Manager NFR Intelligence

Ahold Delhaize; Zaandam; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

First-rate pension plan

45 vacation days per year

Laptop and smartphone

Travel expenses or NS travel card

Bonuses

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize Zaandam is seeking a Manager NFR Intelligence to drive fact-based insights across Europe, strengthen sourcing, and support strategic decision making for category teams. You will lead data-rich analyses, build dashboards in Power BI, and collaborate with procurement to deliver savings and ESG improvements.

You bring a master’s degree and at least 3 years in analytics or consultancy, fluent English, Dutch preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data science, Data analytics, Finance, business administration).
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience, analytics domain and/or consultancy is a plus.
• Experience in complex multi-functional environment with ownership and some supervision.
• Excellent English communication; Dutch is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market trends, commodities and sustainability topics to generate insights and advisory reports.
• Manage the Value Chain database and map relevant value chains across categories.
• Develop, update and maintain a Should Cost Model database.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and self-service tooling; coach stakeholders.
• Create consensus on actionable insights and drive decision making.
• Engage with suppliers to improve ESG performance.

Skills

Fluent English

Dutch preferred

Analytical skills

Data visualization

Storytelling

Education

Master's degree in relevant field (Data science / analytics / Finance / business administration)

Tools

Power BI

Job description

As Manager NFR Intelligence, your main objective is to strengthen the position of our sourcing community with fact-based analysis and actionable insights, in order to drive savings delivery. Your qualities lie in preparing detailed datasets via strong analyses of the market as well as consult on business decisions. Being an important part of the team, you drive, enable and manage strategic decision-making of the category teams and stakeholder field in Europe, built on these fact-based analysis and actionable insights. With this valuable info, we as a team, are able to improve our current services.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

Not for Resale sourcing (NfR) is organized to optimally leverage Ahold Delhaize’s footprint in Europe and drive Ahold Delhaize’s save-4-our customer programs. Sourcing managers in Europe work together in cross-border category teams to run European and local sourcing events. The Procurement Excellence & Sustainability team is a staff function within NFR sourcing that:

• Shapes the NFR department to unlock full European potential (Development scope);
• Equips the sourcing community with actionable insights to drive savings delivery (intelligence scope).
• Engages with suppliers to improve their ESG performance

Every year the European NFR management team creates a list of strategic initiatives in different workstreams. The PES team is responsible for the successful delivery of most of the projects on this strategic roadmap.

As Manager NFR Intelligence you report to the Director NFR Procurement Excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. As the Manager NFR Intelligence, you will be part of identifying innovations within the procurement market, consult on your findings in close corporation with our category managers and optimize end to end lifecycle processes.

Your key tasks include:

Market and supplier Intelligence

(30% of your job), where you provide actionable insights to our stakeholders

• Analyze the market trends, commodity and labor prices, innovations and sustainability topics within selected categories. Based on these sources of information, you generate insights and create advisory reports;
• Identify new and manage external data and insights of service providers, perform demand management for research requests and translate intelligence questions into analytics briefings, where you ensure research outcomes match insights requirements and summarize/translate these to actionable insights and ensure follow up;
• Perform supplier discovery (supplier identification, supplier profiling, benchmarking, market share, SWOT, etc.) and liaise with buying alliances.

Value Chain analysis

(30% of your job) where you identify optimizations in our NfR supply chains :

• Manage the (development of a) Value Chain database in terms of actively, contributing to Value Chain Analysis (VCA) and managing VCA progress across category teams;
• Map relevant value chains within the category, perform activity analysis (tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, …) and identify relevant cost drivers;
• Perform opportunity identification assessments and analyze regulatory environment and perform (internal and external) benchmarks to assess costs, way of working and various sourcing models.

Should Cost modelling

(20%): where you establish a fact-based negotiation position

• Develop, update and maintain a Should Cost Model database, where you investigate the current prices versus the original ones.

Knowledge management

(20%), where you increase our knowledge and our data sets:

• You manage our knowledge resources and assets by developing, updating and maintaining our Impact Dashboard and other self-service tooling and reports in Power BI;
• Foster optimal deployment of analytics capabilities by stakeholders, including coaching and training;
• You create consensus and acceptance of actionable insight proposals and create and maintain a ‘Specification library’ for selected categories.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary between €56K to €69K including holiday pay based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days + 19,5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

The ingredients you bring

Everyone brings their unique flavor. We believe this role comes to life when you bring the following experience:

• A master’s degree in relevant field (e.g., Data science, Data analytics, Finance, business administration).
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience, where experience in the analytics domain and/or consultancy is a welcoming plus;
• Experience in complex multi-functional environment, where you take full ownership and work independently, with (some) supervision of your manager;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in fluent English and preferably Dutch.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some strong analytical skills, data visualization and storytelling, with ability to influence and drive decision making, and proactive mindset.

At Ahold Delhaize we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.