Are you an experienced IT Applications teamleader with a passion for customer-centric solutions, digital transformation, and high-performing teams?
We are looking for a Team Manager Applications to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering and evolving the customer application landscape, with Salesforce at its core.
Size of the team: 10FTE's
In this strategic leadership role, you will combine people management, project portfolio ownership, and technology leadership to ensure the successful delivery and continuous improvement of customer-focused digital solutions.
- Lead, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of approximately 10 professionals, including application analysts, developers, project managers, as well as a Salesforce Technical Architect and Release Manager.
- Foster a collaborative, motivated, and high-performing team culture while supporting the professional growth of each team member through effective coaching and development.
- Prioritize team activities and ensure the right balance between workload, resources, and business priorities.
- Own and manage the portfolio of customer-related IT projects, translating the company's Customer Strategy into a clear and actionable project roadmap.
- Work closely with business stakeholders and enterprise architects to define and communicate the future vision of the customer application domain.
- Ensure successful project delivery within agreed scope, budget, quality, and timelines.
- Oversee the maintenance, enhancement, and support of the applications within your domain, ensuring high availability and an excellent user experience.
- Organize and optimize the handling of incidents, change requests, and service requests in line with departmental processes and agreed service levels (SLAs).
- Proactively monitor the health and performance of business-critical applications.
- Provide functional leadership to the Salesforce Technical Architect and Release Manager, ensuring governance, consistency, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of best practices across all Salesforce teams.
- Manage the budgets and supplier contracts required to deliver your team's objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and stay informed about emerging technologies and industry trends.
Required experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Business, or another relevant scientific discipline.
- At least 5 years of experience managing application development teams or leading complex application projects.
- Proven experience delivering customer-facing digital solutions within an enterprise environment.
- Fluent in both Dutch and French. Good professional command of technical English.
- Hands-on experience implementing or managing CRM solutions.
- Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and/or Field Service is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with Enterprise Architect, JIRA, Planview, Omnitracker, and AI-driven solutions is considered a plus.
- You bring strong leadership and coaching skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
Our customer offers
- Fulltime & Permanent employment contract
- A dynamic workplace
- Hybrid working and a healthy work-life balance
- An attractive compensation package including: company car + charging card , Mobile phone , Internet allowance , Representation allowance, Meal vouchers , Health, hospitalization, and pension insurance ,additional fringe benefits