Working with and for a smile

Jumbo's ambition is to be the most customer-oriented company. We want to surprise customers and exceed expectations, so that customers enjoy shopping with us. With over 700 stores in the Netherlands and Belgium, the option to have groceries delivered to your home via jumbo.com, our own distribution centers and colleagues in the office, we work together with all colleagues every day on that ambition. Doing business together to win over the customer, that is what we at Jumbo strive for.

As an APS Consultant you will make an important contribution to jumbo by working with the Advanced Planning System (APS) that plans the truck journeys to supply distribution centers, stores and online hubs. In this way, you contribute to keeping groceries affordable and reducing the impact on the environment. The goal is to build a reliable, stable, robust and user-friendly planning application landscape which is both cost-effective and first-class, and which meets/exceeds the expectations of the client and our IT users.

Let’s get to work! This is what you will do

As an APS Consultant you will you will translate process changes requested by the business into an IT solution which you describe in functional design. When the design is approved you and your team will build and test this functionality and you demonstrate what you build to the system users. When approved by the users it will become part of the system.
You will also sit down with users to see how they work with the system, so that we can improve the system together.

For the first year we have the following goal in mind

You will start learning about the Jumbo planning process and understand the APS system, its usage and its users by working together with an experienced APS Business Consultants. You will work on assignments that match your competence. Starting small assignments and it will become more complex as you grow in knowledge and experience. You bring your enthusiasm and drive to the team. And in return you end up in an enthusiastic team that combines cooperation and results orientation with enjoyment of work.

Your workday as an APS Consultant

We plan our work in 2-week sprints

• 09:00 – 09:15 Daily stand-up. We evaluate work in progress and mitigate if necessary.
• 09:15 – rest of the day : Specifying and elaborating requests from transport planners, test new functionality and demo new functionality.

Once every two weeks:

• Sprint closure for the committed sprint work.
• Retrospective meeting to evaluate what went well and what did not, and create a plan for improving the way the team does work.
• Sprint planning for next sprint.

A lot is happening at Jumbo: no day is the same, we switch quickly and look at how we can do better every day for our customers and colleagues. We are looking for go-getters, people with good ideas and the courage to work on them together. Where we have an eye for each other: our customers, colleagues and the world around us, and we want to do just that little bit better every day. All our (future) colleagues bring a healthy dose of Jumbo DNA with them, so do you! Additonaly you also have:

Key Soft Skills

• Analytical mind-set
• 5+ years of Retail experience
• Willing to perform activities outside job description (for example development and test activities)
• Curious and determined by nature
• Natural enthusiasm and open-minded to learn
• Team player but can also work independently
• Willing to learn and improve skills and knowledge
• Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch, both written and spoken forms

Key Hard Skills

• Experience with transport and production planning
• Experience with process analysis and improvement
• Basic skills in object oriented programming
• Affinity with Mathematics or Econometrics

Nice to have

• Experience with working in a Scrum team

Together we are Jumbo: this is where you will work

As an APS Consultant you will be part of our scrum teams The team has all the skills to implement a user story from A to Z. Your team consists of developers, business analysts, tester, scrum master, product owner. Together you will work in sprints of two weeks.

Working for ‘IT Kanaal & Support within the Jumbo Tech Campus means being part of the Jumbo family. This means that we enjoy a warm and friendly working environment. Respect, friendliness, good communication and togetherness are good words to describe our teams.

At Jumbo, you’ll find a work environment with warmth, enjoyment, and attention for each other. Where you have plenty of room to contribute to our ambition of becoming the most customer-oriented company. Just as you’re there for our customers, we’re there for you. Additionally, you’ll receive:

• A gross salary between €4.200 - €5.500 per month (based on 40 hours).
• An annual bonus of max 5% of your annual salary, based on organizational goals.
• 30 days of paid holiday (with the opportunity to buy or sell days of paid holiday) and 8% holiday allowance. You build up a pension through participation in the Pension Fund for the Food Industry.
• An allowance for your travel expenses (€ 0.21 cents per kilometer with a maximum of 35 kilometers one way). We like to work together in the office, but you can also work partly from home.
• Room for entrepreneurship, growth and development. Not only in your job but also through our Jumbo Academy, online training through GoodHabitz and with a training budget.
• Daily fresh lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee and fresh fruit. You can sport daily at our own Jumbo Gym for a small fee.
• Colleague discounts such as 10% off your groceries (up to €325 per year), participation in our collective health insurance or discounts through Benefits at Work.

Are you excited to get started at Jumbo?

Then we welcome you to apply directly. Who knows, we might get to know each other during a first interview soon.