Senior Project Manager Warehouse Realization

Project overview

About the client

Our client is a leading organization with an extensive logistics network in the Netherlands. To accommodate growth in the coming years, the organization is investing heavily in the expansion and improvement of its distribution and warehouse capacity.

The assignment

Within the logistics organization, a team works that is responsible for large-scale infrastructure projects, with budgets running into tens of millions of euros. Think of outsourced warehouses, brownfield transformations, and large parts of greenfield programs. For this team, we are looking for an experienced project manager to lead these projects from strategy to operational handover.

Your first project is the realization of a dedicated warehouse that is designed and operated by a logistics service provider. You will be responsible for the delivery, integration with the existing network, go-live, and ramp-up. Afterwards, you will be deployed on other strategic projects within the portfolio.

The complexity lies mainly in the convergence of business, technology, operations, suppliers, and organizational change. You will maintain an overview of all workstreams, make choices where interests conflict, and remain ultimately responsible for the result.

Your responsibilities

Who we are looking for

Required:

• Developing the execution strategy and an integrated project plan based on strategic goals and business requirements
• Managing multidisciplinary teams, internal departments, suppliers, and partners
• Monitoring scope, planning, budget, risks, quality, dependencies, changes, and the business case
• Contract and supplier management, including intervention when performance lags
• Integrating safety, permits, compliance, testing, go-live, ramp-up, and handover into one approach
• Preparing decision proposals and reports for management and steering committees
• Further professionalizing the project approach within the team and coaching fellow project managers
• Demonstrable experience in leading large, capital-intensive projects, from definition through to go-live and ramp-up
• Project experience in logistics, infrastructure, engineering, industry, automation, or a similarly complex operational environment
• Strong in project control and able to connect business, operational, commercial, and technical interests
• Persuasive towards directors and external partners
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience with large contracts, permits, compliance, and operational readiness
• Experience with outsourced execution models, logistics service providers, or outsourced fulfillment
• Proficiency in the Dutch language

Project details

• Start: 01/12/2026
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Utrecht, Netherlands, NL
• Rate: 100-115 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch