All the players of the Special Cargo industry in one place

Where you will work: We currently have a hybrid working model, and expect to maintain this in the future. Most team members  combine working at our office in Utrecht with working from home. Our office is close to Utrecht Central Station, and in walking distance of the historic city center.

PHP/Symfony Developer

Validaide supports pharmaceutical logistics service providers in transporting valuable and sensitive pharmaceutical products using our data-sharing Capability Platform and data-driven Lane Assessments and Lane SOPs. The Corona pandemic and the resulting global vaccine distribution demonstrated that digitizing pharma logistics - and thereby saving valuable time to quickly deliver vaccines - has never been more important.

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With Validaide we help to ensure that healthcare products can be delivered to patients around the world in good quality. Pharmaceutical manufacturers (Pfizer, Teva) and logistics service providers (DSV, Agility, Yusen, Hellmann, etc.) use Validaide to assess transportation risk and optimize their transportation and packaging decisions. We enable this by providing a new level of transparency into the services and capabilities across the global logistics industry using our Capability Platform, and by the creation and online collaboration of data-driven Lane Assessments and Lane SOPs.

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We are looking for a full-time PHP developer to join our team who has good English skills, is a keen and eager learner, and has a fair grasp and interest in the PHP programming language and its eco-system. Ideally some background in using the Symfony framework (or comparable) is an added value. What we offer you is on-the-job mentoring by experienced developers, ample time during working hours and training budget to further grow your skills, and hands on work with our tooling and development approach, if you have an interest in that.

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Validaide itself is a PHP Symfony application using Doctrine and Bootstrap for the front-end with a fair amount of JS tidbits (plain, jQuery, Vue). We have a local Mac OS / MAMP development setup, use GitHub repositories, a fully automated build pipeline in Jenkins, use Ansible for deployment, and a variety of other supporting tools. Noteworthy is also our extensive use of Behat to continuously maintain a fully tested application. This is necessary to develop fast in a reliable manner, but also to ensure we meet pharmaceutical guidelines and regulations (GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 1).

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We’re a 12-person company, and our agile development team currently consists of six members, including a dedicated test automation engineer and varying levels of experience. Our mindset towards development is this: we want to optimize our development speed whilst maintaining software quality. We achieve this with the following mantras: “good over perfect”, “don’t introduce a technology unless it is really needed”, “pragmatic DRY”, “be smart: use the right tools that can do the simple work for you instead of DIY (e.g. rector)”, “sometimes you got to write stuff down, dummy (Wiki, e-QMS)”, “integration/smoke tests over unit tests”, “be a {boy/girl/other}scout“, “Bug? Write a test!”, and many more!

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You are :

• A team player, well-versed in English, pragmatic and well-suited for a company of our size

• Looking to contribute to something meaningful and interesting in our industry

• Experienced in PHP; in particular Symfony XP is an added value

• Experienced in front-end technologies (HTML, JS, CSS) and SQL databases

• A quick learner, interested to develop yourself further as a professional

• Living and eligible to work in the Netherlands, willing to grow with us for a longer period of time

What we offer:

• Startup mindset, flat hierarchy, cooperative and supportive mentality

• Diverse, international team (Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Iran, Frisia  )

• Salary: ranging from 3.500,- EUR to 5.500,- EUR, depending on current skillset

• Pension + expenses (home office, travel) + training budget

• We plant trees on your behalf to compensate CO2 using Ecologi: https://ecologi.com/validaide

• Most of us are a ‘digital nomad’ from time to time, e.g. visiting one’s home country for a bit

Sales & Marketing Manager

We are looking for a Sales & Marketing manager who will work closely with the co-founders to define and realize the next growth phase for our company. Your main goals are to create & identify business opportunities, manage the sales process with new clients and help us to grow our Validaide platform. You will also part of the Management Team, together with the CEO, CTO and Head of Delivery. Ideal candidates have prior sales and marketing experience in SaaS and/or pharmaceutical logistics.

Responsibilities include:

• Prospect new business opportunities for our Validaide software platform, particularly with pharmaceutical manufacturers and global freight forwarders;

• Develop, present and close commercial agreements with clients, including the legal terms & conditions for the delivery of our SaaS platform;

• Understand digitization and developments within the pharma logistics ecosystem with manufacturers, logistics providers, packaging providers and software vendors. Use your insights to further define our product and service roadmap and drive our commercial strategy;

• Create and execute on our marketing plan, including online marketing activities and participation in industry conferences.

Qualifications

To be successful and enjoy this position we expect you to have the following qualifications:

• Entrepreneurial mindset and excited about innovation and the opportunities for digitization;

• Ability to easily switch between strategic analysis and hands-on operational activities;

• Business development or sales & marketing experience in software applications based on SaaS business model;

• Drive and ambition to further improve our commercial processes and your responsibilities, for example to become our next Chief Commercial Officer.

• High level of curiosity with strong analytical skills and attention to details;

• Team player, people oriented, with excellent communication skills;

• Bachelor or Masters degree or relevant experience;

• Fluent in English;

• Living in The Netherlands, so it's possible to work with our team at the office in Utrecht approximately two days per week;

• It would be great if you have experience in the pharmaceutical logistics / cold chain industry, but this is not a must-have.

What do we offer?

• Working at a scale-up with the opportunity to gain a lot of responsibilities in a short amount of time and to make a significant contribution to the growth of our company;

• Based on mutual fit and interest, you could grow into the role of Chief Commercial Officer;

• International work environment, working with a global customer base and dynamic, international team of colleagues;

• Flexible working hours;

• Competitive salary package, performance bonus, plus potential stock options or share participation.​​

If you are interested in these positions, please send your application with a motivation letter to jobs@validaide.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

We are currently looking for a PHP/Symfony Developer and  Sales & Marketing Manager