Pick Pack Manager VCE/Penta

Belgium

Introduction

At Service Market Logistics (SML), we aim to deliver excellent services to our customers, for all Volvo Group brands and JV’s. Our job is to develop, manage and optimize the Service Market supply chain, based on smart logistics solutions. We ensure the highest possible parts availability, delivery precision and quality everywhere in the world.

In our region, we operate the Supply Planning teams, the Central Distribution Center (CDC) in Ghent and the Support Distribution Centers across Europe, and the Service Centers. We embrace our lean journey and we have a strong focus on our agility: how to adapt smart and quick to what really matters to our customers.

Meet your team

Welcome to the CDC Gent, this is the biggest warehouse of the Volvo Group, operated by approximately 800 brilliant and engaged people, who do their outmost daily to receive and deliver spare parts in quality and on time to satisfy our customers, for all brands (Volvo Trucks, VCE, Penta, Volvo Bus, Renault Trucks) in several countries.

We need you to become the manager of the Pick and Pack teams for VCE and Penta brands, the core activity of our Distribution Center. Your teams are in charge of handling daily customer orders by picking the requested parts from a well-managed stock, packing them as if it was gifts and making them ready to be loaded, all of that in the best quality and lead time possible.

You will be the inspiring leaders of First Line Managers and the Quality Coordinator for VCE and Penta, supporting them and their teams daily to make sure orders are prepared in quality and on time. You will help them to make breakthroughs in our Wellbeing Roadmap and our VPS journey in order to provide a sustainable performance to our customer. The warehouse will be your game field, spending time on the shopfloor coaching people and learning from them will be your daily routine.

You will be part of the CDC Management team, together with the Head of the Receive entity, the Head of the Deliver entity and the HR manager. We don’t play solo here, regardless the name of our function, we are all here to secure and improve the E2E performance for our customers and to create a culture of empowerment.

We need a trusted and engaged leader who aims to act according to the Volvo Leadership Values, cares deeply for the well-being and the development of his/ her team members and colleagues and seeks to learn and grow everyday. If it is you, please jump in and join us for the ride!

Your ideal job?

• You are the inspiring leader of First Line Managers and the Quality Coordinator , focused on People development , loving being on the shopfloor with people
• You strive for daily challenges, whilst understanding the tactical context; you love high pace of activities
• You coach people so that they develop a culture of performance and continuous improvement. With the right mindset, you help them to reach strong and sustainable results in all KPI’s (SPQDCE).
• You see unions as a partner and build a constructive cooperation.
• You built and contribute to the CDC Gent strategy, with a special focus in our VPS journey

Are we a perfect match?

Your Profile

• Natural leader, you are an energizing team player beyond the lines of a hierarchical organization
• You are used to spend time on the shopfloor and to interact with people at different levels in the organization
• You know how to coach a team with different responsibilities to help them reach their full potential
• Target driven and customer oriented, you have a good understanding of warehouses processes

Your Qualifications

• Previous significant leadership experience in industrial environment
• Fluent in Dutch (both written and spoken), being able to speak in English is a plus

Almost convinced?

Do you see a challenge as an opportunity? Are you passionate about people management and do you have a positive “can do”-attitude with taking initiatives?

Are you eager to work in a global environment with room for personal and professional development?

Then we have the perfect opportunity for you to work in a global and dynamic organization with highly skilled colleagues. A working environment that truly believes in customer success, trust, passion, performance and change.

Recruitment manager: Fanny Bensaid
HR manager: An Bondue

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success.
www.volvogroup.com/career.

A new era is here. Technologies such as big data, automation and artificial intelligence are changing the way we look at manufacturing and logistics. Volvo Group Trucks Operations is the organization responsible for truck manufacturing and logistics within the Volvo Group and is shaping future industries.

Volvo Group Trucks Operations encompasses all production of the Group’s engines and transmissions as well as the production of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks. The organization is also responsible for spare parts supplies to the Group’s customers and for designing, operating and optimizing logistics and supply chains for all brands. Together, Volvo Group Trucks Operations represents 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global industrial footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, in which continuous improvement is the foundation. Join our teams as well!

123240BR

Group Trucks Operations

Oost-Vlaanderen

Gent (Oostakker)

Regular

Occasional Travel

Logistics

14-Feb-2022