Digital Change Project Manager

La Lorraine Bakery Group; Ninove; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

La Lorraine Bakery Group seeks a Digital Change Project Manager to drive the digital transformation of our Frozen Bakery plants across Europe. You bridge Operations and IT & Data, translate business challenges into scalable digital solutions, and own end-to-end delivery from idea to adoption on the shop floor.

Fluent in English with 5+ years in manufacturing, you will lead multi-site projects, prioritise requirements with Operational Excellence, and ensure measurable benefits in waste, quality

Qualifications

• Master's degree, or equivalent through experience, and at least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably food or FMCG, with real shopfloor exposure.
• Proven track record owning projects end to end in a multi-site or international context.
• Strong in business analysis: move from vague business complaint to a clear, testable functional requirement.
• Fluent in English and willing to travel 15-20% across European sites.
• Familiar with manufacturing systems such as MES and ERP production modules and with reporting platforms.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher is a strong asset.

Responsabilités

• Drive the digital transformation of Frozen Bakery plants across Europe and ensure initiatives deliver real shopfloor impact in waste, quality and efficiency.
• Bridge Operations and IT & Data, translating business challenges into scalable digital solutions and owning end-to-end delivery from idea to adoption.
• Coordinate improvements across processes, master data, ways of working and roles; define baseline and track benefits post go-live.
• Train, coach and lead by example; build a strong user network to enable self-sufficiency at plants.
• Partner with Operational Excellence to prioritise requirements and align the digital roadmap with business value.

Connaissances

Project management

Business analysis

Manufacturing systems MES/ERP

Data & reporting

Lean Six Sigma

Formation

Master's degree or equivalent

Outils

MES

ERP production modules

Reporting platforms

Description du poste

As Digital Change Project Manager, you drive the digital transformation of our Frozen Bakery plants across Europe. You ensure that digital initiatives do not stay on paper but create real impact on the shopfloor through less waste, higher quality and improved operational efficiency. Acting as the bridge between Operations and IT & Data, you translate business challenges into scalable digital solutions and take ownership from idea to successful adoption. You engage with the local sites to understand their business needs and challenge them until the underlying problem and its value are clear. You act as business domain expert for the manufacturing processes in scope: you know how the lines run and where the losses sit. Together with Operational Excellence you prioritise the requirements, so that the digital roadmap and the improvement agenda point in the same direction. You translate business needs into functional requirements and work with the IT & Data team to shape the technical solution. You own the what and the why, IT & Data own the how, and you keep the two connected. You take end-to-end ownership of your projects: functional scope, planning, stakeholders, risks and budget follow-up, through validation and business sign-off up to formal handover to and acceptance by the business requester. You coordinate improvements across processes, master data, ways of working and roles, ensuring that technology delivers sustainable business value. You design for scale, so that what is built for one site can be rolled out to the others. You define the baseline before the start and track the delivered benefit after go‑live, in waste, quality and efficiency. Lessons learned feed back into the roadmap, and initiatives that do not deliver are reworked or stopped. You are a visible digital ambassador across the sites: you train, coach and lead by example, build a key user network so plants become self‑sufficient, and spend meaningful time on the shopfloor, because adoption is won at the line and not in the meeting room. You are part of the Operations Digital Strategy team, representing the business side of Frozen Bakery (approx. 1 BEUR revenue and strongly growing), and you report to the Head of Operations Digital Strategy. You will work from one of our La Lorraine offices in Belgium (Ninove/haaltert/Erpe-Mere), Poland (Warsaw/Novy Dwor) or Czecia (Prague/Kladno). You have a Master's degree, or equivalent through experience, and at least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably food or FMCG, with real shopfloor exposure. You have a proven track of owning projects end to end in a multi-site or international context, and you are strong in business analysis: you move from a vague business complaint to a clear, testable functional requirement. You are comfortable in the language of both worlds: production and operational KPIs on one side, systems, data and integration on the other. You are familiar with manufacturing systems such as MES and ERP production modules and with reporting platforms. A continuous improvement background (Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher) is a strong asset. You get things done without hierarchical authority: you connect easily with operators and plant managers alike, you build capability in others rather than becoming the single point of dependency, and you keep going when change in a running plant gets slow and contested. You are fluent in English and you are willing to travel 15-20% across our European sites. You will join an international family-owned company with a strong long-term vision, where more than 5,700 passionate colleagues work together and are driven by five core values. We invest in a positive and engaging work environment through a variety of sports activities and team events. Every day, you'll literally experience our passion through our fresh, innovative, and high-quality products. You'll contribute to building a better world, with sustainability being a key priority across our company. You'll have plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in a dynamic environment. Our LLBG Academy supports you in becoming the best version of yourself.