(Senior) Manager E2E Planning Transformations
- Experience: Management
- Contract: Permanent contract
- Location: Aalst or Mechelen, Belgium
Our company
We’re Bluecrux. Pleased to meet you!
Founded in 2011, Bluecrux is a value chain consulting and technology company. Our experts and software solutions help to transform today’s supply chains into smart, efficient, and fully integrated value chains. We believe that only true collaboration leads to innovation, by converging at the intersection of our knowledge and our customers’ ambition and linking expertise with technology and problems with solutions.
We’re a community, a movement that’s built at this intersection, which we call “the Cutting X”: it’s where supply chains evolve and value chains are forged.
Our client portfolio includes some of the world’s largest companies, including Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Roche, Bridgestone, AkzoNobel, Beiersdorf, Oatly, and many more. Our desire to work closely with them is also reflected in our global presence, with offices both in Europe and the US.
The PLAN squad designs & implements our customers’ business transformation by defining the future organizational operating model, designing new ways of working & solutions advanced planning systems (APS), feeding their data factory, accelerating their setup towards agile S&OP or guiding them through their end-to-end supply chain planning. We do not work for them but rather with them, and we stand by their side the entire time. That is the only way to make changes stick and flourish.
Your role
Are you ready to take your project management and supply chain expertise to the next level?
As a Senior Project Manager with us, you’ll be at the forefront of redesigning business processes to boost operational efficiency. Your role involves creating new operating models and implementing innovative ways of working. By analyzing current processes, you’ll develop strategies to improve efficiency and drive impactful change.
You’ll lead client workshops to identify their needs and recommend changes to their End-to-End planning methods and overall supply chain operations. Your ability to shape and define project plans will establish a clear path to achieve project goals. Drawing from your extensive experience, you’ll set the methodology and approach needed for success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Analysis and Improvement: Identify root causes and drive strategic changes to enhance process efficiency.
- Client Engagement: Lead workshops to understand client needs and propose improvements to their planning and supply chain operations.
- Project Planning: Develop and outline comprehensive project plans, ensuring a clear path to achieve objectives.
- Team Leadership: Guide and mentor your team, fostering their growth and success.
- Project Management: Oversee a functional area within larger programs, managing deliverables, milestones, resources, and costs.
- Process Integration: Ensure all processes are fully integrated and aligned with best practices.
- Playbook Development: Work with clients to create detailed playbooks that document new processes and organizational changes.
- Implementation Guidance: Provide clear direction and support throughout the implementation phase.
- Hands-On Approach: Be actively involved, driving practical and effective outcomes.
- Internal Leadership: Lead and coach your team, supporting their career development.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to internal initiatives aimed at enhancing our own ways of working.
Your skills
- Educational Background: Master’s degree in engineering or economics. An MBA is a plus.
- Professional Experience: At least 6 years of experience in consulting with a strong background in designing or redesigning business processes. Experience with planning projects that involve change and transformation in complex, multinational environments is a plus.
- Analytical Skills: Exceptional problem-solving abilities and a sharp analytical mind.
- Adaptability: Proven ability to work and thrive in fast-paced, international settings. Quick to pose the right questions and translate answers into actionable results.
- Communication Skills: Strong communicator, both with your team and clients.
- Leadership and Coaching: Passion for working with people and a talent for coaching and developing less experienced colleagues.
- Language Proficiency: Fluent in English.
Our offer
- Dynamic Team Environment: Join a highly motivated team of hands-on supply chain professionals, where your contributions make a real impact on people, projects, and clients. Enjoy a work culture with no politics, fast decision-making, and a strong can-do mentality.
- Global Opportunities: Work with leading global clients on innovative projects that have the power to transform industries.
- Empowerment and Trust: From day one, you’ll be trusted to leverage your ambitions, whether in coaching, supporting, or mentoring others.
- Flexible Work Regime: Benefit from a 50/50 hybrid work model that combines the flexibility of working from home with access to our brand-new offices in Aalst and Mechelen.
- Personal and Professional Growth: We encourage you to take initiative and opportunities to enhance your personal and professional skills. Most importantly, you’ll have the freedom to be yourself.