Senior Operations Manager

🏢 DP World
📍 Tilburg, NetherlandsFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 5mo ago🔄 Updated: 4mo ago
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As a Senior Operations Manager, you will oversee end-to-end site operations, focusing on strong operational and financial performance, fulfillment operations, day-to-day planning, and long-term operational strategy. You will collaborate with various departments to drive performance, continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and safe operations. Key responsibilities include managing operational budgets, leading teams, developing strategies to improve performance and service quality, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. To be successful in this role, you should have a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Logistics, Engineering, Production, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. You need at least 5 years of experience in operations management with site-level responsibility, a strong understanding of operational processes and KPIs, proven leadership and team development skills, and excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration abilities. A proactive and resilient approach to continuous improvement is also essential.
Required Skills
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Data AnalysisCommunicationLeadershipProblem Solving
Information Technology
Dashboards
Nice to have:
Business, Sales & Management
Process Improvement
Finance, Legal & Governance
Budgeting
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Stakeholder Management
🎁 Benefits & Perks
market competitive compensation package
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Logistics, Engineering, Production, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. Must have 5+ years of experience in operations management, with responsibility for site-level operations. Strong understanding of operational processes, production KPIs, and performance management. Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop teams. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including working with data and dashboards. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. A proactive, adaptable, and resilient approach to continuous improvement.
Description

About the role

As a (Senior) Operations Manager, you oversee end‑to‑end site operations to ensure strong operational and financial performance. You are responsible for fulfilment operations, day‑to‑day planning, and long‑term operational strategy. Working closely with the Site Manager and cross‑functional partners (Engineering, Logistics, Quality, HR, Finance, and EH&S), you drive performance, continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and safe operations across the site.

 

How you will contribute

  • Oversee and drive overall operational performance
  • Manage and optimize operational budgets and resources
  • Lead, mentor, and supervise site teams
  • Develop and execute strategies to improve performance and service quality
  • Ensure compliance with operational policies, procedures, and KPIs
  • Lead operational improvement initiatives and change management
  • Coordinate production and repair operations across departments
  • Participate in audits and maintain internal and external compliance
  • Drive continuous improvement and a Lean culture
  • Ensure safety standards and QEHS requirements are consistently met
  • Enable effective communication across departments and with customers
  • Act as a role model for company values, ethics, and safety standards
  • Perform other related duties as assigned

 

What you will bring

  • Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Logistics, Engineering, Production, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in operations management, with responsibility for site‑level operations
  • Strong understanding of operational processes, production KPIs, and performance management
  • Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop teams within a dynamic environment
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including working with data and dashboards
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across all organizational levels
  • A proactive, adaptable, and resilient approach to continuous improvement

 

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

 

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

 

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

 

To Change What's Possible For Everyone

 

#LI-SD2

 

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