all work. Sound appealing? This is your chance to design and build infrastructure that sets a new and higher standard.

Relocation

Bol wants to ensure that you make the best possible transition. We offer relocation assistance to the Netherlands from the moment you have the job.

Flexible working

We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.

On and off

At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.