Director of Processes & Innovation (m/f/d)

KRÜGER – Personal Headhunting; Vlaanderen; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strategic leadership role

Handover phase

Competitive remuneration

Job summary

KRÜGER – Personal Headhunting is representing an internationally active, family-owned textile manufacturer with a full value chain from fibre to finished fabric. The Director of Processes & Innovation will shape strategy, own certification programs, and drive continuous improvements across spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing.

The role requires strong leadership, deep experience in textile processes, and fluency in French or Dutch/Flemish with English.

Qualifications

• Several years of leadership within textile industry
• Strong process optimization and management systems expertise
• Experience with certifications and audits in regulated industries
• Hands-on, structured leader who drives change cross-functionally

Responsibilities

• Shape and implement the company’s innovation and process strategy
• Own management systems and certifications; ensure audit readiness
• Coordinate product certifications (OEKO-TEX®, GOTS, GRS, OCS, BCI)
• Develop production standards, methods and process documentation
• Maintain product definitions and central catalogue
• Lead the laboratory organisation and investments for efficiency
• Interface with IT and digitalisation initiatives; support R&D projects

Skills

Leadership experience

Process optimization

ISO 9001 experience

Audits in regulated industries

Education

Textile Engineering degree

Industrial Engineering degree

Materials Science degree

Job description

Our client is an internationally active, family-owned textile manufacturer with a long-standing heritage and an outstanding reputation for high-quality textile solutions. As a vertically integrated producer, the company controls the entire value chain – from fibre to finished fabric – serving customers in public procurement, protective workwear and technical textiles.

Against the backdrop of dynamic growth and increasing operational complexity, the strategic leadership position of Director of Processes & Innovation is now being filled.

Your responsibilities

• Shape and implement the company’s innovation and process strategy in alignment with long-term growth and sustainability objectives
• Take ownership of management systems—especially ISO 9001—and certifications and guarantee international audit readiness; coordinate product certifications such as OEKO-TEX®, GOTS, GRS, OCS and BCI
• Further develop production standards, methodologies and process documentation across the full value chain (spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing)
• Maintain and develop product definitions, specifications and the central product catalogue as basis for production, sales and quality
• Lead the laboratory organisation, ensuring technical standards, investment planning, efficiency and continuous testing improvement
• Act as a central interface to IT and digitalisation initiatives, defining requirements and supporting system evolution
• Contribute to R&D and Innovation projects

Your Profile

• Completed degree in Textile Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science or a comparable technical discipline
• Several years of leadership experience within the textile industry, ideally in a vertically integrated production environment
• Strong process optimisation and management systems expertise; spinning or yarn experience is a plus
• Solid experience with certifications and audits in regulated industries
• A hands-on, structured personality with credibility on the shop floor, who leads cross-functionally and drives change with natural authority
• Business-fluent French or Dutch/Flemish and fluent English

We Offer

• A strategic key role reporting directly to the Management Board
• Significant scope for shaping the future of the business
• An attractive remuneration package including additional benefits and a structured handover phase