Head of Tech - Finance & Contracts

How you can make a difference

Albert Heijn is looking for a strategic and inspiring Head of Tech to lead the Finance & Contracts domain within our Retail Business Platform. In this high-impact leadership role, you will drive technology, data, and innovation across a critical business area, while building strong teams and delivering secure, modern, and value-driven solutions.

As our new Head of Tech (Director level), you are responsible for overseeing the Finance & Contracts domain within the Retail Business Platform. You lead IT and data service delivery, driving innovation, modernization and improvement while ensuring efficient service execution. Working closely with both internal and external experts, you ensure high quality output and maximum value within your domain. Additionally, you will lead teams and support their professional growth. You are an inspiring leader, guiding your domain with technical expertise and aligning business and technology goals. You collaborate with stakeholders to develop new services, optimize existing processes, and ensure strategic alignment.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

Service Delivery

• Responsible for IT/data service delivery in your domain.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall&Gall and Ahold Delhaize Europe to develop and modernize new and improved IT solutions.
• Ensure the realization of value in alignment with the platform vision.
• Own the budget for your domain, balancing cost-efficiency with the investment needed to deliver value.
• Ensure security and IT compliance requirements are met across your domain.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead internal and external experts and teams to deliver maximum value, managing both Engineering Managers and Engineers.
• Foster a positive, inclusive work environment and support the growth of team members.
• Guide your teams through the transition to DevAI.
• Act as a technical sparring partner for staff engineers in your domain.

Strategy and Innovation

• Optimize business processes through technology and data driven solutions.
• Formulate policy and strategy to optimize the use of technology and data.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management and contribute to annual planning.
• Prioritize projects and collaborate with other Heads of Tech to achieve strategic goals.

Supplier Management & Governance

• Ensure supplier performance and take necessary action when needed.
• Work with suppliers to establish and monitor technical performance metrics.

Your new team and office.

Together with your team you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers the accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal; to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office.

Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉.

What we offer.

• A competitive annual gross base salary up to € 130.000 (incl holiday pay) plus a bonus on top of your salary.
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash?
• A company car or car allowance.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you as an employee.
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train.
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies.
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact

• A relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in information technology or similar.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in a similar role.
• Expertise in modern IT architectures, Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and other relevant standards. Our tech stack: Kotlin, React, Kubernetes, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with Finance Tech and SAP integrations is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Fluent in English; Dutch (C1+) is preferred but not required.
• Experience with budgeting and finops.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities.
• A strong conceptual thinker, adept at strategizing on an organizational level.
• A decisive leader, unafraid to make bold moves when necessary.
• A master of balancing practical thinking with strategic execution.
• A persistent problem solver, knowing when to push forward and when to exercise patience.

Albert Heijn is a hybrid Food & Tech company focused on using data, digital and technology to make shopping simpler and more inspiring. The company builds and runs digital retail solutions at scale and invests heavily in technology and career development.

Meet your colleagues

“We need to offer the best digital experience: that's our goal!”

Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager

“An endless race we must win”

Christy Elgee, Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA