Change and Strategy Associate (Dutch and English speaking)

Why this role exists

We’re scaling Avineon Tensing into a truly European performance‑driven organization and accelerating our AI strategy. To free up the Managing Director (MD) of Europe’s strategic time and to decrease the strategy‑to‑execution time, we’re hiring a Change and Strategy Associate who acts as a force multiplier.

You will be owning the operating rhythm, turning data into decisions, and driving improvements and transformations that increase scalability and protect profitability.

You will report to the Managing Director of Europe and collaborate with our country directors and (European) support services teams like finance and control, customer experience, employee

experience, and information technology.

Purpose of the role

As a Change and Strategy Associate you will expand the strategic bandwidth of the Managing Director of Europe by accelerating strategy to execution, supporting a robust operating rhythm and project-managing organization-wide improvement and transformation initiatives. Therefore, the emphasis is on alignment with the Managing Director and the subsequent hands-on execution through coordination, facilitation, and implementation, not secretarial tasks.

Authority and decision rights (mandate)

As a Change and Strategy Associate you will get the following mandate:

• Cross‑country mandate, without line responsibility. Leads Europe‑wide initiatives & coordinates work across Belgium/France/Netherland/United Kingdom on behalf of MD.
• Represent the MD’s decisions. Ensures follow‑up of decisions taken in monthly and quarterly country performance reviews. Sets deadlines, chases owners, and closes the loop. Escalating blockers when needed.
• Challenge authority and escalate when necessary. Explicit license to challenge Country Directors and the Directors of Finance, Marketing and IT on commitments, (data) quality and KPI adherence. Escalating to the MD Europe when commitments drift.
• Gatekeeper on readiness. May hold or pause starts on initiatives that don’t meet intake criteria (scope, capacity, risk/controls) and trigger an escalation path.
• Access to data. Can request any metric, report or meeting input needed to run the operating rhythm and convene cross‑functional working sessions to remove blockers.

Strategic themes owned

As a Change and Strategy Associate you take ownership of the following themes:

Business Reporting:

• Support the business reporting cadence at the right level of detail per tier. Further improves the tiered rhythm (weekly / monthly / quarterly) and ensures coverage of operational KPIs and strategic KPIs tied to the OGSM.

Transition Projects:

• Drives cross‑functional transition programs such as our internal AI-transformation. Converting strategy adoption and measurable business outcomes in close support of the CTO.

Process‑improvement projects:

• Leads targeted improvement projects across Europe (e.g., forecast hygiene, process and tools harmonization projects). You perform portfolio-management on all the strategic projects.

Key responsibilities

Business Reporting

• Drive the Executive Management Information as the “single source of truth”. Driving data hygiene and challenging owners when metrics are late, incomplete or off target.
• Help design and run business reporting processes. Ensure the weekly dashboard, monthly report packs and quarterly narratives tell the right story at the right granularity at the right moment in time.
• Support the evidence gathering for monthly and quarterly reporting. Coordinate country directors and finance to collect input and the “story behind the numbers”

Transition projects

• Translate strategy into execution with transition programs that ensure impact and scaled adoption.
• Coordinate stakeholders to remove blockers quickly and keep momentum.

Process-improvement projects

• Standardize the critical business processes across Belgium / France / Netherlands / United Kingdom and ensure adoption.

What you’ll bring

Must‑haves

• A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma.
• Degree in business administration, human resources, organizational psychology, or similar.
• Maximum of 3 years of full-time relevant professional experience.
• Fluent Dutch (native‑level) and professional English.
• Experience presenting to audiences.
• Good communications techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working at a consulting organization.
• Experience leading workshops.

What we offer

• An excellent salary with good mobility options and other secondary benefits
• Position in Utrecht (NL) with occasional travel to Belgium, France and the United Kingdom.
• Permanent contract, with a two-month probationary period
• Possibility to start immediately (in consultation)
• Salary between €4300,- and €6300,- gross based on 40 hours
• 25 days of holiday based on a 40-hour working week
• Mobility scheme, including the choice of a 1st class NS Business Card or mileage allowance
• Excellent pension scheme where we pay 100% of your pension premium
• Training and development to continuously develop yourself
• Internet allowance and a Coolblue budget for setting up your (home) workplace
• Many team activities and attention to wellbeing
• Working in a beautiful office on the outskirts of Utrecht

Application procedure

Apply by submitting your CV and a short motivation letter. The process starts with a telephone screening with our corporate recruiter, Salomé. This is followed by an interview at our office to get to know each other better. A second interview may take place to further explore the mutual fit. When both sides feel confident about the match, we will be happy to make you an offer.