Industrialization Logistics Team Leader

• A responsible leadership position with direct influence on supply chain and production readiness.
• The opportunity to build and professionalize a new logistics industrialization department.
• Plenty of room to improve processes, systems, collaboration, and team development.
• Working on complex technical projects for, among others, machine building, medical, semiconductor, and defense.
• An open and informal working atmosphere with short lines and involved colleagues.
• Good employment conditions matching your knowledge and experience.
• Profit sharing.
• 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days for full-time employment.
• A good pension scheme.
• Room for personal development through training and education.
• Growth opportunities within VDL Konings and VDL Group.

Your role

As Industrialization Logistics Team Leader, you will lead a new multidisciplinary team of professionals in the fields of supply chain engineering, logistics process development, material strategy, and product introduction. You will further build the team, establish clear responsibilities, and develop a uniform way of working for logistics industrialization.

You are responsible for designing, testing, and realizing the logistics chain for new products and product changes: from the concept and quotation stages through to prototype construction, pilot production, ramp-up, and transfer to the regular supply chain organization. Together with engineering, purchasing, and production, you determine how materials become available and flow in a controlled manner through the chain and factory.

You monitor the coherence between bill of materials, make/buy strategy, supplier readiness, lead times, material planning, inventory, capacity, packaging, storage, and internal logistics. You ensure that supply chain risks are mitigated in a timely manner and that the logistics setup fits both customer-specific single units and repetitive production.

What will you do?

• Directing, coaching, and developing the Industrialization Logistics team.
• Building and professionalizing the new department, including roles, consultation structures, standards, and priorities.
• Planning and monitoring the logistics industrialization portfolio for new products, changes, and improvement projects.
• Developing supply chain concepts and material strategies from the early project and product development phase.
• Coordinating make/buy trade-offs, supplier readiness, critical components, and alternative sources in collaboration with strategic purchasing.
• Analyzing and controlling lead times, MOQs, batch sizes, capacity, inventory risks, working capital, and supply security.
• Setting up and testing material control, master data, and ERP/MRP parameters for prototype, pilot, ramp-up, and volume production.
• Ensuring a complete and usable bill of materials structure and controlled processing of engineering changes and configurations.
• Designing and improving internal material flows, kitting, line feeding, packaging, storage, and point-of-use availability.
• Preparing and guiding prototype construction, pilots, and scaling up, with a focus on timely material availability and supply chain risks.
• Aligning with project management, engineering, strategic and operational purchasing, planning, quality, production, and Industrialization Engineering.
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks regarding suppliers, material, capacity, logistics, costs, and customer planning.
• Steering on material readiness, delivery reliability, lead time, inventory, integral costs, and a controlled transfer to the line organization.
• Initiating improvements in supply chain methods, logistics standards, systems, and lessons learned.
• Reporting on progress, risks, decision points, deviations, and logistics production readiness.

Industrialization Logistics sets up the material, supplier, and logistics chain. The parallel department, Industrialization Engineering, determines how the product can be technically manufactured, assembled, and tested. Both teams work together in the same NPI projects from the concept phase and jointly provide substantiated advice on product and production readiness.

Your strength

You are a strong and connecting supply chain leader who is analytically strong and close to the operation. You understand how choices in design, bill of materials, sourcing, planning, and logistics influence each other. You can calculate scenarios and structure processes, but you also walk the shop floor to see if the material flow truly functions.

You bring calm to uncertainty, make risks discussable, and ensure that decisions are taken in a timely manner. You provide direction to specialists, build collaboration between departments, and keep an eye on both the customer promise and integral costs and feasibility.

At VDL Konings, you work closely to development and production. You see how product choices impact material availability, logistics, and delivery reliability and can exert influence on them from the start. The projects are varied, technically challenging, and intended for demanding high-tech markets.

Furthermore, this position offers something special: you do not step into an existing structure, but you get the space to further shape the Industrialization Logistics department. You build the team, the way of working, and the supply chain standards with which VDL Konings brings new products to production faster and in a more controlled manner.

Are you the team leader who smartly connects product development, suppliers, material, and production? And do you get energy from developing a team and designing robust supply chains for new products? Then we would love to get in touch with you.

Apply for the position of Industrialization Logistics Team Leader at VDL Konings and help build an organization in which new products are made technically and logistically ready for production from the very beginning.