Industrial & Supply Chain Manager

As Industrial & Supply Chain Manager at LEPIVITS, you play a strategic role at the heart of the laboratory's industrial development and supply chain. As a true conductor of operations, you oversee production, purchasing, supply chain, and logistics, while ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and performance of all processes.

Both strategic, analytical, and close to the field, you supervise and support operational teams, drive industrialization projects, and actively contribute to the structuring of a fast-growing Belgian nutraceutical laboratory.

You also play a central role in optimizing systems, costs, and information flows, working in close collaboration with management and the various departments.

Here are your main responsibilities:

Industrial management & operational performance

• Oversee production, planning, and industrial coordination activities, ensuring their reliability and efficiency.

• Analyze, challenge, and validate team proposals regarding schedules, procurement, and resource utilization.

• Arbitrate industrial priorities based on commercial constraints, production capacities, and quality imperatives.

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities to optimize processes, productivity, and costs.

• Maintain a regular presence in the field to support teams and resolve complex operational situations.

Industrialization, equipment & laboratory development

• Drive the development and capacity scaling of our new industrial site in Nivelles.

• Supervise industrialization projects, equipment acquisition, and infrastructure optimization.

• Structure maintenance monitoring and ensure the reliability of industrial equipment.

• Assess investment needs and their technical, economic, and strategic relevance.

• Support the modernization of the industrial tool with a focus on performance and sustainable growth.

Supply Chain, strategic purchasing & logistics

• Oversee the entire supply chain, from demand forecasting to the distribution of finished products.

• Supervise and support team members responsible for purchasing, procurement, and logistics.

• Control and validate purchasing proposals for raw materials, ingredients, and equipment.

• Participate in strategic negotiations and supplier selection, balancing quality, reliability, cost, and sustainability.

• Optimize inventory management to minimize stockouts, overstocks, and financial tie-ups.

• Supervise logistical flows and contribute to improving B2B and B2C service quality.

ERP systems, digitalization & economic management

• Ensure the functional management of our Odoo ERP and support its evolution according to operational needs.

• Structure, secure, and automate processes and information flows between the various departments.

• Develop dashboards to monitor industrial, logistical, economic, and commercial performance.

• Contribute to budget monitoring, industrial costs, and the identification of profitability levers.

• Provide analytical support to the sales teams and management through the monitoring of B2B sales statistics.

Management, quality & cross-functional coordination

• Supervise, support, and empower the production, purchasing, and logistics teams.

• Foster employee autonomy and structure decision-making processes.

• Work closely with the Quality department to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industrial standards.

• Anticipate operational risks and coordinate the actions necessary for business continuity.

• Participate in strategic discussions and actively contribute to LEPIVITS' development projects.

Hard skills

• Higher education degree (Master's) in industrial engineering, supply chain management, pharmaceutical sciences, operations management, or an equivalent field.

• Proven experience of at least 7 years in an industrial environment, including significant experience in management and operations leadership.

• Experience in the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, agri-food industry, or a heavily regulated environment is strongly preferred.

• Proficiency in production management, industrial planning, strategic purchasing, and supply chain.

• Experience in industrialization, process optimization, and capital expenditure project management.

• Strong skills in economic management: industrial costs, budgets, profitability, and resource optimization.

• Good knowledge of quality requirements and standards applicable to regulated industrial environments (HACCP, GMP/BPF, FSSC 22000).

• Excellent command of ERP tools and data analysis; experience with Odoo is a significant asset.

• Professional proficiency in French and English.

Soft skills

• Natural and unifying leadership, with a strong ability to supervise, support, and empower teams.

• Strong results orientation, combined with an excellent understanding of operational realities on the ground.

• Strategic and analytical mindset, capable of turning complex data into concrete decisions.

• Rigour, organizational sense, and an excellent ability to prioritize.

• Ability to challenge proposals, make decisions, and arbitrate in demanding environments.

• Entrepreneurial spirit, autonomy, and a willingness to actively contribute to the development of a growing SME.

• Appetite for structuring, continuous improvement, innovation, and change management.

• Clear communication, collaborative spirit, and ease in interacting with multidisciplinary teams.

• Agility, pragmatism, and the ability to combine long-term vision with operational efficiency.

• Step 1: Initial phone screening with the CEO (15–20 min).

• Step 2: Operational interview with the COO/CEO to delve deeper into industrial, managerial, and strategic skills (1h).

• Step 3: In-depth interview with the COO/CEO or a member of the Board of Directors (1h).

• Step 4: Final meeting and discussion surrounding LEPIVITS' development ambitions.

Let's build the future of nutraceuticals together! 🚀