Production Planning Manager

The position

As Production Planning Manager, you will be responsible for driving the organization’s continued development and strengthening the core services provided by the Waste and Raw Materials Division across the board.

In addition to establishing overarching frameworks, optimizing service delivery (both internal and external) and strengthening collaboration with other departments also require significant attention. This will be the manager’s primary focus in the coming years.

It is your responsibility to provide all necessary information and to ensure that the supporting processes required for the excellent execution of daily operations are properly established, both in terms of personnel and procedures. You will directly supervise three team leaders in the Planning Department and indirectly supervise more than 50 employees in the department. The Planning Department consists of the following three teams: Operational Support Team, Deployment Team, and Planning and Route Management Team.

You are a member of the Management Team of the Waste and Raw Materials Division. In this role, you actively contribute to the development of the division’s vision and policies, as well as to the implementation and execution of those policies. Overall, you ensure sound and meticulous operational management and proper budget management, and you report on the results to the Director of Waste and Raw Materials.

Here's what you do on an average day

• In general terms, overseeing the ongoing development and transformation efforts for the planning department.
• Formulating the strategic direction of the business unit in an operational plan, based on the strategic frameworks established by senior management.
• Ensuring effective management and securing the necessary resources: money, time, and people.
• Preparing periodic accountability reports on progress, resource allocation, and results.
• Contribute to active, constructive, and effective collaboration with key partners in the city, both within the Area-Based Work and Urban Management cluster and with the Services and Information cluster (including DataLab and Taxation).
• Building a professional network outside of Amsterdam.

This is where you get started

We strive to be a great employer that ensures all our colleagues feel seen and valued. We embrace the differences among our colleagues; these differences lead to better results for both our organization and our city. We aim to build a workforce that reflects Amsterdam’s diverse population. So, whoever you are, you’re more than welcome here!

With over 18,000 colleagues, we ensure that Amsterdam is and remains an attractive capital city—a place where it’s great to live, work, and go to school, with room for entrepreneurs and visitors alike. Working for Amsterdam means contributing to something big: to growth, safety, development, and health—for the city and for its residents. In doing so, we pass Amsterdam on to the future, to the next generations. We want to be a good employer that ensures all colleagues feel seen and valued. We cherish the differences among our colleagues. All these differences lead to better results for our organization and our city.

The Waste & Raw Materials Department is working toward a clean city free of litter. Collecting waste and ensuring it is processed properly are our core tasks. Our mission is to significantly improve our services and operations so that more waste is recycled and reused, the collection process contributes to clean streets, and all of this is achieved at an affordable price.

For the position of Production Planning Manager, you must have:

• An academic, professional, and intellectual level.
• At least 5 years of proven experience at the senior management level in activities that fall within the scope of a planning and control department.
• A strong and unifying leader with a focus on the long-term employability of employees, dedicated to continuous learning, improvement, and development through a coaching leadership style.
• At least 5 years of experience in business operations/finance, integrated management, and change management.

You should have the following skills:

• Analytical skills: Breaks down complex issues and distills them into key details and clearly interrelated aspects, and is able to identify new connections, even when information is incomplete.
• Environmental awareness: Able to interpret administrative/political developments and translate them into implications and proposals for one’s own area of focus or department.
• Collaboration: Is attuned to the group dynamic and is skilled and effective at fostering a relaxed working environment.
• Results-oriented: Sets measurable and achievable personal and departmental goals, along with corresponding long-term outcomes, and knows how to create the conditions necessary to achieve them.
• Decisive: Sticks to the established course and makes decisions in line with the chosen (strategic) course, even in the face of opposition.
• Responsibility: Responds to setbacks by taking responsibility and accepting the consequences.

What we offer you

As a Planning and Scheduling Manager, you will join our team for 36 hours per week and can expect the following terms of employment:

• A gross monthly salary of up to €7,659 (pay grade 14) based on a 36-hour workweek. The exact salary will be determined based on your education, knowledge, and experience.
• A 12-month employment contract, with the possibility of a permanent contract thereafter if you do not currently have an employment contract with the City of Amsterdam, or if you have only a temporary contract.
• If you already have a permanent employment contract with the City of Amsterdam, you will retain it and be transferred.
• For highly experienced candidates with more than 7 years of experience in a similar position, a labor market subsidy may be available.
• Opportunities for professional development and training. Our in-house training center, the Amsterdam School, offers a variety of training programs, professional development tracks, and on-the-job coaching to help you continue to challenge yourself.
• An individual flexible budget (IKB) equal to 17.05% of your salary, which you can use for things like additional pension contributions or extra days off.
• A pension plan with ABP, the pension fund for the public sector and education.
• A travel allowance of €0.10 per kilometer, up to a 45-kilometer one-way commute, for the number of days you work in the office, and/or a work-from-home allowance of €2 net per workday that you work from home.
• A monthly contribution toward health insurance.
• Hybrid work: In this role, you can work partly from home and partly in the office. We provide the necessary equipment to help you set up a safe and healthy workspace at home.
• A cell phone and a work laptop.

Curious about all our employment terms and conditions? View the Amsterdam Municipal Personnel Regulations (PGA) at www.amsterdam.nl/pga/.

Apply for this job

If this job opening interests you, we look forward to receiving your application no later than June 30, 2023 via the application form on our website.

• This job opening is being advertised internally and externally at the same time. Employees of the City of Amsterdam will be given priority in the hiring process.
• We would like to receive your cover letter, in which you explain, in no more than one A4 page, why your work experience and skills are a good fit for this position. Your cover letter will be taken into consideration during the selection process.
• The selection process begins immediately after the application deadline and consists of two rounds of interviews and a preliminary interview. An assessment may also be conducted.
• If your resume meets the job requirements, we would be happy to invite you for an interview.
• The interviews will take place in person at our office in Amsterdam.
• We require a recent Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) from every colleague who joins our team.

We do not appreciate unsolicited solicitation from recruitment agencies, and such actions may result in exclusion from our other recruitment initiatives. We also consider the unsolicited submission of resumes by agencies to our employees to be solicitation. We will not review these resumes.