Job Description

BAS Global - Application development, maintenance and management 

• Provide support for applications, implement application (construct and configure), deploy changes and do troubleshooting 

• Innovate and proactively work to develop and support business applications to ensure it best meets business needs. 

• Translate business need into technical specification and work with supplier to translate business requirements into a viable software solution 

• Interacts and engages frequently with business to ensure that the solution meets the agreed business requirements and maintain active contact with business to ensure that the system in place is working appropriately from a functionality perspective 

• Apply knowledge of systems to determine feasibility of projects 

• Expand the solution to other business systems/business need. 

• Configure and guide development of a variety of business applications 

• Participate or lead process initiatives 

• Provide guidance, develop and deliver training  

• Build long-term relationships with business partners and collaborate with geographically distributed teams 

• Support the Application Engineers in translating the functional design into a technical design 

• Define and monitor targets for the Application Engineers, Support and coach the Application Engineers 

BAS Global - Application development, maintenance and management 

• Collects business requirements at key users, local owners and business process owners, if applicable in cooperation with Application Engineers for translating the functional design into technical design 

• Share best practices over Opco’s 

• Describe and organize setup of applications 

BAS Local - Management advice/reports 

• Reports Service Level Management data/KPIs regarding assigned application(s)  

BAS Global - Governance of projects in a functional area 

• Investigate all requirements in a functional area  and translate the requirements into process and/or application projects 

• Support the Process Information Manager/Manager Enterprise Solution Architecture and/or Process Owner in approving and prioritizing the projects  

• Function as Local Unite Owner and is BU responsible for changes due to Nutreco Unite Projects and communication to key users involving the assigned process applications in the BU/Opco. 

• Defines change requests in close operation with Key Users and Functional Owner and communicates/coordinates requests with Competence Center.   

Program management /Change management 

• Define project charters or change documents for all changes and projects 

• Staff projects and manage / steer project management  

• Monitor projects on planning, budget and deliverables and report this  

• Execute the formal closing of projects, incl. evaluation against planning, budget and deliverables 

• Analyzes changes, defines change plans per change, implement changes and execute the formal closing of changes 

Application support 

• Define and manage SLA’s with suppliers for local applications, organize support structures for global applications in close cooperation with the Global IT Services organization 

• Organize key-user structure 

• Perform release and capacity management