Application Specialist

For our IT department in Eindhoven we are looking for an Application Specialist.

Reporting to: IT Director
Salary: € 3.300 – 4.200
Location: IPP, Het Schakelplein 14-16, 5651 GR Eindhoven, Netherlands
Hours per week: 32-40 hours
Requirements: HBO/Bachelor

Purpose of the position

In view of further growth of the IT department within IPP and PRS we’re looking for an Application Specialist. Your role is to support and continue to develop the integration platform Niklas together with the IT team, internal stakeholders in Sales and Operations and external stakeholders such as customers and suppliers. You work in a team of 5 in total, together with several external suppliers.

Our IT-business is based on (pallet movement) information within the main business application (IPP & PRS Pooling System) that is communicated by/to our partners, such as customers, transport firms, depots and retailers. Consequently the maintenance and continued development of integrations is a significant part of the job as well handling document output.

This role also includes identifying potential improvements and together with the IT team and key users in the organisation (based in the Netherlands, UK, France, Spain and Germany) propose a technical design for system enhancements and implementing new developments for applications or areas in which you may develop to a leading role.

Who we are looking for

The ideal candidate is accurate, open minded for and initiating of continuous improvements in his/her field of responsibility, further:

Be able to learn, analyse and solve challenges
Work in a team with a high level of autonomy
A ‘go-and-do-it’ attitude
Is comfortable in providing user support and service to internal and external customers
Preferably experience or knowledge of MySQL, Integrations protocols and data mapping
Strong communication skills, capable of presenting solutions to (international) users and IT Team
Pro-active attitude in identifying issues and proposing solutions
Ambitious to develop skills and competences
Language skills at least native / very strong in Dutch and English. French and/or German is preferred as additional language.

Your Duties and Responsibilities

Work closely together with the platform partner to develop platform enhancements
Testing of platform enhancements
Create and maintain mappings
Issue analysis
Supporting customers in setting up integrations
Create and maintain documentation
Support the internal organization to understand and promote machine-to-machine integrations

Your qualifications

HBO/Bachelor education level
Preferably experience or knowledge of MySQL, Integrations protocols and data mapping
Strong communication skills, capable of presenting solutions to (international) users and IT Team
Ambitious to develop skills and competences
Language skills at least native / very strong in Dutch and English. French and/or German is preferred as additional language.

Why you should apply

You will work within a dynamic company that is open to change. It is a positively challenging environment in which you have to roll up your sleeves and where hard work is rewarded.

We are working on various improvement processes in the (inter)national field. In this way you gain valuable work experience within an international context.

The department where you work is part of the Eindhoven branch with around 80 employees.