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Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
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The Challenge
At pladis, we bring Happiness with Every Bite.
To support our business operations across Europe, we rely on a portfolio of business-critical applications that enable our manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, finance, and support functions. We are looking for an Application Services Coordinator (ASC) who is passionate about business applications, service excellence, continuous improvement, and delivering value to end users. This role offers the opportunity to become a key member of the IT/IS team, acting as the bridge between our business users, application vendors, and technology teams.
The role
You are part of a regional as well as global IT/IS organisation and are responsible for the operational management, support, maintenance, enhancement, and continuous improvement of a portfolio of business applications and services within the pladis Europe application landscape.
As an ASC, you are acting as the subject matter expert for a defined set of key applications and their associated interfaces, integrations, and business processes. The role combines application support, vendor management, business relationship management, project coordination, and change delivery responsibilities.
Working closely with your regional colleagues, business stakeholders, key users, external service providers, and internal IT teams, you ensure that applications are available, fit for purpose, well documented, and continuously improved.
You are responsible for second-line support activities and coordination of third-line support through external vendors when available / required. The role also owns application lifecycle activities including upgrades, enhancements, release management, documentation, and service improvements.
The successful candidate will develop a deep understanding of the business processes supported by the applications and become a trusted advisor to end users and business stakeholders.
Your main responsibilities
Application Ownership & Service Management
Business Partnership & Vendor Management
Application Lifecycle & Change Management
Security, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
What You Bring
Experience
Technical Knowledge
Personal Attributes
What Success Looks Like
In this role, you will be measured by:
Location
This role is based on-site in Zaandam, The Netherlands, and requires regular interaction with local business teams, key users, and IT stakeholders.
What we offer
Working for pladis means challenging jobs, career opportunities and an inspiring environment that allow you to enhance your personal development. pladis recognizes that the on-going success of the company depends on the continued development and engagement of our employees and pursues a fair and competitive remuneration policy, recognizing individual and team competencies and performance.
A few of our benefits:
Who are we?
Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with amazing brands like Verkade en Sultana, is part of pladis since 2016. pladis is one of the world's leading snacking companies. We are the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. A worldwide community with 16.000 colleagues around the world. Each of us bring our experience in happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and purpose. After all these years we believe that biscuits and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake Happiness. Happiness with every bite.
pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.
pladis colleagues care deeply about being the best. About winning, staying the course and never giving up. Whichever part of the world we’re in, whatever our role. Whether we’re baking, working in HR, finance, marketing or many other areas – we win as one pladis team.
And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the code by which we live and work. We call it our ‘Winning Traits & Behaviours’: Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis life that define who we are, how we interact and get things done.
If pladis sounds like the place where you can thrive and help write the next chapter in our growth story, then check out opportunities around the world and follow us for the latest information from our teams.
More information can be found at www.pladisglobal.com
Interested?
To apply for this job, please send your letter of application and resume to pladis Global via our website. Questions? Please reach out to Willem Brandsma, Manager IT-IS, via brandsmw@pladisglobal.com.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength.
We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.