Head of Product - Core Logistics

bol; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days to recharge

Travel costs

Public transport, car, parking & 5

Pension plan

Annual bonus

Based on sustainability goals

Job summary

bol is seeking a Head of Product - Core Logistics to lead a multi-product area across Capacity Steering, Delivery, and Order Flow in the Netherlands. You will shape the vision, set priorities, and align 60+ engineers and data scientists to deliver measurable value in a fast-changing e‑commerce logistics network.

You will drive KPI frameworks, cost metrics, and AI initiatives to reduce operational costs while growing capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong product leadership in complex, tech-driven environments.
• Experience turning strategy into execution with measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI initiatives and analytics in logistics.

Responsibilities

• Define and own area product strategy and portfolio.
• Lead senior product leaders and a large cross-functional team.
• Drive data-driven product development with KPI frameworks and experimentation.
• Focus on financial outcomes like cost per item and carrier economics.
• Shape AI initiatives to reduce operational costs and enable autonomous logistics.
• Align senior stakeholders across Product, Tech, Commercial, and Operations.

Skills

Product leadership

Data-driven decisions

KPI frameworks

Experimentation

Education

Bachelor / Master

Job description

Accelerate a logistics network that always delivers

Head of Product - Core Logistics

• Utrecht
• Bachelor / Master
• 8.500-10.600
• 10+ year

The biggest challenge

Core Logistics is at the heart of bol's ambition to transform logistics into a competitive advantage. International partner volume is growing fast, expanding both the reach and the demands on the network. Simultaneously, bol is making significant strategic bets across a range of topics. These include a new warehouse going live in 2028, AI initiatives and robotics programs to reduce labor costs, out-of-home delivery scaling, and a VvB (shipment via bol) proposition that needs to accommodate millions of additional parcels.

Your challenge is to accelerate this agenda. That means raising the ambition of your teams, sharpening their focus, and maximizing impact at the pace this transformation requires. It also means bringing both internal stakeholders and external partners along. How do you create and foster the necessary shared understanding and the level of commitment that turns strategy into execution? And while you push forward, the network cannot blink. Reliability is non-negotiable.

What you will do as Head of Product - Core Logistics

You report to the Domain Director of Product & Technology and lead a multi-product area: typically 4 product groups and over 30 colleagues in indirect scope, a mix of Group Product Managers, Senior PMs, and Logistics Process Engineers. Beyond your direct team, you inspire and align over 60 engineers and data scientists who help turn logistics ambitions into reality.

You set and drive a clear product vision and long-term strategy for the area, translate that into a coherent portfolio with actionable priorities, and own the investment decisions and resource allocation. You’ll establish the right KPI frameworks and experimentation practices that facilitate outcome-driven decision making. Success at this level calls for two things: delivering the right outcomes today, and developing product leaders who deliver exceptional results tomorrow.

• Define and own the area product strategy, ensuring alignment with the overall company strategy and cross-domain dependencies
• Translate our ambitions into a coherent product portfolio with explicit prioritization across strategic, commercial, and technical needs
• Lead, accelerate, and develop a team of senior product leaders with strong craft, clear accountability, and consistent execution
• Drive data-driven product development through KPI frameworks and experimentation, with a focus on financial outcomes, including cost per item, reverse logistics costs, and partner economics
• Shape and steer the product vision for AI initiatives that structurally reduce operational costs and advance bol toward more autonomous logistics solutions
• Own cross-domain problem-solving, expertly navigating trade-offs across business, technology, and operational needs
• Align senior stakeholders across Product, Technology, Commercial, and Operations on priorities and outcomes
• Shape cross-functional ways of working that enable efficient, end-to-end value delivery, and contribute to company-wide product and tech practices, in close collaboration with our craft lead

Why you can make a difference

You have strong product leadership experience in complex, technology-driven environments, ideally in supply chain, logistics, or related operational domains. You read a logistics network the way others read a P&L statement, and understand how data, AI, and operational systems connect to cost, speed, and reliability. You can turn those insights into a product strategy that is ambitious, compelling and feasible. You have successfully led senior product leaders before, and know how to inspire product craftsmanship. When stakeholders, trade-offs, and constraints multiply, you drive clarity, and make sure everyone stays on the same page. Making high-impact decisions comes naturally, even before every question is answered, and every risk is mitigated.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

Network as a product

You view the logistics network as a valuable product that requires its own strategy and economics. Capacity models, carrier integrations, and AI programs are crucial milestones on your roadmap.

Accelerator of leaders

You speed teams up by developing people, inspiring agency and ownership. With you around, Group PMs and Senior PMs become sharper, faster, and more autonomous.

Commitment cultivator

Aligning Product, Tech, Commercial, and Operations behind one priority is what you excel at. You make trade-offs explicit, make the calls, and aren’t afraid to roll with the potential punches.

Deck-driven director

Your favorite steering tool is a review meeting with a slide deck. The warehouse floor, the data, and fire drills? Quarterly visits preferred.

Hierarchy loyalist

Impact earned through expertise, enthusiasm, and credibility? You prefer the kind of authority that comes printed on a business card.

Steady-state strategist

You design brilliant features for networks that are not live yet or can be paused for rework. Switching between strategic thinking and the operational nitty-gritty is the stuff of nightmares.

Where you'll be working

You will join bol's Core Logistics area within the Logistics & Warehousing domain: 11 product teams spanning Capacity Steering, Delivery, Logistics Channel Foundation, and Order Flow. Together they cover the full operational chain, from S&OP planning and daily network capacity steering to the delivery promises we make online, including the final mile to the customer. This role places you at the heart of one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the Netherlands and Belgium. With multiple warehouses and carriers that need to fulfill millions of shipments, your impact is tangible. If you succeed, 14 million customers and 43,300 partner will have a better experience on our platform. The complexity is real. The mandate is clear. Can you deliver?

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