Project Manager Infra Development

bol; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days to recharge

Travel costs covered

Pension plan — 75% premium covered

Annual bonus

Job summary

bol is seeking a Project Manager Infra Development in Utrecht to lead cross-functional logistics infrastructure projects, including the initial robotics in a warehouse and broader capital projects. You translate business objectives into a controlled delivery approach, coordinating internal teams and external suppliers to deliver capabilities on time and within budget.

You will manage complex programs with investments exceeding EUR 10 million, ensuring safety, compliance and operational readiness

Qualifications

• Experience in leading complex cross-functional projects.
• Strong project management and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Define project delivery strategy and integrated project plan.
• Lead a multidisciplinary project team across operations, IT, automation, engineering, suppliers and business stakeholders.
• Own integrated project controls across scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies and changes.
• Apply stage-gate process to ensure deliverables meet quality before governance.
• Manage major suppliers and integration partners on contracts and performance.
• Direct implementation, stakeholder alignment and change management; intervene if delivery moves off track.
• Embed safety, permits, compliance, testing, operational readiness and handover in the project approach.

Education

Bachelor / Master in relevant field

Job description

Project Manager Infra Development
Help deliver projects that truly elevate our logistics capabilities

• Bachelor / Master
• Utrecht
• 10+ year

How do you make our customers happy?

By ensuring that bol's logistics infrastructure keeps pace with our ambitions. As Project Manager Infra Development, you lead complex projects that expand, automate, or improve our fulfilment network. You translate business objectives into a controlled delivery approach, bring together internal teams and external suppliers, and ensure the intended capability is delivered safely, within scope, planning, and budget, and ready for operational use.

Get to know Project Management

This role is part of the Project Management Job Family. Explore this Job Family to learn more about the purpose, key accountabilities and competencies.

The biggest challenge

Creating control and alignment in high-impact projects where physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, suppliers, and organisational change come together. Requirements evolve, stakeholder interests compete, and implementation often takes place in a live logistics environment. You keep the integral overview, make timely trade-offs, and direct the project team while leaving technical execution with the accountable experts.

What you'll do as Project Manager Infra Development

You'll join the Infrastructure Development team, which delivers a broad portfolio of capital-intensive logistics projects. Your first assignment is expected to involve the implementation of robotics in an existing warehouse environment. While this provides the immediate project context, the position is designed for deployment across a broad portfolio of logistics infrastructure projects. You lead large cross-functional projects independently or take ownership of a major stream within a strategic programme, typically involving investments exceeding EUR 10 million and dependencies across operations, IT, automation, engineering, suppliers, and business teams.

• Define the project delivery strategy and integrated project plan based on business requirements and bol's project management way of working.
• Lead and direct a multidisciplinary project team, creating clear ownership across operations, IT, automation, engineering, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
• Own integrated project controls across scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, quality, requirements, and changes.
• Apply bol's stage-gate process and ensure deliverables and decision proposals meet the required quality before entering governance.
• Manage major suppliers and integration partners on contractual commitments, interfaces, progress, quality, and performance.
• Direct implementation, stakeholder alignment, and change management; intervene or escate when delivery moves off track.
• Embed safety, permits, compliance, testing, operational readiness, go-live, handover, and lessons learned in the overall project approach.

Why you can make a difference

You have a proven track record of successfully leading complex cross-functional projects with significant investment levels, multidisciplinary teams, major suppliers, and substantial organisational impact. You combine strong control of scope, planning, budget, risks, requirements, and changes with the ability to direct stakeholders across physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, engineering, and business teams. You can lead projects independently and operate effectively within the direction and governance of a larger programme when required. You understand adjacent technical and business disciplines well enough to challenge assumptions and oversee the impact of decisions without becoming the technical owner. Experience in logistics, automation, industrial, engineering, infrastructure, or similarly complex operational environments is highly valuable, as is experience with brownfield operations, safety, permits, compliance, testing, and operational readiness. Fluency in English is expected; Dutch is desirable.

Integral project leader

You connect requirements, controls, teams, suppliers, and operational readiness into one accountable delivery approach.

Pragmatic decision-maker

You create clarity in ambiguity, make timely trade-offs, and intervene when delivery moves off track.

Cross-functional leader

You align physical infrastructure, IT, automation, operations, engineering, and business stakeholders around one outcome.

Technical specialist first

You prefer owning one discipline or solution rather than integrating the full project and its outcome.

Status reporter

You focus on reporting progress rather than directing work, managing controls, and driving corrective action.

Process avoider

You see governance, safety, permits, or compliance as overhead instead of conditions for successful delivery.

Where you'll work

You'll join the Infrastructure Development team within bol's logistics organisation. We deliver the projects that keep our fulfilment network scalable, efficient, safe, compliant, and future-ready. The environment is collaborative and hands-on: we bring different perspectives together, share knowledge openly, and hold each other and our partners accountable for results.

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