Operations & Technical lead

Are you our new Technical & Operations Lead?  

Bright Cape is looking for our next team member to join our leadership team. Enthusiastic about leading an organization from both technical and an operational perspective? Please continue to read! 

 

You 

As a seasoned professional in the data domain, you are ahead of what happens in the market and ensures that bright cape delivers the best technical solutions at our customers, driving their operational excellence.  As the technical voice of the company, you’ll be a trusted advisor, offering critical insights to customers while guaranteeing high-quality project delivery. You thrive in complex project environments, acting as a sparring partner to both the management team and competence leads, helping elevate their structures and strategies. With your strong analytical and entrepreneurial mindset, you’ll help turn ideas into practice.  You’ll manage projects with a high-level view while diving into technical challenges when needed. Your passion for data solutions, project management, and stakeholder collaboration will help you inspire teams and audiences, creating lasting partnerships and delivering tangible value. This is an opportunity to influence the technical direction of the company and make a lasting impact. 

 

You are responsible for: 

  • Defining new product-market combinations. 
  • Being the technical voice of the company. 
  • Guaranteeing feasible proposals and high-quality project delivery. 
  • Supporting multiple projects simultaneously. 
  • Being the critical voice that helps customers find the best data solutions. 
  • Enabling competence leads to structure and elevate their expertise. 
  • Being a sparring partner and trusted advisor for both the management team and customers. 
  • Managing projects and finding broad data solutions that energize you. 
  • Turning vision into practice. 
  • For sharing your vision and insights with our clients. 
  • For supporting complex projects and ensuring their success. 

 

We offer 

  • An open and entrepreneurial environment where team spirit is high and we have fun! 
  • A 3-month buddy program, where a dedicated Bright Caper will guide and support you from day one and introduce you to our way of working; 
  • Coaching & training, in order to provide continuous development and to boost your impact! An allocated budgetfor external training & courses next to Bright Academy, our internal training & development plan;
  • Bright Cape Foundation which we are so proud of! We do better by supporting societal and environmental projects with knowledge (in-kind) and additional donations.; 
  • Lease car; 
  • E-Mobility Plan offering everybody a shuttle pass for public transport (OV), car- and bicycle sharing, parking, etc.; 
  • Competitive salary and performance bonus;
  • Flexible working hours; you plan your own schedule in consultation with your client;
  • In addition to the 25 vacation days, we also offer more than a good pension scheme;
  • Mobile phone allowance and of course a company laptop;
  • Sustainability committee, to make sure we make the right and sustainable choices for a Bright future;
  • Culture committee, for all our fun (online) events and the legendary Ski-trip! (Because we take pleasure in our work very seriously)

 

You have 

  • You’ve got a master’s degree under your belt, ideally in data science, industrial engineering, econometrics, math, or computer science. 
  • You've been in the game for at least 10 years, ideally with a fast-growing, ambitious company in the data world. 
  • You're a visionary who knows how to turn ideas into strategy, and most importantly, into real value for customers. 
  • Building and maintaining partnerships with industry leaders and knowledge partners is second nature to you. 
  • You're the go-to person for handling big-picture project management and solving technical challenges for clients and internal teams. 
  • You’re a strong communicator, fluent in English and Dutch, and can get your message across with ease. 
  • Analytical, critical, and results-driven, you're always looking for ways to make things better. 
  • You’re proactive, organized, and have an entrepreneurial spirit, always pushing yourself and others to keep learning. 
  • You've got solid experience in data, particularly in logistics and manufacturing, ideally in a consulting role. 
  • Sales or pre-sales experience? Check! 
  • Whether it's a big audience or a small group, you know how to inspire and engage when you're on stage. 
  • You’ve thrived in fast-paced, growing environments and know how to create and implement structure amidst rapidly changing environments. 

 

Contact us 

Challenge accepted? Then we would like to meet you! Click on the apply button right away and leave us your motivation and resume. 

Questions? Contact Bart by mail b.geerts@brightcape.nl or by phone: 06 83 34 01 07.  

 

Who we are? 

We are a data consultancy firm located in Eindhoven & Amsterdam with a European reach. We use data science and human-centered design to achieve operational excellence for our customers. Explore, Extract, Embed, and Educate is what we do. Explore our customers’ data maturity, extract value out of our customers’ data, embed (Bright Cape proprietary) solutions into our customer’s processes & governance, and educate them to get familiar with data analytics and our solutions. Our main strengths lie in the manufacturing, logistics & warehousing, finance, and banking industries. 

Bottom line: We help companies increase their revenue, diminish their costs, and increase their process efficiency through Data Analytics, Data engineering & Science, Human-Centered Design, and Process Mining. Besides, we are constantly working on various astonishing Europe-wide innovation projects which have led to several innovative products. 

Bright Cape employees are very diverse but share their excitement for new opportunities and a positive way of thinking. We also greatly value our quarterly team outings, monthly ‘VrijMiBo’s’, Christmas party, heritage days, knowledge shares, and most of all our yearly ski trip. 

 

Our job application process 

After sending out your application, you can expect the next steps: 

  1. Review and if selected, an introductory interview. 
  2. We have a click? Then we will proceed with a knowledge interview. 
  3. Presentation of your favorite/coolest/ most interesting project, of your reference. 
  4. We match? Job offer! 

 

Do you have any questions about this vacancy? Get in touch.

Bart Geerts (recruiter)
b.geerts@brightcape.nl

Challenge accepted? We would like to meet you!

Press 'apply' and share your motivation and resume. We will get in contact with you soon!