Power Platform Governance Specialist

Vanderlande Industries B.V.; Veghel; Hybrid; EUR 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid workplace (40% WFH)

Health & Wellbeing budget

Pension scheme

On-site health centre

Vanderlande Academy

Discount on health insurance

Barista coffee bar

Job summary

Vanderlande is seeking a Power Platform Governance Specialist to shape governance, adoption, and enablement across the platform. You will bridge Platform Teams and Digital Acceleration, focusing on standards, ownership, and scalability rather than pure development.

You will guide governance processes, drive decisions, and help teams work within guardrails to improve security, compliance, and platform stability. A strong communication and coaching mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Solid Power Platform knowledge and a good technical foundation.
• Several years of experience with Power Platform solutions, governance, or platform initiatives.
• Experience with environments, connectors, DLP policies, capacity, and tenant settings.
• Comfortable working across technical and organizational domains.
• Strong communicator and natural connector.
• Able to facilitate discussions, align stakeholders, and drive decisions.
• Coaching mindset focused on standards, adoption, and enablement.
• Technical affinity is important, but not primarily hands-on development.

Responsibilities

• Help bring structure to governance while supporting teams and stakeholders.
• Design and improve governance framework for the Power Platform.
• Define guardrails, standards, and policies; ensure security and compliance.
• Facilitate governance discussions and drive cross-team decisions.
• Coordinate with Digital Acceleration, Security, and M365 on governance topics.
• Translate decisions into clear guidance for teams and coach on governance.
• Align governance with environment strategy, ALM, and DevOps.
• Support platform administration tasks including environments and tenant settings.
• Govern the IT Automation Framework at platform level, not delivery.

Skills

Power Platform knowledge

Governance experience

Stakeholder engagement

Platform administration

Job description

Power Platform Governance Specialist

Job Description

About the role

As a Power Platform Governance Specialist, you help shape how the Power Platform is governed, adopted, and enabled across Vanderlande. The platform is growing rapidly and is increasingly used for enterprise applications, automation, and self-service enablement. This growth creates opportunities as well as challenges around governance, ownership, standards, and consistency. In this role, you help move from a more ad-hoc way of working to a structured and scalable approach that supports both control and adoption. A solid understanding of the Power Platform is essential. You understand how makers, developers, and business users work with the platform and can translate that experience into practical governance and enablement improvements. You act as the bridge between Platform Teams and Digital Acceleration, ensuring governance supports platform stability, delivery speed, and business enablement. While a solid understanding of the Power Platform is important, the focus is not purely on development. A significant part of the role involves guiding governance processes, defining standards, supporting platform adoption, and facilitating collaboration between teams and stakeholders. This role is an excellent next step for Power Platform professionals who want to expand their impact beyond solution delivery and take more ownership in governance, standards, adoption, and platform enablement. You do not need prior experience in a formal lead role. We value curiosity, initiative, stakeholder engagement, and the ambition to grow into a broader platform governance position.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you help bring structure to governance while supporting teams and stakeholders to work effectively together.

• Support the design and improvement of governance framework for the Power Platform
• Define and maintain guardrails, standards, and policies
• Support self-service adoption while ensuring security and compliance
• Facilitate governance discussions and help drive decision-making across teams
• Act as a key contact for Digital Acceleration, Security, and M365 on governance-related topics
• Translate decisions into clear guidance for teams
• Coach teams on governance practices and their purpose
• Align governance with environment strategy, ALM, and DevOps
• Support Power Platform administration activities, including environment management, tenant settings, capacity monitoring, connector governance, and admin center follow up
• Govern the IT Automation Framework at platform level, not delivery

Key activities

Your work combines hands‑on understanding, improvement, and enablement. Understand operational pain points and governance bottlenecks. Translate issues into scalable improvements and automation. Facilitate governance sessions and support stakeholder alignment. Define and document governance processes and ways of working. Help teams work autonomously within guardrails. Monitor platform changes and translate them into governance improvements. Perform and coordinate recurring administration tasks such as reviewing environments, monitoring capacity and usage, following up on compliance signals, and supporting operational requests.

Your profile

You combine platform understanding with strong stakeholder and coaching skills.

• Solid Power Platform knowledge and a good technical foundation
• Several years of experience working with Power Platform solutions, governance, or platform-related initiatives
• Experience with Power Platform administration topics such as environments, connectors, DLP policies, capacity, tenant settings, or the Power Platform admin center
• Comfortable working across technical and organizational domains
• Strong communicator and natural connector
• Able to facilitate discussions, align stakeholders, and help drive decisions
• Coaching mindset with a focus on standards, adoption, and enablement
• Technical affinity is important, but this is not primarily a hands‑on development role

You may currently work as a Power Platform Developer, Consultant, Functional Specialist, Administrator, or Solution Specialist and are looking for an opportunity to broaden your scope within a growing enterprise platform.

What success looks like in 6–12 months

Success means governance becomes more structured, proactive, and less dependent on individuals. A clear governance structure is in place. Governance boards lead to consistent decisions and follow up. Alignment with Digital Acceleration and M365 has improved. Governance is less reactive and more proactive. Key processes are documented and reusable. First improvements in automation and scalability are visible. Recurring administration activities are clearly defined, consistently followed up, and connected to the governance framework.

What we offer

In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry‑leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you’ll be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 5665 to € 6699 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance).

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On‑site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

For this position it is possible that a background screening will be conducted. This screening can include checks such as verification of identity, qualifications or other relevant records, which may include criminal background or sanctions list checks, in accordance with our internal policies and applicable laws. Any job offer may be extended under the condition that the screening does not give reason to reconsider the hiring decision. Candidates will always be informed about the process and their rights before any screening is initiated.

Every day, millions of people rely on Vanderlande without even knowing it. From baggage checked in at the airport to parcels on their way to someone’s doorstep, our automation solutions help keep the world moving. Vanderlande designs, delivers, and supports automation technology, operational software, and lifecycle services for leading airports and parcel operations worldwide. Across more than 100 countries, our customers rely on us to keep their operations moving reliably, efficiently, and sustainably. Behind every solution are the people who make it happen. At Vanderlande, how we work matters just as much as what we deliver. Our values, Every Day Better, We Care, and Team Play, guide how we collaborate, support each other, and create value for our customers. Here, you can work with colleagues across disciplines and cultures, contribute to work that makes a difference, and build your future in an organisation that invites you to grow. Explore what is possible at Vanderlande and discover how you can make an impact. Aspire. Grow. Achieve. Together.