As a Senior Project Manager Enabling Functions, your key objective is to successfully lead strategic transformation initiatives across Vanderlande's Enabling Functions. These initiatives may range from organizational and process transformations to technology-enabled projects in areas such as IT, Data, Digital and AI.
As part of the Strategy & Transformation Office, you will work at the heart of Vanderlande's transformation agenda, partnering with senior stakeholders across functions including IT, Finance, HR, Legal and Procurement.
You thrive in a dynamic environment where strategy meets execution. You enjoy bringing structure to complexity, aligning diverse stakeholder groups, and translating business ambitions into tangible results. Through your leadership, you create momentum, build trusted relationships, and ensure successful project delivery in a fast-changing environment.
What You Will Do
As a Senior Project Manager, you lead multidisciplinary transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business value across Enabling Functions.
Your responsibilities include:
- Leading complex transformation projects from business case through implementation and value realization.
- Managing cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment between business, process, technology and change activities.
- Driving projects across a broad range of domains, including operating model improvements, process optimization, organizational change, IT implementations, Data & Analytics, and AI-enabled initiatives.
- Establishing project governance, planning, budgeting, risk management and reporting structures.
- Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and acting as a trusted advisor throughout the transformation lifecycle.
- Managing project risks, dependencies and change impacts while ensuring delivery within scope, budget and timelines.
- Collaborating with subject matter experts, business leaders, IT teams and external partners to achieve project objectives.
- Providing clear and concise executive reporting and steering committee updates.
- Ensuring successful adoption of project outcomes and realization of intended business benefits.
What You Bring
To be successful in this role, you bring:
- A Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Management, Technology, Finance, or a related field.
- A project management certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, SAFe or Lean.
- Approximately 8-12 years of relevant experience in project, program or transformation management.
- A proven track record of delivering complex business transformation initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Experience working in consulting and/or leading transformation programs in a complex international environment.
- Affinity with technology-driven transformation, including IT, Data, Digital and AI-related initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills combined with a pragmatic delivery mindset.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trust across all organizational levels.
- Experience influencing senior leaders and navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.
- The ability to independently structure, manage and drive projects while maintaining focus on outcomes and value realization.
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Experience with project management and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Power BI and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
- Willingness to travel occasionally (approximately 10%).
What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience gained within a leading consulting firm or in a transformation function of a large international organization.
- Experience leading technology-enabled business transformations.
- Exposure to Data, Analytics, AI and digital innovation initiatives.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- A strong consulting mindset: structured, proactive, stakeholder-focused and outcome-driven.
About Vanderlande
Vanderlande is headquartered in Veghel, with a global team and worldwide impact. We design and deliver automated logistics systems for airports and distribution (parcel) operations. We're part of Toyota Industries Corporation. Warehouse automation sits within TAL (Toyota Automated Logistics), a separate organization within the group.
What We Offer
We offer a position in an international and professional working environment with room for personal development and growth.
This position offers a competitive salary range of € 7.000 to € 8.900 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance).
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
Ready To Apply?
Are you interested in this position? Apply directly via our careers page with your CV. Questions about this role? Contact Carlijn Kneepkens (Recruiter) at [email protected].
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Management, Technology, Finance, or related field.
- Project management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, SAFe or Lean).
- Approximately 8-12 years of relevant experience in project, program or transformation management.
- Proven track record delivering complex business transformation initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Experience working in consulting and/or leading transformation programs in a complex international environment.
- Affinity with technology-driven transformation, including IT, Data, Digital and AI-related initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic delivery mindset.
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior leaders.
- Ability to independently structure, manage and drive projects with focus on outcomes and value realization.
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Experience with project management and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Power BI and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
- Willingness to travel occasionally (approximately 10%).
- Experience gained within a leading consulting firm or transformation function of a large international organization.
- Exposure to Data, Analytics, AI and digital innovation initiatives.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Strong consulting mindset: structured, proactive, stakeholder-focused and outcome-driven.
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanderlande and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanderlande.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
Vanderlande Insights
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
