Plan to Stock Process Manager

Kramp is Europe’s leading wholesaler of agricultural parts and accessories. Our supply chain is the backbone of our organisation and continuously evolving to meet growing customer demands across Europe.

At Kramp, every improvement in our processes and systems directly impacts delivery reliability, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Plan to Stock Process Manager who wants to make real, visible impact for our Plan to Stock processes across our 11 warehouses in Europe.

In this role, you go beyond analysis. You are a key driver of change, ensuring that improvements are understood, implemented, and truly embedded in daily operations.

The role

In this role, you own the Purchase to Stock (PTS) process, ensuring requirements are translated into effective solutions, delivered on time, and successfully adopted. You act as the key link between business stakeholders, program teams, and leadership. In addition, you drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, support process optimisation projects, maintain documentation and training materials, and analyse performance data to identify improvement opportunities and enhance quality and productivity.

You will also:

• Own the end-to-end Procure-to-Stock (PTS) process, including purchase planning, purchasing execution, supplier collaboration, inbound operations, and alignment across program workstreams.

• Drive process optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives by analysing current operations, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing innovative process solutions.

• Lead project delivery across large and small initiatives by managing scope, timelines, quality, risks, dependencies, and issue escalation.

• Define, prioritise, and govern business requirements while driving decision-making and ensuring alignment between business needs, solution design, and delivery outcomes.

• Ensure solution and design alignment through active governance, gap resolution, risk management, and participation in design review and approval forums.

• Take accountability for data readiness and quality, including defining data requirements, coordinating cleansing and migration activities, and validating data usability.

• Support successful business adoption through stakeholder management, documentation, user acceptance testing (UAT), training, change management, and operational readiness activities.

Your team

As the PTS Process Manager, you are part of the Supply Chain Planning & Execution Organisation (P&E team), working closely with our Category & Buying,Fulfilment operations, and Commercial teams across Europe. The central P&E team consists of 5 category led planning teams across Europe and an Inbound transport& Excellence team. Besides you will have a connection with the different projects and programs that run in this domain; i.e. our ERP program called SPRING.

You will report into the Director Supply Chain Planning & Execution.

Who are you?

You are, or recognise yourself in the following requirements for this role:

• Strong Planning and Purchasing (direct materials) execution experience

• Analytical and systems-oriented mindset. Able to simplify complex matters

• Ability to translate business needs in solution requirements

• Strong cross-functional communication and influence to drive adoption

• Project Management experience in system / solution delivery (design, build, test, deploy)

• Process optimisation and lean / six sigma experience

• Ability to work in Varsseveld (NL) 2-3 days a week

What do we offer?

As an ambitious, fast-growing, and financially strong organization, you can expect several important benefits from us. We prioritize personal development and provide a substantial budget for courses and training. In addition to your monthly salary, we offer various benefits, including:

• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days, based on a full-time contract

• Flexible working and working from home allowance

• Travel allowance

• Great budget for training and courses

• Generous pension scheme

• Laptop and phone

• Profit-sharing bonus

Procedure and contact If this role and its requirements excite you, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply via the application button and submit your CV and motivation letter.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement but believe you’re a strong fit, we encourage you to apply and tell us why.

Do you have a question about this role? Please don’t hesitate to contact Sophie ten Berge, Talent Acquisition Lead.

E: sophie.ten.berge@kramp.com

About usThanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA.

Working at Kramp means:

… you belong here! ​Being part of our open business community​… your work makes a difference!​ Have an impact on what matters

… you will develop and realize​! Learn and realize your potential

More about Kramp: https://group.kramp.com/en/careers/

Varsseveld (NL)