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Commercial employee Customer Service

At Royal Van Zanten, our people and our shared passion make us unique. It is our purpose to pass on the passion that we share for our flowers and plants and for growing our business.

 

Are you a team player and do you enjoy organizing the order flow from receiving the order to shipping the plant material? Then we have the right job for you!

 

Van Zanten Breeding is looking for a 

Commercial employee Customer Service

to strengthen the team Customer Service

 

Van Zanten Breeding is an innovative and internationally operating breeding company in the dynamic world of flowers and plants. With a strong home base in the Netherlands, clients on all continents and production locations in the Netherlands, Uganda, South Africa and Colombia, we are busy every day breeding, propagating and marketing beautiful, inspiring and sustainable varieties. Passion and pleasure in our work comes first!

In this position you will be the contact person for our national and international customers and agents. You work together with your colleagues from sales, planning and production to convert customer requests into offers and sales contracts. You monitor the planning of deliveries with our production sites and expedition and you keep the sales forecasts up to date. Furthermore, you ensure efficient complaint handling. The administrative processing of orders in our ERP package is part of your daily tasks.

You are part of a team of 8 colleagues, which means that you support and replace each other when necessary. Your work location is Rijsenhout, close to Schiphol Airport. This is a full-time position.

 

You are unique

We are looking for a colleague who shares our passion for flowers and plants.
You have excellent communication skills and are also customer and result oriented.
Other competencies are stress resistant, flexible and accurate.

 

We are looking for candidates who

– Have a working and thinking level at MBO4 / HBO level, obtained through education and/or experience;
– a good command of the Dutch and English languages, fluency in German is an advantage;
– Be proficient with MS Office, ERP and CRM systems.

 

Royal Van Zanten has a lot to offer  

We offer you a career in an international field of work and an opportunity to keep developing your work and yourself. It is our strategy to invest in the continuous development of our people, products, processes and the overall quality.

We are ambitious, and we hope that you are too. We offer a competitive salary, great secondary conditions and – most importantly – a passionate team of colleagues that will make every day of working with Royal Van Zanten a pleasure.

Our employee benefits package is generous and includes a holiday pay, travel allowance, a bonus scheme, a work-at-home arrangement and also a pension with BPL, 25½  days of leave per year, a bicycle plan, company physiotherapy, collective health insurance and more.

 

Are you enthusiastic? We would love to hear from you. You can send us your application at sollicitatie@royalvanzanten.com. If you have any questions about the position, please contact  Sandra Poot, Manager Customer Service, at  +31 6 23327732.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

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Working at Royal Van Zanten

“At our lab in Rijsenhout I work with a team of researchers on improving varieties by means of quality controls, new germination techniques and DNA research.”

Wim Rook, Head of Laboratory

“Royal Van Zanten has given me the opportunity to take courses and qualify as a breeder. I’ve been a breeder for five years now and I’m beginning to see the first results of my labour... and I’m very proud of them."

Dave Geerlings, Breeder

“I really enjoy working for Royal Van Zanten because of the many flowers and plants here. After a few years in the Gladiolus department, I have now been working in the Lily breeding department for three years. Even without specialist training, Royal Van Zanten is giving me plenty of opportunities to grow.”

Adriaan Zweemer, Assistant Breeder

"Our products bring smiles to people's faces"

Jamada Bwambale, Team Leader, Mukono Uganda

"We are passionate about happiness, flowers and plants are a ‘feel-good-business’."

Pieter Huys, Manager Finance, Uganda
Wim Rook, Head of Laboratory
Dave Geerlings, Breeder
Adriaan Zweemer, Assistant Breeder
Jamada Bwambale, Team Leader, Mukono Uganda
Pieter Huys, Manager Finance, Uganda