How do you make our customers happy?
Every order bol delivers starts its journey inside a fulfillment centre. As the Building Lead you’ll help take bol’s newest warehouse from the initial design stage through construction and handover. An inspirational responsibility, because you own the building workstream end-to-end: guiding the VO TO DO design process, managing the tendering and contracting of construction partners, and ensuring the warehouse is delivered on time, on spec, and ready to process millions of orders. A rare opportunity to shape a building from the very first sketch!
The biggest challenge
A fulfillment center is a finely integrated ecosystem where the structural design, building services, and mechanization requirements must all align. How do you design a building that accommodates an automation system we’re still specifying? How do you keep the construction timeline moving when the operational requirements are still being refined? And how do you achieve continuous improvement and knowledge sharing in a fast-paced and demanding environment? You’ll resolve tensions between design ambitions and buildability, between speed-to-site and quality standards, and between competing stakeholder priorities.
What you’ll do as Senior Project Manager & Building Lead
You’ll join the BFCM project team within Infrastructure Development department. This team will deliver a new fulfillment center that will set the benchmark for bol’s logistics network. As the manager of the building stream, you’re responsible for delivering a physical facility that’s ready for mechanization and operations. You’ll steer the design process from preliminary sketches through detailed engineering, manage construction tendering and contracting, and oversee the actual build. You’ll coordinate closely with colleague Leads within the project to ensure your building design and the mechanization layout develop in unison. Throughout, you’ll manage external architects, engineers, and contractors while onboarding and aligning internal stakeholders across operations, safety, and facilities. This entails:
Guiding the design process through the VO, TO, and DO phases with architects and engineers
Developing and managing the contractor tender process, evaluating bids, and negotiating contracts
Overseeing construction: schedule, quality, safety, and environmental compliance are in scope
Accommodating mechanization and operational requirements
Managing scope, risk, and change control within bol’s stage-gate governance framework
Aligning, creating buy-in from and preparing decision making for stakeholders across operations, facilities, safety, and executive leadership
Creating and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
Guide and continually develop a team of building experts and project managers
Why you can make a difference
You have 10+ years of leading projects experience, including construction project management for industrial or logistics facilities. You understand the full lifecycle, from design through construction and handover. You have a track record of navigating complex stakeholder environments, and are the type of manager you’d gladly follow yourself; understanding, clear, and inspiring. Affinity with the Dutch construction industry is essential; experience with building warehouses is the cherry on top.
Your ability to connect design intent with operational reality sets you apart. You ask the right questions early – about flexibility, future-proofing, and how a building’s design optimally serves the intended logistics processes. You are equally adept at translating those insights into requirements that construction partners can act on. You communicate with ease across a wide range of disciplines and organizational levels, build rapport without forcing issues, and remain composed and professional when priorities overlap. Fluency in Dutch is required; English proficiency is also required. The same goes for an academic background in a technical or construction-related discipline.
3 reasons why this is (not) for you
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Renovation specialist
You prefer optimizing existing buildings to starting from a blank canvas
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Iron ruler
You aren’t great at coaching and prefer decrees to feedback
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Discontinued improver
Inspiring team development and personal growth should not be a constant part of your job
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Design-to-delivery connector
You excel in aligning an architect’s vision with operational realities
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Collaborative champion
Managing architects, engineers, contractors, and internal stakeholders simultaneously? That’s when you’re at your best
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Once-in-a-career builder
A greenfield fulfillment center with modular design and the latest technologies? You’re on board!
Where you’ll work
You’ll join the Infrastructure Development team within bol’s logistics organization. This team delivers projects that shape bol’s fulfillment network . The environment is diverse, welcoming, collaborative, and hands-on: we bring different perspectives together, enthusiastically share our knowledge, and hold each other accountable. With 2,900 colleagues, 47,000 partners, and 13.7 million customers, the projects you deliver directly support the logistics backbone that makes it all work. Sound appealing? This is your chance to design and build infrastructure that sets a new and higher standard.
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Relocation
Bol wants to ensure that you make the best possible transition. We offer relocation assistance to the Netherlands from the moment you have the job.
Flexible working
We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.
On and off
At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.
Interview process
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Your application
We’ll review your application with care. We aim to get in touch with you as soon as possible.
First contact
We’ll contact you and walk you through the process and take the first step to set up an interview. And since we’re already talking: feel free to ask any questions you may have.
First date
During the first interview we’ll get to know each other. We want to find out more about you, your work experience and skills.
Your next interview
Before this interview will take place we will ask you to take an online assessment. For some specific jobs we ask you for extra input, for example a business case or a technical assessment. We’ll also discuss the position and the team in depth.
Is this love?
Two interviews are usually enough to see if it’s a match. And if you agree… well, it’s the beautiful beginning of your career at bol.
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