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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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe Challenge\n\nAt pladis, we bring Happiness with Every Bite.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe role\n\nYou 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nWorking 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nYour main responsibilities\n\nApplication Ownership & Service Management\n\n Own the day-to-day operation, availability, and performance of assigned business applications.\n\n Manage incidents, service requests, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.\n\n Monitor application health, interfaces, integrations, and operational KPIs.\n\n Maintain support procedures, operational documentation, and knowledge articles.\n\nBusiness Partnership & Vendor Management\n\n Act as the primary liaison between business users, vendors, and IT teams.\n\n Build strong stakeholder relationships and translate business needs into application improvements.\n\n Coordinate external service providers, monitor service levels, and drive vendor performance.\n\n Support user adoption, training, and communication of system changes.\n\nApplication Lifecycle & Change Management\n\n Maintain application roadmaps, documentation, configurations, and support models.\n\n Coordinate upgrades, releases, patches, enhancements, and change requests.\n\n Support application-related projects, testing, deployments, and business readiness activities.\n\n Ensure solutions are delivered with minimal business disruption and aligned to governance standards.\n\nSecurity, Compliance & Continuous Improvement\n\n Support compliance with security, audit, risk, data protection, continuity, and recovery requirements.\n\n Identify opportunities to improve application performance, user experience, and business processes.\n\n Promote knowledge sharing, best practices, and the maturity of application support services.\n\nWhat You Bring\n\nExperience\n\n 3-10 years of experience in Application Management or Business Applications Support.\n\n Experience supporting enterprise applications and working with third-party vendors.\n\n Experience coordinating system enhancements, releases, or application-related projects.\n\nTechnical Knowledge\n\n Strong understanding of application support, lifecycle management, and ITIL processes.\n\n Experience troubleshooting applications, integrations, and data-related issues.\n\n Working knowledge of SQL, data analysis, interfaces, integrations, and enterprise business applications.\n\n Familiarity with ERP environments and application service management practices.\n\nPersonal Attributes\n\n Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.\n\n Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.\n\n Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.\n\n Proactive, customer-focused, collaborative, and committed to continuous improvement.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\n\nIn this role, you will be measured by:\n\n Availability and stability of assigned applications.\n\n Quality and timeliness of incident resolution.\n\n Successful delivery of application enhancements and projects.\n\n User and stakeholder satisfaction.\n\n Quality and completeness of application documentation.\n\n Effective management of vendors and support partners.\n\n Continuous improvement of application services and business processes.\n\nLocation\n\nThis role is based on-site in Zaandam, The Netherlands, and requires regular interaction with local business teams, key users, and IT stakeholders.\n\nWhat we offer\n\nWorking 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.\n\nA 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