Senior Interim Manager Learning Operations - Veldhoven

Trinamics; Breda; On-site; EUR 67,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent position

Transfer to client possibility

Extensive compensation package

Personal and professional development

Job summary

Trinamics is seeking a senior operations lead to manage the academy's vendor ecosystem, ensuring alignment with procurement, finance, and external suppliers. You will own contracts, negotiate renewals, and drive governance while advancing learning technology initiatives.

You will oversee learning content providers, optimize supplier performance, and push for cost efficiencies. The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution in a global, high-tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field.
• Experience in vendor management, supplier management, procurement or operational leadership.
• Experience managing contracts and external supplier relationships in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Excellent English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the academy's vendor operations and act as the primary liaison between the academy, Procurement, Finance and external suppliers.
• Ensure alignment between business priorities, vendor activities and financial governance, and monitor supplier performance and service quality.
• Identify and implement operational efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities, and drive process improvements that increase effectiveness and transparency.
• Manage the relationships with learning content and technology providers and act as contract owner for the strategic learning suppliers.
• Lead contract renewals, negotiations and commercial discussions together with Procurement, Legal, IT and business stakeholders, and ensure contractual compliance and value realisation.
• Support the evolution and optimisation of the learning technology landscape with IT, the LXP/LMS teams and content providers, and advise on technology-enabled learning.
• Drive adoption and effective use of the learning platforms and content solutions.
• Coordinate the Learning Studio initiatives until handover: intake, prioritisation, planning and delivery of learning production services, maximising reuse and standardisation.
• Coordinate and support the academy leadership team, drive the execution of portfolio initiatives and prepare governance materials, reporting and operational updates.
• Support impact and value reporting and contribute to strategic and cross-academy collaboration initiatives.

Skills

Vendor management

Procurement

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Learning technologies

Financial governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Learning & Development, HR, Procurement, Information Management or related field

Tools

LMS platforms

Job description

• Lead and coordinate the academy's vendor operations and act as the primary liaison between the academy, Procurement, Finance and the external suppliers.
• Ensure alignment between business priorities, vendor activities and financial governance, and monitor supplier performance and service quality.
• Identify and implement operational efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities, and drive process improvements that increase effectiveness and transparency.
• Manage the relationships with learning content and technology providers and act as contract owner for the strategic learning suppliers.
• Lead contract renewals, negotiations and commercial discussions together with Procurement, Legal, IT and business stakeholders, and ensure contractual compliance and value realisation.
• Support the evolution and optimisation of the learning technology landscape with IT, the LXP/LMS teams and content providers, and advise on technology-enabled learning.
• Drive adoption and effective use of the learning platforms and content solutions.
• Coordinate the Learning Studio initiatives until handover: intake, prioritisation, planning and delivery of learning production services, maximising reuse and standardisation.
• Coordinate and support the academy leadership team, drive the execution of portfolio initiatives and prepare governance materials, reporting and operational updates.
• Support impact and value reporting and contribute to strategic and cross-academy collaboration initiatives.

Must-haves

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Learning & Development, HR, Procurement, Information Management or a related field.
• Relevant experience in vendor management, supplier management, procurement or operational leadership.
• Experience managing contracts and external supplier relationships in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Experience with learning technologies, learning management systems, digital learning platforms or IT-enabled services.
• Knowledge of procurement processes and governance, content management, operational excellence and supplier performance management.
• Strong organisational, communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills, an analytical mindset and the drive to complete initiatives independently.
• Excellent English language skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience within a corporate academy or a large international learning organisation.
• Dutch language skills.

• A gross monthly salary between € 6,000 and € 7,000 (job grade 9.3), depending on your knowledge and experience, plus a 13th month and profit sharing.
• Always a permanent job; no temporary projects.
• After an agreed period, a transfer to the client is a possibility.
• An extensive package of secondary employment conditions.
• Plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development.
• A visible role in the academy of a leading international high-tech organisation, with a broad network across procurement, finance, IT and learning.