Jobs at pladis Global

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.

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.

Manage Aldi and Lidl accounts across branded and own-label categories, supporting strategy, special-buy programs, tenders, contract negotiations, and profitable growth. Build customer and internal relationships, develop account plans, negotiate initiatives, monitor performance, and support forecasting and reporting. Conduct store visits to assess pladis, competitor, and adjacent-category performance. The role requires customer-facing experience, creativity, autonomy, problem-solving, attention to detail, and preferably negotiation experience and branded consumer-goods experience.

Own brand portfolio strategy, annual and long-term planning, revenue and profit delivery, consumer insight, innovation, renovation, and integrated marketing programs. Lead cross-functional teams, agencies, and commercial partners; manage budgets and performance reviews; influence senior stakeholders; and deliver brand growth, launches, in-store activation, and sales-driving initiatives across digital, social, out-of-home, and retail channels.

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.

Leads Godiva’s global Self-Gifting and Everyday Premium growth platform, setting portfolio strategy, innovation priorities, category plans, and investment decisions. Aligns global and regional stakeholders, directs a Marketing Manager and cross-functional teams, and drives Stage & Gate governance. Requires strong FMCG marketing, category strategy, portfolio leadership, commercial modeling, consumer insight, innovation, stakeholder influence, and people leadership experience, ideally in premium chocolate, confectionery, snacking, or related consumer categories.

Supports Godiva’s Self-Gifting and Impulse category strategy through consumer, shopper, competitor, and category analysis. Coordinates innovation and renovation projects, develops portfolio frameworks, business cases, investment proposals, launch materials, and category toolkits. Partners with global, regional, and local teams across Marketing, Insights, R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Brand, and Design. Monitors performance, supports governance forums, and recommends optimization opportunities to drive profitable growth.

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.

Leads Godiva’s North American eCommerce and digital commerce strategy across direct-to-consumer, business-to-business, marketplace, and omnichannel channels. Owns approximately $35 million in revenue, the eCommerce P&L, growth, profitability, promotional planning, digital merchandising, analytics, partnerships, and customer experience. Builds marketplace and corporate sales opportunities, manages strategic vendors, partners cross-functionally with marketing and sales, and leads and develops the eCommerce team.

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.

Develop and manage demand forecasts, inventory plans, and promotional planning across Godiva’s eCommerce channels. Analyze sales trends, forecast variances, inventory health, product shelf life, and demand drivers. Collaborate with channel, marketing, merchandising, supply planning, and operations teams to support product availability, optimize inventory, launch products, and mitigate excess or obsolete stock. Create actionable reporting and contribute to continuous planning process improvements.

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.

Owns category growth for the cake business by partnering with major grocery retailers. Develops customer-specific category plans, optimizes product range, distribution, space, promotions, location, and availability, and participates in range reviews. Analyzes market and shopper data to generate insights, communicate recommendations, influence decision-makers, and improve customer and company performance.

The Human Resources Executive role supports the company’s people strategy within a fast-growing global confectionery business. The description emphasizes collaboration, accountability, agility, resilience, and contributing to a diverse workforce. Specific day-to-day responsibilities and qualification requirements are not provided.

Lead indirect procurement for France and the Netherlands, developing category strategies, managing suppliers, conducting tenders, and delivering cost optimization, supply continuity, sustainability, and innovation. The role partners with manufacturing, supply chain, R&D, Finance, marketing, and global procurement teams; oversees contracts, budgets, supplier performance, specifications, pricing, and compliance; and drives strategic procurement projects and stakeholder relationships.

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.