All round sector Officer Food

In this sector we all work together, are passionate about, and feel the necessity to contribute to food safety in the broadest sense. Our auditors by performing audits against schemes like FSSC/BRC or IFS. Our technical colleagues by reviewing, maintaining, and supporting their colleagues in their work and our all-round sector officers by taking care of our customers and auditors and make sure all operational processes run smoothly.

Key tasks

This is a dynamic and diverse role with a wide range of activities:

• Engage with customers: You ensure that customers have a valid and up to date contract in a timely matter. Taking in to account all commercial and technical requirements.
• Support: You are one of the key points of contact for a selected group of auditors and customers within the sector. 
• Ensure; You ensure optimal utilisation for your auditors and make sure their travel time is as minimal as possible.
• Contribute: You are one of the centers of the sector, coordinating between auditors and customers, you have direct influence on customer satisfaction.
• System Expert: We work with different systems to serve our customers. You work with these systems daily and are our expert.
• Food Specialist: by working in this sector, you gain and maintain your knowledge of Food certification schemes.

Advantages of this role:

It’s a dynamic role with a lot of responsibilities towards your customers and colleagues, so there are a lot of benefits in return. 

1. Continuous learning. This is a role that will make you grow. You will be challenged and because of that, you learn and grow. You will gain knowledge of our Food audits and the portfolio, and you will get the opportunity to also join an audit with one of our auditors.
2. Opportunity to make the difference. You will support organizations in achieving their goals.
3. Work in an organization that delivers on its values:
   • we care. Our team really cares about our customers, we put them at the center of what we do.
   • we dare. We believe that transparency and quality is a benefit for our customers.
   • we share. You will share knowledge and advise our customers with insights and trends.
4. Flexible working. We don’t have fixed working hours (you start between 7:30 and 9:30) but do have direct contact with customers. Your office is in Barendrecht, but as we are adjusting to the new normal, you’ll be welcome to combine office work with home working opportunities. So, you can work alternatively in the office and from home.
5. Growing your career. We love to promote from within DNV and the right people can have a long career. In combination with our annual growth this is an opportunity to grow with us.

Excellent benefits. 

We take good care of our employees with 30 annual leave days (excluding national holidays) and excellent secondary benefits.

• Exciting international environment and potential development within our multinational company.
• Enthusiastic work environment among like-minded people.
• Pleasant team where you can contribute your own ideas and actions.
• A growth path and career in certification services with the possibility to grow within the organization.

About you: 

We are open to hiring candidates from different backgrounds, experience, and skills. However, there are a few traits that any successful candidate will possess.

• Desire to learn. Do you want to learn and contribute to Food Safety and making a real difference to your customers? You must have a hunger to improve and the ability to learn new skills.
• You are organized. This is a fast-paced role with a mix of proactive and reactive activities. The right candidate will be able to juggle multiple priorities and work well under pressure.
• You are structured. This is a varied position with a mix of proactive and reactive activities. The right candidate will be able to juggle multiple priorities and work well under pressure.
• You bring energy into the room. We are looking for lively, hungry, ambitious, energetic team players.
• You will be bright and emotionally intelligent and consider yourself a self-starter:  A degree is not essential, but you must have the ability to push through and learn a portfolio of complicated technical requirements. You must also have a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Independent. You know how to prioritize and execute work independently.
• Dutch and English. A good command of the Dutch and English language is necessary in writing and in speech.

Are you interested and are you a match? Then we would like to see your application with an up-to-date CV with photo and cover letter, telling us why you are "the perfect match".

For more information about this position, please feel free to contact our Teamleader Sector Food