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Project Manager Infra Development

bol

Utrecht
Full-time
10+ years experience
On-site

Key Skills

Project Management
Project Delivery Strategy
Integrated Project Planning
Project Controls
Scope Management
Schedule Management
Budget Management
Risk Management
Requirements Management
Change Management
Stakeholder Management
Supplier Management
Cross-Functional Leadership
Stage-Gate Governance
Operational Readiness
Safety And Compliance

Job Description

How do you make our customers happy? By ensuring that bol's logistics infrastructure keeps pace with our ambitions. As Project Manager Infra Development, you lead complex projects that expand, automate, or improve our fulfilment network. You translate business objectives into a controlled delivery approach, bring together internal teams and external suppliers, and ensure the intended capability is delivered safely, within scope, planning, and budget, and ready for operational use. The biggest challenge Creating control and alignment in high-impact projects where physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, suppliers, and organisational change come together. Requirements evolve, stakeholder interests compete, and implementation often takes place in a live logistics environment. You keep the integral overview, make timely trade-offs, and direct the project team while leaving technical execution with the accountable experts. What You'll Do As Project Manager Infra Development You'll join the Infrastructure Development team, which delivers a broad portfolio of capital-intensive logistics projects. Your first assignment is expected to involve the implementation of robotics in an existing warehouse environment. While this provides the immediate project context, the position is designed for deployment across a broad portfolio of logistics infrastructure projects. You lead large cross-functional projects independently or take ownership of a major stream within a strategic programme, typically involving investments exceeding EUR 10 million and dependencies across operations, IT, automation, engineering, suppliers, and business teams. Define the project delivery strategy and integrated project plan based on business requirements and bol's project management way of working. Lead and direct a multidisciplinary project team, creating clear ownership across operations, IT, automation, engineering, suppliers, and business stakeholders. Own integrated project controls across scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, quality, requirements, and changes. Apply bol's stage-gate process and ensure deliverables and decision proposals meet the required quality before entering governance. Manage major suppliers and integration partners on contractual commitments, interfaces, progress, quality, and performance. Direct implementation, stakeholder alignment, and change management; intervene or escalate when delivery moves off track. Embed safety, permits, compliance, testing, operational readiness, go-live, handover, and lessons learned in the overall project approach. Why you can make a difference You have a proven track record of successfully leading complex cross-functional projects with significant investment levels, multidisciplinary teams, major suppliers, and substantial organisational impact. You combine strong control of scope, planning, budget, risks, requirements, and changes with the ability to direct stakeholders across physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, engineering, and business teams. You can lead projects independently and operate effectively within the direction and governance of a larger programme when required. You understand adjacent technical and business disciplines well enough to challenge assumptions and oversee the impact of decisions without becoming the technical owner. Experience in logistics, automation, industrial, engineering, infrastructure, or similarly complex operational environments is highly valuable, as is experience with brownfield operations, safety, permits, compliance, testing, and operational readiness. Fluency in English is expected; Dutch is desirable. Where you'll work You'll join the Infrastructure Development team within bol's logistics organisation. We deliver the projects that keep our fulfilment network scalable, efficient, safe, compliant, and future-ready. The environment is collaborative and hands-on: we bring different perspectives together, share knowledge openly, and hold each other and our partners accountable for results. Something for you? Integral project leader: You connect requirements, controls, teams, suppliers, and operational readiness into one accountable delivery approach. Pragmatic decision-maker: You create clarity in ambiguity, make timely trade-offs, and intervene when delivery moves off track. Cross-functional leader: You align physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, engineering, and business stakeholders around one outcome. Nothing for you? Technical specialist first: You prefer owning one discipline or solution rather than integrating the full project and its outcome. Status reporter: You focus on reporting progress rather than directing work, managing controls, and driving corrective action. Process avoider: You see governance, safety, permits, or compliance as overhead instead of conditions for successful delivery. We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day. Our annual bonus is tied to sustainability goals, and we are committed to equality and equal opportunities for all.Perks of having a blue heart 29 days: to recharge Travel costs: Public transport, car, parking & charging covered Pension plan: 75% premium covered Annual bonus: Based on sustainability goals

Core Responsibilities

Lead complex logistics infrastructure projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver projects safely, within scope, schedule, and budget. Manage integrated project controls, governance, implementation, change, testing, operational readiness, go-live, and handover.

Requirements

Requires a proven record leading complex, high-investment cross-functional projects with multidisciplinary teams, major suppliers, and significant organizational impact. Strong project controls and stakeholder leadership are expected; experience in logistics, automation, industrial, engineering, infrastructure, or other complex operational environments is valuable, and English fluency is expected while Dutch is desirable.

Benefits

  • 29 Days Of Leave
  • Travel Costs Covered
  • Pension Plan With 75% Of The Premium Covered
  • Annual Bonus Based On Sustainability Goals

About bol

Industry: Retail

Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Bol is the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1999 we opened our virtual doors as first online bookstore in the Netherlands. Nowadays we’re working with 2.000 colleagues to deliver the best shopping platform ever. To be able to do this we have expanded our shopping platform in the 20 years of our existence. 2010 was the beginning of bol.com in Belgium. The first step towards our southern neighbors. And we opened our shopping platform to other retailers, for our customers to be able to find ‘everything’ on bol.com. Since 2016 it is possible for our partners to advertise via bol.com. And in 2017 Huub Vermeulen opened the doors of our bol fulfilment center. Shortly: together with 2.000 bol.commers we work to make the daily lives of our customer easier.

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