Subject Matter Expert End-to-End Planning

Are you looking for an unique opportunity working together with various stakeholders? Do you want to be part of a pan European IT implementation from the beginning and work directly with the sponsor of the project?

Our European IT team, based in The Netherlands as well as in Germany, is lead by our IT Director Europe and is driving a strategy of enabling and innovating our business. We are an international and entrepreneurial team of over 40 members managing the exponential growth of our company. The IT team works in close collaboration with the local IT teams in the Business Units of Europe. All team members contribute to driving the strategic decisions in the areas of Core Applications, Networking, Infrastructure, Data Management, Security, Portfolio & Projectmanagement.

Due to the expansion of our company, we want to grow the team of Core Applications with our new:

Subject Matter Expert

End-to-End Planning (Kinaxis)

Refresco is phasing out legacy planning solutions in favor of a central, European solution based on Kinaxis® technology. We are looking for a seasoned professional who helps our Business and IT community in the initial implementation and becomes later the IT reference person for the solution.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Support Refresco in the implementation of a new end-to-end planning tool;
• Contribute to the definition and harmonization of business processes related to demand planning, inventory management, supply planning, and MRP;
• Perform fit gap analysis in order to replace legacy solutions by the newly selected European planning tool;
• Design and document interfaces between Kinaxis and other systems (especially SAP S/4HANA);
• Support our user community with testing, training, technical documentation;
• Work closely with business process owners, functional directors, key uses and other IT colleagues to ensure the harmonization of planning processes and tools;
• Customize our Kinaxis application or coordinate our external partners in the customization.

About you:

• You have a University degree in Computer Science, Information System, Business, Supply Chain Management or other related field;
• You have a minimum of 5 years of experience as a professional IT consultant, preferably using Kinaxis technologyKnowledge of the FMCG is preferred;
• Experience or exposure to SAP is preferred;
• You need to be fluent in English and an extra European language is a nice to have
• You have strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Our Core Competencies are

• Vision

• Group Leadership

• Entrepreneurship

• Result Orientation

• Team Work

• Coaching People

• Behavioural Flexibility

About Refresco

Refresco is a very dynamic organization. Slightly over 155 people work at the head office in Rotterdam, versus more than 14,500 employees elsewhere in the world. Confidence in the strength of good, local teams is a hallmark of Refresco's approach to the business. The teams make decisions in close collaboration with her the central team but have a large sense of ownership chosing the best approach for their local market. 

The desire to continue growing is reflected across every layer of the organization. This translates into an extremely enterprising group of people who are constantly setting new things in motion and really want to make an impact. A focus on personal growth and development is a priority at Refresco. Refresco is a dynamic, ever growing and changing business which shows fast and strong organic growth, further fuelled by an active and successful strategy on Mergers & Aqcuisitions.

​​​​​​Refresco Group is the world's largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices for retailers and branded beverage companies. With production in the Benelux, Finland, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Poland, the UK, the US, Canada and Mexico, our global sourcing and local R&D capabilities offer an almost unlimited variety of products, manufactured to customer specifications and requirements. In addition to the efficiency of our bottling processes, we can also provide our customers with total supply chain solutions – from planning and sourcing of raw materials and packaging through to warehousing and transportation. We are able to develop new concepts and bring these to market in an extremely short time frame. Refresco Group is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Find out more!

Recruitment process

Are you interested in this open position, feel free to send your application!

In case of any questions with regards to the position, you may reach out to Yasimin Harput (Corporate Recruiter Group/HQ)

Phone: 010 440 5100
E-mail: [email protected]