Junior Project Manager

Join Vanderlande as a Junior Project Manager

Have you got the drive and entrepreneurship necessary to manage our international Airports projects? Do you have the commercial attitude to play the game with our customers? Are you someone who develops project teams and third parties and encourages them to achieve the almost unattainable? If so, you're the ideal Project Manager for us!

Your position

As Junior Project Manager AirportsSolutions, it's your job to set up a project and keep an eye on how every aspect of a project is progressing as per plan. You will have ultimate responsibility for the successful delivery of one or more Material Handling projects and form the link between the client, the team at Vanderlande and subcontractors.

We expect an autonomous and client-oriented approach. We also expect the ability to manage less complex projects independently, worth up to 5 million or to be responsible for a part of a large complex project (> € 50 million) under supervision of a Project Director.

You will manage projects with tight deadlines and work in and with different cultures. You will deliver realistic project plans and have the ability to implement them such that the achievement of all of the following relevant key factors is guaranteed: customer satisfaction, expectation management, time, budget, quality and safety.

During the implementation phase you will have commercial responsibility, eventually resulting in a successful acceptance of your projects by the customer and the internal service organization.

Your department

The Vanderlande Customer Centre AirportsSolutionsEMEA is active in the EMEA region to design, deliver and service solutions for airports customers. As we are expecting growth, we are looking for a Junior Project Manager with the potential and ambition to further develop and professionalize in Project Management.

Your profile

If you are the (Junior) Project Manager we are looking for, you will recognize yourself in these characteristics:

• You are an outgoing person, have strong communication skills and find it easy to build relationships.
• You are a true entrepreneur, result-oriented with a nature to strive for excellence, from beginning to end.
• As a natural team-player, you sense stakeholder’s concerns and their needs for information and attention.
• You have an excellent command of the English language. Additional language mastering can be a plus
• As you will be working among others for our Dutch customers, you are expected to have proficiency in Dutch.
• We are open to starters, as well as candidates with up to 5 years’ experience in project execution in a technical and challenging environment.
• You have completed a technical program at Bachelor or Master's level.
• Experience/affinity with IT/OT software as part of automation projects is preferred.
• International working experience is a plus.
• You have affinity with logistics and/or industrial automation.
• Would be willing to spend 25% of your time (on average) travelling.

What we offer?

This position offers a competitive salary range up to € 5.500 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). If you have less than 2 years work experience, you will start in our Young Graduate scale. Therefore, you will get a salary of €3.253 gross per month for a completed Bachelor study and €3.617 for Master.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:​

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).​
• Flexible working hours.​
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).​
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.​
• Working from home allowance.​
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.​
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.​
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.​
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.​
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.