Project Manager

Our client is a large, international organization operating in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment with complex manufacturing and supply chain networks across multiple sites. The business is currently going through a significant operational transition, requiring strong coordination across factories and cross-functional teams to protect continuity and readiness. The Supply Chain Manager will play a central role in keeping a major supply chain transition programme on track.

This person will coordinate priorities, dependencies, milestones and decisions across multiple workstreams, ensuring operational readiness and business continuity while the future operating model is being designed and implemented. The role is based on-site in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and involves working closely with factory and operational stakeholders. Occasional travel (around 10%) is expected for workshops and stakeholder sessions in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities: Act as a key coordination link between programme workstreams, ensuring alignment on priorities, dependencies, actions and decisions. Maintain structured tracking of actions and milestones, ensuring critical deliverables remain on schedule. Monitor progress, highlight bottlenecks early, and escalate risks or delays when required. Coordinate day-to-day activities across supply chain, manufacturing and related functions to support overall programme execution.

Engage with factories and operational teams to support readiness activities, solve issues, and collect required input. Manage programme data requests and reporting, ensuring information is accurate, complete and delivered on time. Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, proposing practical mitigation actions. Support discussions around operational setup changes (e.g., services, permits, security, quality readiness) to enable a smooth “Day 1” transition.

Participate in and help organise stakeholder workshops across the Netherlands.

Requirements: Solid experience in manufacturing and/or supply chain within a complex operational environment (FMCG or similar). Proven ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder projects with multiple workstreams and tight timelines. Comfortable working in factory/operations settings and engaging with operational teams.

Strong organisation skills: planning, tracking, reporting and follow-through. Hands-on approach to resolving issues and removing blockers. Experience with risk/issue management and stakeholder communication at different seniority levels. Engineering or operations-related education/background is a strong advantage.

Other Information: If you are interested and want to apply, please submit your application via the apply button below and contact me. This position is on-site in Rotterdam, with approximately 10% travel for workshops/meetings within the Netherlands.