Jobs at pladis Global

Supports the Western Europe and Emerging Markets Marketing team with sample registration, portfolio updates, competition tracking, social media landscaping, market research, digital asset management, best-practice sharing, pack optimization, consumer insight archiving, and project administration. The intern also contributes to new product ideation and commercialization while gaining experience in a fast-paced international FMCG environment.

Leads the Netherlands R&D function for biscuits and confectionery, owning innovation, renovation, technical productivity, product development, commercialization, formulation, processing technology, and brand stewardship. The role manages the R&D pipeline, oversees third-party technical capabilities, provides scientific and technical leadership, and coaches the local team while driving successful launches, quality, consumer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.

Coordinates material requirements planning to ensure packaging and other materials are available for manufacturing. Responsibilities include running MRP and ATP reports, managing supplier relationships, balancing inventory and working capital, identifying supply risks, maintaining SAP data, resolving stock discrepancies, supporting production planning, and contributing to new product and continuous improvement projects.

Leads Godiva’s global gifting category growth agenda through portfolio planning, innovation programs, seasonal initiatives, and market deployment. Analyzes consumer, market, competitor, and performance data; develops business cases; coordinates cross-functional projects from concept to launch; and partners with regional teams across boutiques, cafes, premium retail, and Global Travel Retail. Tracks performance, recommends optimization, and prepares governance materials to align stakeholders.

Manages and supports a portfolio of enterprise business applications across Europe. Responsibilities include second-line support, incident and problem resolution, application monitoring, vendor coordination, lifecycle management, upgrades, releases, testing, documentation, compliance, and continuous improvement. The role serves as a bridge between business users, application vendors, and internal IT teams while supporting application-related projects and ensuring system availability, performance, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Advise on complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, capability, absence, conduct, and workplace culture cases. Lead or support investigations, hearings, and appeals; coach managers; provide employment law guidance; partner with HR stakeholders and trade unions; manage case reporting; and promote consistent, compliant people practices across UK manufacturing and corporate sites.

Owns supply chain financial performance consolidation across UK manufacturing sites, logistics, and central functions. Leads FP&A reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, variance reporting, and continuous improvement. Serves as Supply Chain Finance’s Capex lead, managing investment business cases, capital forecasts, budgets, reporting, and Capital Board submissions. Partners with finance, engineering, operations, commercial, and senior stakeholders while supporting standardization and financial performance improvement.

Leads global supply chain finance across manufacturing and logistics, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, KPI performance management, working capital improvement, capital investment evaluation, sourcing decisions, project economics, and strategic planning. Coordinates regional finance teams, drives standardization and digital reporting improvements, supports capital allocation, and develops a direct-report manager while partnering with senior supply chain leadership.

Provides proactive administrative support to UK leadership team members, including diary and email management, travel coordination, meeting and conference organization, minutes, onboarding, purchase orders, cost centers, presentations, and SharePoint management. The role also supports projects, collaborates with global teams and the wider PA network, and drives process improvements.

Manage full-cycle recruitment and onboarding for hourly and salaried manufacturing roles. Build candidate pipelines, screen and interview applicants, coordinate onboarding, track temporary employee conversions, maintain ATS records, ensure EEO and hiring compliance, manage staffing agency relationships, support workforce planning and retention, report recruitment metrics, and conduct 30-, 60-, and 90-day new-hire check-ins.

Support account managers across Asda by managing invoicing allocation, promotional planning and administration, price file and NPD maintenance, shipper plan and secondary space tracking, store audits, post-promotional analysis, and support customer/field sales meetings and base rate reviews.

Leads global FP&A, commercial finance, forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, and business performance analysis for Godiva and pladis brands. Oversees regional and consolidated reporting, financial modeling, working capital and cash flow analysis, NPD performance tracking, cost-center management, and recharge processes. Provides decision support, evaluates business cases, develops planning processes and analytical tools, supports consolidation-system implementation, and partners with senior global stakeholders to improve performance and standardization.

Project Executive role at pladis, a global biscuits and confectionery company. The posting emphasizes supporting the company’s ambitious growth, iconic brands, infrastructure, and people while demonstrating purpose, resilience, positivity, agility, collaboration, and accountability. No specific responsibilities, qualifications, technologies, compensation, travel, or clearance requirements are provided.

Supports breakthrough food product innovation from technical concept through prototype, pilot, and factory trials. Develops scalable processes, product architectures, specifications, and technical solutions while applying scientific methods, ingredient and product characterization, texture and rheology analysis, and data interpretation. Collaborates with global innovation, engineering, product development, marketing, suppliers, and manufacturing teams to meet quality, cost, timing, sustainability, and productivity objectives. Ensures GMP compliance, project documentation, technical gates, and effective handover to regional product development teams.

Lead the HR agenda for a manufacturing site, partnering with leadership to drive culture, engagement, workforce planning, capability building, performance, absence management, and people-cost control. Own union and industrial relations, including consultations, negotiations, grievances, and agreements. Coach managers, support organizational change, oversee talent and succession processes, deliver people KPIs, and coordinate with HR centers of excellence on reward, learning, wellbeing, inclusion, and employee relations.

The job description provides limited role-specific details. The Senior Product Development Manager will likely support product development within a global biscuits and confectionery business, collaborating across teams to deliver quality consumer products and contribute to the growth of iconic brands. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract emphasizing agility, accountability, resilience, collaboration, and commercial impact.

Develop and execute brand strategy for iconic consumer food brands. Responsibilities include analyzing positioning and consumer insights, translating strategy into go-to-market plans, managing agency-led creative development, setting sales and brand-health goals, measuring campaign ROI, monitoring markets and competitors, overseeing marketing activities, and leading product and packaging innovation initiatives.

Manage end-to-end export operations for land and sea shipments in KSA: prepare export documentation, ensure SFDA and customs compliance, coordinate bookings and transport, handle legalization and claims, maintain export trackers and Smartsheet, verify freight invoices, and support cross-functional teams for timely shipment execution.

The Sales Intern will analyze store traffic and customer reactions, promote offers, manage inventory, and build customer relationships to maximize sales.

Provide hands-on support and ownership for LAN/WAN/Wi‑Fi, Aruba/HPE networking, AV/meeting room infrastructure, servers and virtual data center, and cloud (AWS/Azure). Act as L2/3 escalation, manage incidents/problems/changes via ServiceNow, ensure security/compliance, coordinate vendors and global IT teams, and support DR and lifecycle activities across MENAI countries.