Senior Manager Performance & Transformation
Your next chapter with VIDA
Are you a senior performance and transformation leader with a strong track record in translating strategy into sustained operational impact? Do you thrive in environments where execution, ownership, and results matter? At VIDA, we are looking for a Senior Manager Performance & Transformation to lead our Impact Acceleration Office (IAO).
In this role, you will play a central leadership role within the organization. You will further build and embed the Impact Acceleration Office as a core capability at VIDA, acting as the bridge between the Leadership Team and our operational sites across the Netherlands and the UK. You will drive performance, strengthen execution discipline, and ensure that strategic priorities translate into measurable and lasting impact.
Why choose VIDA?
At VIDA, we are accelerating the energy transition through sustainable bioenergy solutions. We transform biomass into renewable energy, supplying communities and industries across the Netherlands, the UK, and, increasingly, other European markets.
VIDA is a fast-growing scale-up where impact is tangible and visible. You will help shape how the organization works as it scales, contribute directly to operational and financial performance, and play a key role in building a performance-driven culture in a purpose-led company.
Role Overview
As Senior Performance & Transformation Manager, you will lead the Impact Acceleration Office and own further development, scaling, and embedding of performance and transformation capabilities across VIDA.
You will work closely with the CEO, CFO, and Leadership Team to translate strategic priorities into clear initiatives, robust governance, and disciplined execution. At the same time, you will be deeply connected with site leadership and functional teams, ensuring alignment between central priorities and local execution.
This is a leadership role with full ownership over how performance management, transformation initiatives, and execution rhythms are designed, run, and continuously improved at VIDA.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and scale the Impact Acceleration Office
- Further build, professionalize, and embed the Impact Acceleration Office as a central function
- Define and standardize ways of working, governance, and execution rhythms (e.g. S&OP, KPI cycles, performance reviews)
- Strengthen performance management capabilities across sites and functions
Drive performance and transformation
- Lead cross-site and cross-functional performance improvement and transformation initiatives
- Translate Leadership Team priorities into concrete initiatives with clear accountability, milestones, and impact
- Identify performance gaps and initiate targeted improvement actions across safety, operations, margins, and cost control
- Actively remove roadblocks and escalate where required to ensure progress
Own governance and execution rhythm
- Establish and run a disciplined performance management cadence (KPIs, reviews, follow-ups)
- Ensure transparency, fact-based decision-making, and focus on impact
- Prepare high-quality decision materials, business cases, and scenario analyses for the Leadership Team
Stakeholder leadership
- Act as a trusted partner to CEO, CFO, Leadership Team, site directors, and functional heads
- Align central strategy with on-site execution realities
- Coach and develop the Transformation Analyst and contribute to building a high-performing IAO team
Profile
- Master’s degree in business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field
- 8–12 years of relevant professional experience
- Background in strategy or transformation consulting combined with relevant industry or operational exposure
- Proven experience leading to performance improvement or transformation initiatives in complex, multi-site environments
- Strong understanding of performance management, governance, and execution frameworks
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Comfortable operating at C-level while staying close to execution on the ground
Mindset
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Execution- and impact-driven; focused on getting things done
- Pragmatic, structured, and resilient in a dynamic scale-up environment
- Leads through action and example
- Energetic, positive, and able to mobilize others
Apply now!
Join VIDA and take the next step in your career. If you’re passionate about making a difference and ready to grow with a company committed to sustainability, we’d love to hear from you.
email: imh@vtti.com – Shiva Ahmadi, Sr. Talent Acquisition VIDA and VTTI
Hiring process
We invite you to take a look through our website to get an insight into our business, our values, our ambitions, and our people.
When you are ready to apply, the first step is simple: submit your application through our website or via LinkedIn. You will need to upload your resume and any other relevant documents specified in the job description, such as a portfolio. We also encourage you to write and upload a short cover letter explaining why you are a great fit for the role.
Do you already know someone at VTTI? If so, they may be open to sharing their experiences, answering any questions, and even introducing you as a referral candidate.
We embrace diversity, inclusivity and non-discrimination in our hiring practices, and are open to people of all backgrounds. We recognize that different applicants may have different needs, so feel free to share any support needs with our recruiter, for example due to any type of disability. It is in our interest to help you show us the best, most comfortable version of who you are.
Once we have received your application, our recruitment team will review it to see if your skills and experience align with the role.
If we think you could be a good fit, we may schedule a quick phone or video call to get to know you a little better. This is a chance for us to learn more about your background and for you to ask any questions you might have about the role or our company. We will also discuss your experience with the hiring manager or panel.
If we think you might be a better fit for a different position within our organization, now or in the future, we will contact you and discuss the opportunity and/or next steps.
If things go well during the initial screening, you will move on to the first interview.
We want this to be a two-way conversation—because this is also your opportunity to find out more about whether you would like to work with us and make VTTI the next step in your career. The process and the number of interviews depending on the seniority level and the location of the role. All candidates for the same position will follow the same process.
Depending on the role we might ask you to prepare a technical task or business case or ask you to complete a short personality assessment, a skills assessment, or a full day in-person assessment. The purpose of this is to give us a better sense of how you approach problem-solving, your leadership style and/or how you would apply your skills to the role.
You are also welcome to ask for an extra interview or an orientation day at the terminal or office, if you need further conversations or in-person experience to make your decision.
We value your time and effort and will do our utmost to provide feedback as quickly as possible.
Whether it’s an offer or constructive feedback, we will try to communicate clearly with you about the next steps.
If you are offered the role, be available to answer any questions you might have. We know that changing jobs is something you don’t do every day and is a major life event, so we’ll try to support you as well as we can.
Good luck, and we can’t wait to meet you!
