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FoodTech is hot! If you’re looking for a challenging Tech leadership role with impact, keep reading! Warning ahead; this is not for the faint-hearted
About how we fill the plates of more than 6 million customers
Albert Heijn goes way back; more than 135 years. For millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands.
Over 16 million transactions per week? Check. Over 1000 suppliers of goods at our loading docks? Check. Over 20000sku's in our supply chain? Check. Multiple deliveries per day to more than 1,200 stores? Check. Crossing borders? Check. The leading food retail platform? Check.
We build it, we run it and we love it.
So, what’s next?
We want to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company by leveraging data and technology to future-proof grocery shopping. Our purpose is to make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. At AH Technology, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, product and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common purpose: to create solutions that make our supply chain simpler and more effective, both online and in our stores. We are omnichannel. We invest heavily in tech.
That includes investing in your career! Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food?
The job
As the new Head of Tech of Supply Chain Planning technology, you will be responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership to one of Albert Heijn’s core retail technology product clusters. In this cluster you’ll be driving Albert Heijn’s ambition to grow sustainably our supply chain. Shelf availability and reducing food-waste are two constant factors to balance. You are responsible for the tech that enables our supply chain business teams to make the best tactical decision for the AH supply chain. Whilst battling our beloved but constraining legacy stack. With a talented and ambitious group of software engineers, engineering managers, solution consultants and project managers you will be working on DevSecOps and project based initiatives. You lead distributed teams with team members in several countries including The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Romania and Poland. Our dominant technologies are Oracle, Java, Kotlin, React and Outsystems. They expose data to various parts of Albert Heijn through Kotlin APIs and Kafka streams to our internal services and our data platform.
You are a seasoned and ambitious technology leader with an engineering background, you put people first and have a strong sense of financial discipline. You focus on making your teams and tech solutions better every day, developing tech solutions at scale for Albert Heijn. You will report to the VP of Technology of the Stores & Supply chain Technology platform. And you will be part of an MT with likeminded tech enthusiasts.
Your key responsibilities include:
Technical Strategy and Vision: Define and execute the technical strategy and vision for your product cluster, aligning it with the overall architectural guidelines, AH Tech Objectives and Key Results and business objectives. Stay on top of (cross) industry trends, emerging technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
Team Leadership: Manage and inspire your team of software engineers, engineering managers, solution consultants and project managers. Foster a networking and high-performance culture, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to drive their professional growth. Encourage innovation and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team. Drive a healthy balance between internal and external engineers on team level.
Software Development Lifecycle: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and ongoing maintenance. Ensure the adoption of best practices, methodologies, and tools to optimize efficiency, quality, and delivery timelines. Champion delivery at scale, security by design and end-to-end observability processes within the team.
Technical Architecture: You implement and foster the technical architecture and infrastructure of your system landscape, ensuring scalability, security, cost effectiveness and performance. Collaborate with architects and engineers to design robust and scalable solutions that meet business requirements.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Strategy & Analytics, Platform Enablement and Engineering Enablement teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment of technology with product roadmaps. Work with stakeholders to understand their needs, gather feedback, and drive the delivery of innovative features and enhancements.
Quality Assurance and Testing: Establish and maintain quality assurance processes and standards to ensure the delivery of reliable and secure, bug-free software. Implement automated testing frameworks and tools to streamline the testing process and improve overall product quality.
Technology Partnerships: Identify and evaluate strategic technology partnerships, vendors, and third-party integrations that can enhance the capabilities and offerings of the software development platform. Foster strong relationships with key partners while remaining cost aware, take part in partner governance structures and manage collaboration. Participate actively in RFI/RFP for your products.
Risk Management and Compliance: Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges that could impact your technology platform's performance, security, or stability. Implement robust security measures and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations and Ahold Delhaize policies.
Budget and Cost Management: Manage the annual budgets and costs for your product cluster. This includes planning and watching over both change and run costs for people, services and technology assets. Drive FinOps best practices in the team and define project to drive down costs within a short and longer horizon.
Your profile
· A technology related Bachelor or Master degree plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering management experience. preferable work experience in Data, Planning, Supply chain.
· Proven experience on recent and modern applied architectures, techniques, methods, products and services within the field of working (e.g. microservices architecture, cloud technologies, observability frameworks, Kafka streaming).
· Relevant experience with Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, release management in a complex (multi-vendor) environment
· Elaborate experience in leading and transforming distributed technology teams
· Knowledge and experience with budgeting and cost responsibility processes
· Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
· Strong leadership and management skills and experience
· Ability to challenge subject matter experts content wise
· Strong stakeholder management skills
· English and Dutch professional working proficiency
Our Offer
· A gross annual salary of € 94-124K (including holiday pay), attractive bonus, stock options plus a first-rate pension plan with a personal contribution of just 6.2% and an electric company car (or car allowance);
· The development and career prospects you associate with a global player: best-in-class coaching, well-constructed growth paths and international, cross-brand career options
· 20 vacation days, supplemented by a personal budget: take an additional 12.5 days off, opt for discounts, or simply take the cash
· Flexible working hours, hybride way of working
· Travel allowance (or NS traject business card) , discounts on health insurance and groceries
· The chance to drive meaningful change – healthy, affordable, sustainably produced food matters – on a truly global scale Membership in a lively and diverse tech community
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Wat we vragen?
- True tech-savvy
- Passion for your expertise
- Inspiring leadership