Project Manager Indirect Procurement

How you can make a difference

As a Project Manager Indirect Procurement, you will play a 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. 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 lead the PEAK program office and 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, and prepare steerco materials
• Report on program milestones and achievements

Lead European cross-border transformational projects related to indirect procurement

• Turn 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?

We offer plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options, 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.

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 (memos, presentations, visualizations) and present business insights based on financial reports
• Fluent English