Senior Project Manager Infra Development

bol; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days to recharge

Public transport & travel costs are at

Pension plan 75% premium covered

Annual bonus based on sustainability

Job summary

bol is seeking a Senior Project Manager Infra Development to lead strategically important logistics projects that expand our fulfilment network in the Netherlands. You translate objectives into delivery plans, align internal teams and external partners, and ensure safe, on-time go-lives within scope and budget.

You will manage cross-functional streams, govern project controls, and coach other project managers while coordinating with directors and stakeholders across bol.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master degree in a relevant field.
• Fluency in English is expected; Dutch is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define the delivery strategy and integrated project plan.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and major workstreams across bol, suppliers, and partners, while maintaining end accountability for the project outcome.
• Own integrated project controls and governance across scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality, requirements, dependencies, changes, and business-case outcomes.
• Manage strategic suppliers and partners on contracts, interfaces, progress, performance, operational readiness, and value for money.
• Embed safety, permits, compliance, testing, go-live, ramp-up, and handover in one coherent delivery approach.
• Resolve strategic risks and competing interests across organisational boundaries and provide clear decision proposals and transparent reporting to directors and governance bodies.
• Improve project delivery standards and coach project managers across Infrastructure Development.

Skills

Logistics

Project Management

Education

Bachelor / Master

Job description

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

• Bachelor / Master
• Utrecht
• 10+ year
• Logistics
• Project Management

How do you make our customers happy?

By ensuring that bol's most strategic logistics investments translate into reliable network capabilities. As Project Manager Infra Development, you lead complex, cross-organisational projects that expand or improve our fulfilment network. You translate strategic objectives into a controlled delivery approach, align internal teams and external partners, and ensure the intended capability is delivered safely, within scope, planning, and budget, and ready for operational use.

The biggest challenge

Creating direction, control, and alignment in strategic, high-risk projects where business requirements, technology, operations, suppliers, and organisational change come together. Dependencies span several workstreams and organisational boundaries. You keep the integral overview, resolve competing interests, and remain accountable for the project outcome while directing multiple teams and senior stakeholders.

What you'll do as Project Manager Infra Development

You'll join the Infrastructure Development team, which delivers a broad portfolio of strategic, capital-intensive logistics projects, typically with budgets exceeding EUR 100 million. Assignments range from outsourced warehouses and cross-functional brownfield transformations to major streams within greenfield warehouse programmes. Your first assignment is expected to focus on the delivery, integration, go-live, and ramp-up of a dedicated warehouse designed and operated by a logistics service provider. The role is designed for deployment across our broader portfolio of strategic logistics infrastructure projects.

• Define the delivery strategy and integrated project plan, translating strategic objectives and business requirements into clear priorities, accountabilities, and outcomes.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and major workstreams across bol, suppliers, and partners, while maintaining end accountability for the project outcome.
• Own integrated project controls and governance across scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality, requirements, dependencies, changes, and business-case outcomes.
• Manage strategic suppliers and partners on contracts, interfaces, progress, performance, operational readiness, and value for money, intervening when delivery falls short.
• Embed safety, permits, compliance, testing, go-live, ramp-up, and handover in one coherent delivery approach.
• Resolve strategic risks and competing interests across organisational boundaries and provide clear decision proposals and transparent reporting to directors and governance bodies.
• Improve project delivery standards and coach project managers across Infrastructure Development.

Why you can make a difference

You have a proven track record of leading large, strategic, capital-intensive projects and remain accountable from definition through go-live and ramp-up. Project experience in logistics, infrastructure, engineering, industrial, automation, or similarly complex operational environments is essential. You combine strong project controls with the ability to integrate business, operational, commercial, and technical perspectives, direct multiple teams, and influence directors and external partners. Experience with major contracts, safety, permits, compliance, operational readiness, and outsourced delivery models is highly valuable. Experience working with logistics service providers or outsourced fulfilment models is a plus, not a prerequisite. Fluency in English is expected; Dutch is desirable.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

Switch to find out

• Integral programme leader
  You connect strategy, requirements, controls, teams, and partners into one accountable delivery approach.
• Strategic decision-maker
  You resolve competing interests and create clear choices for senior stakeholders without losing delivery pace.
• Outcome owner
  You remain accountable through integration, go-live, ramp-up, and realisation of the intended business value.
• Single-domain specialist
  You prefer leading one technical discipline rather than integrating the full project and its business outcome.
• Contract spectator
  You assume contracts or governance will manage performance without active leadership and intervention.
• Consensus seeker
  You postpone difficult decisions until everyone agrees, even when speed and clear ownership are required.

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.

We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day.

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