Project Manager Private label

Position Title:Project Manager Private label

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 43045 

Help Build Strong Private Label Brands Chosen by Consumers Every Day

Are you commercially minded, an excellent project manager, and energized by developing successful products for leading customers? Then this is your opportunity to make a real impact as a Project Manager Private Label.

In this role, you will be responsible for the entire private label product lifecycle from customer briefings and product development to successful market launches and ongoing portfolio growth. You will work closely with customers and internal teams to deliver innovative, high-quality, and profitable solutions.

What Will You Do?

As a Project Manager Private Label, you will be the key link between customers, the market, and the organization. You will translate customer needs into successful product concepts and ensure their efficient and effective implementation.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the private label strategy for key customers and markets.


• Manage and further expand the private label product portfolio.


• Identify growth opportunities within existing and new customers, categories, and product concepts.


• Lead new product development projects and product improvements from concept to launch.


• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Sales, R&D, Quality, Operations, Procurement, and Supply Chain.


• Translate customer briefs into clear commercial and technical specifications.


• Develop business cases, cost calculations, and pricing strategies.


• Monitor margins, performance, and customer satisfaction.


• Drive continuous improvements in quality, cost optimization, and product profitability.


• Manage product changes, specification updates, and product lifecycle activities.

What Do You Bring?

You are an entrepreneurial professional with a strong customer focus while maintaining a sharp eye for profitability, processes, and quality.

In addition, you have:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Food Technology, Commercial Economics, or a related field.


• Several years of experience in private label, product management, category management, or a commercial role.


• Experience with product development and market launches.


• Affinity with manufacturing, supply chain, or FMCG environments.


• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.


• Fluent in Dutch and English


• An analytical, results-driven mindset.

What Do We Offer?

When you join McCain Appetizers Europe, you are joining for the long term. Strong performance can lead to a permanent contract, and in addition, we offer:

• A competitive salary based on a 40-hour workweek, starting from €4.070,- gross per month, depending on your experience and educational background.


• An 8% holiday allowance.


• 25 vacation days plus 15 ADV days (additional paid time-off days) on a full-time basis.


• A year-end bonus of 3%.


• Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometre, up to a maximum of 100 km per day.


• An initial one-year contract, with the prospect of a permanent contract at McCain upon mutual satisfaction.


• Excellent opportunities for personal development, training, and career advancement within the organization.


• After a comprehensive onboarding period, significant flexibility and hybrid working opportunities.

Why This Role?

As a Project Manager Private Label, you will combine commercial responsibility, innovation, and project management in one challenging role. You will have the opportunity to develop products that are actually placed on retail shelves and selected by consumers every day.

Working at the intersection of customer needs, market opportunities, and operational execution, you will have a direct impact on the success of both our customers and our business.

Ready to make a difference? Apply today.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company, we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives creativity, resilience, and success, making our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know  and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. 

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here. 

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Rilland  

Company: McCain Foods Holland B.V.