Logistics Administrative Employee / Export Administrative Assistant

Your workday will be varied. You will book transport, air freight, and road shipments. You handle export documents, request phytosanitary inspections, and check import permits. Additionally, you manage customer inquiries, mostly via email but also through phone calls with customers, forwarders, and transport companies.

You will work closely with Sales Support, the shipping department, and our sales team and international agents. There will also be frequent contact with forwarders and transport companies.

You report to the Manager Sales Support & Logistics.

Together with two colleagues, you will form the Logistics department, which acts as a vital link in ensuring all our products are shipped worldwide. As a team, we handle all shipments globally.

At HilverdaFlorist, we strive to lead in the ever-evolving floriculture sector, and your no-nonsense attitude can contribute to this. We are a family business with a strong sense of community and a pleasant work atmosphere in an open, honest, and flat organizational structure.

Additionally, we offer excellent primary and secondary employment conditions, such as:

• An attractive salary, depending on your knowledge and experience
• A position for 32 to 40 hours per week
• Employment conditions in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Greenhouse Horticulture
• 25.5 vacation days (full-time basis)
• Opportunities to follow courses and training programs
• Participation in the Greenhouse Horticulture Pension Fund (BPL)
• Travel allowance
• Flexibility to work partly remotely (in consultation)

HilverdaFlorist specializes in breeding, propagation, and the development of an extensive range of cut flowers, pot plants, and garden plants. With a strong drive and focus on innovation, HilverdaFlorist is the go-to supplier of high-quality young plant material, suitable for any climate and cultivation need. Our assortment includes seeds, cuttings, and tissue culture starting material.

Our mission is simple: Excel together for a flourishing future. To achieve this, we focus on four core values: innovation, ambition, partnership, and reliability.

Our headquarters are located in De Kwakel, the Netherlands, where we work with 144 employees in an international setting. Together with our offices in Colombia, Kenya, India, and Canada, HilverdaFlorist provides the best products and advice to customers worldwide.

You enjoy communicating with people worldwide and are not afraid to pick up the phone. Your day is successful when all shipments have been handled and sent out correctly. You are a team player who enjoys contributing to the team’s success. You are stress-resistant, solution- and service-oriented, and work with precision.

Additionally, you possess:

• MBO/HBO work and thinking level, preferably in a logistics and/or commercial field.
• Experience in a Logistics Administrative Export department.
• Familiarity with E-Cert.
• Experience in creating export documents.
• A good command of Dutch and English, both written and spoken.
• Knowledge of Spanish is a plus.
• Proficiency in Outlook and Excel. Knowledge of Agriware is a bonus.

Interested? Apply now!

Send your CV and cover letter to Marije Buizer, HR Manager, via email, vacature@hilverdaflorist.com.

Do you have questions? Contact Ruud van der Plas via phone or WhatsApp at 06 22 10 34 34, or via email at r.vanderplas@hilverdaflorist.com.

With this vacancy, we aim to recruit our new colleague ourselves. This is not a call for acquisition.

As an assistant breeder, you’ll be supporting breeders and a researcher within our organisation. You’ll be working daily in the greenhouses, utilising your green fingers for practical tasks supporting breeding activities. Your responsibilities include various selection tasks, requiring accurate observation, data collection, and registration.

You’ll assist in pollinating and maintaining both potted and cut carnations and in registering quantitative traits in selection trials. You’ll conduct vase life tests and perform shelf life trials for potted carnations. Additionally, you’ll support in breeding Limonium and Gerbera.

You’ll also aid our researcher in initiating and maintaining research projects, such as disease evaluations and plant phenotyping.

You’ll join a dynamic team of assistant breeders under the guidance of 1 or 2 breeders. Together, you’ll ensure our crops rank among the world’s best. At HilverdaFlorist, we strive to lead in the continuously evolving floriculture sector, and you can contribute by supporting our breeders to elevate our starting materials to the next level.

We’re a family business, with a pleasant working atmosphere in a no-nonsense, open, honest, and flat organization. We value development and encourage it through training and education opportunities.

Additionally, you’ll receive competitive primary and secondary employment conditions, including:

• This position is classified in scale E of the Collective Labor Agreement (CAO) for Greenhouse Horticulture (€2,618.70 – €3,201.60 gross per month). The exact level will depend on your knowledge and experience;
• A full-time role (40 hours per week);
• Employment conditions in line with the CAO for Greenhouse Horticulture;
• 25.5 vacation days on a full-time basis, with the option to purchase an additional 7 days (on a full-time basis);
• A one-year contract, followed by a permanent contract upon satisfactory performance;
• Participation in the pension fund for Greenhouse Horticulture (BPL);
• Travel expense reimbursement.

HilverdaFlorist focuses on breeding, propagation, and development of a wide range of cut flowers, potted plants, and garden plants. This is done with a strong drive and focus on innovation. HilverdaFlorist is the supplier of high-quality young plant material suitable for every climate and cultivation need. Our range consists of starting material in seeds, cuttings, and tissue culture.

Our mission is simple: to excel together for a flourishing future. To achieve this, we focus on four core values: innovation, ambition, partnership, and reliability. HilverdaFlorist’s head office is located in De Kwakel. Here in The Netherlans, we work with 150 people in an international context. Together with our other branches in Colombia, Kenya, India, and Canada, HilverdaFlorist can provide all customers worldwide with the best products and advice.

You’re a hands-on Bachelor’s graduate looking to take your second or third career step. You have ‘green’ fingers and an active and practical working attitude. You enjoy diverse tasks and can smoothly transition between them. While you’re independent in your work, you value working together with your colleagues.

Moreover, you have:

• A completed Bachelor’s degree in a ‘green’ field (biology, agriculture, horticulture).
• Preferably, experience in breeding.
• Preferably, experience in phytopathology or a laboratory setting.

The execution of crop protection is part of this role.

Interested? Apply now!

Send your CV and cover letter to Marije Buizer, HR Manager, via email at vacature@hilverdaflorist.com.

For inquiries, contact Martin Beers, R&D Manager, either by phone or WhatsApp at 06 13 06 87 45 or via email at m.beers@hilverdaflorist.com.

With this vacancy we want to recruit our new colleague ourselves. This is therefore not a call for acquisition.