Logistic Consultant Job in Veghel, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

Vanderlande – challenges in motion

Logistic Consultant Job Description

The department
After sales services has become a core business for Vanderlande Industries (VI) and is still growing. The Customer Services department, situated in our headquarters in Veghel, develops service strategies and supports service activities in the customer centers. VI's (high level) controls expertise combined with process expertise is a key-differentiator towards customers. The group Process & Controls Services is part of the Customer Services department and aims to grow after-sales activities for process consultancy and life cycle services for controls. The team comprises 6 FTE's and will be expanded. 

The position
As logistics consultant you advice our existing customers how their logistical process can be optimized. Your advice goes beyond the use of the automated material handling system supplied by VI. After an initial investigation together with the customer, you understand the relevant processes, influencing factors, KPI's and (rough) improvement potential. Together with the service account manager you decide how to proceed taking into account the potential for the customer and the role VI can fulfill in realizing this. The sequel could be a more in-depth analysis leading to recommendations, a continuous improvement program including process engineers on-site or a modification to (the controls software) of the automated material handling system.
Besides you support the process engineers in the customer centers. This can be achieved by training, by sharing best practices between customer centers or by providing means like methodologies and business process data retrieval and analysis applications.

Tasks and responsibilities
Business development

• Identify opportunities for consultancy studies and define approach to sell (together with service account manager).
• Assist and accompany service account manager with acquisition.

• Analyze customer's logistical process, objectives and challenges (e.g. by leading workshops).
• Prepare offer aligned with customer's expectations (approach, deliverables, costs, information requirements, …).
• Analyze process, identify possible improvements and quantify effect of improvements in terms customer's added value.
• Identify follow-up actions together with customer centre. Determine with other specialists which role VI can have in these actions.
• Present recommendations to customer. Advice and convince of follow-up actions.
• Implement or coordinate follow-up actions. 

• Set-up a network of VI's process engineers (to learn, to share experience and resources).
• Train process engineers.
• Be contact person towards customer centers.
• Provide means (e.g. methods)  towards process engineers to perform consultancy studies efficiently.

Logistic Consultant Job Requirements

Your profile

• Bachelor+ or Masters degree
• Industrial automation / Industrial engineering / Logistics Management
• Strong logistic process skills
• Strong analytical skills; able to do quantitative analyses
• More than 6-8 years experience in business process consultancy
• Commercial attitude; sees opportunities and is able to understand customer's business rapidly
• Proactive and result-driven team player 
• Good communication skills 
• Fluent in English
• Willing to travel frequently, up to 50%

Logistic Consultant Application Information

Our offer
Are you a talent that fits with our unique systems and are you seeking the next step in your career? Then we offer potential for you to shape your career. Next to the primary and secondary employment conditions at Vanderlande Industries we offer the chance to join a growing global organization. Once you join Vanderlande Industries you will work at a company that has been chosen as ‘Top Employer’ for 7 years in a row and ‘Best Employer’ for 6 years in a row. 

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