Come and join the leading #avoexperts 🥑
Westfalia Fruit is a leading multinational supplier of fresh fruit and value-added products, serving customers across retail and wholesale markets around the world. Through our vertically integrated supply chain, we grow, source, ripen, pack, process and market quality avocados and fresh produce 365 days a year.
With operations across Europe, Africa, North America and Latin America, we are recognised as the leading #avoexperts and a trusted partner to customers globally.
Help Shape Our Next Chapter
Westfalia Fruit Netherlands is entering an exciting new chapter as we further integrate into the wider global Westfalia Fruit organisation.
With a strong heritage in the European fresh produce market, we are evolving our operating model, strengthening collaboration across regions, and creating greater alignment with our global business. As part of this journey, we are investing in leadership capability, operational excellence, and long-term sustainable growth.
This creates a unique opportunity for experienced leaders who are motivated by transformation, enjoy building high-performing teams, and want to play a key role in shaping the future direction of a business with ambitious plans.
Head of Supply Chain
This is an opportunity to lead the end-to-end supply chain operation across planning, logistics and customer service within the Netherlands business. Acting as a vital link between global strategy and local execution, you will ensure seamless product flow, operational efficiency and service excellence. Operating within a matrix environment, you will drive alignment with global systems and processes while tailoring execution to meet local market and customer requirements.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead the local supply chain function, aligning with global strategies while tailoring execution to market needs.
- Represent supply chain on the Market Unit leadership team, contributing to overall business strategy.
- Implement global policies and planning processes, including S&OP, in collaboration with the Global Supply Chain team.
- Oversee demand and supply planning to ensure accurate forecasting, optimal inventory, and minimal waste.
- Manage warehousing, transport, and third-party logistics to ensure efficient and compliant product flow.
- Lead the customer service team to deliver high service levels, manage escalations, and meet fulfilment targets.
- Develop and coach a high-performing team across planning, logistics, and customer services.
- Monitor supply chain performance metrics and budget adherence, taking corrective action as needed.
- Collaborate across functions to ensure plans reflect sourcing, customer, finance, and quality requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement, cost-efficiency, and alignment between global KPIs and local execution.
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience within complex supply chain environments.
- Proven success leading planning, logistics, customer service, and operational teams.
- Experience operating within FMCG, fresh produce, or other perishable goods sectors would be advantageous.
- Strong understanding of S&OP, inventory management, logistics, and order fulfilment processes.
- Experience working within matrix organisations and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Strong analytical capability with experience using operational data to drive decision-making.
- Experience leading change, transformation, or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance customer requirements, operational efficiency, and business objectives.
- Fluent Dutch and English language skills.
Benefits
What can Westfalia Fruit offer you?
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company car (negotiable)
- 26 days paid vacation, plus national holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Company phone and laptop
Please note that this position does not have a specific closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and the advert may be removed at any time.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status
Skills Required
- Significant leadership experience within complex supply chain environments.
- Proven success leading planning, logistics, customer service, and operational teams.
- Experience operating within FMCG, fresh produce, or other perishable goods sectors.
- Strong understanding of S&OP, inventory management, logistics, and order fulfilment processes.
- Experience working within matrix organisations and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Strong analytical capability with experience using operational data to drive decision-making.
- Experience leading change, transformation, or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance customer requirements, operational efficiency, and business objectives.
- Fluent Dutch and English language skills.
What We Do
Westfalia Fruit is a leading global avocado company and a multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related processed products, trusted for over 75 years.
