Product Owner: IT/Business Applications Location: Moerdijk NetSuite

Hef Associates; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 49,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

End-of-year bonus

28 vacation days

Group pension plan

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Hef Associates is seeking a Product Owner: IT/Business Applications in the Netherlands to drive an integrated IT landscape. You will align ERP (NetSuite) and related systems with business processes, define sustainable architectures, and oversee data management, security, and maintainability.

You will translate needs into roadmaps, evaluate solutions, and contribute hands-on to analysis, design, and implementation while guiding external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture (TOGAF), ERP systems, integrations, and process and system architecture.
• Experience with application landscapes, architectural principles, design standards, and data management.
• Basic knowledge of security principles for applications and integrations.
• Strong communication and analytical skills and persuasiveness.
• Experience with project and change management.

Responsibilities

• Designing, further developing, and monitoring the content of business support systems.
• Translating business processes and information needs into sustainable system solutions, with a central role for ERP (NetSuite).
• Critically analyze existing processes and actively propose improvements.
• Collecting, analyzing, and prioritizing needs within the user organization and translating these into solutions and roadmap proposals.
• Explaining (new) functionalities and identifying risks, limitations, or undesirable developments in a timely manner.
• Designing and monitoring the system architecture, application landscape, integrations, and data flows.
• Developing and monitoring guidelines and standards in maintainability, data management, data exchange, and (cyber)security.
• Evaluating software solutions and suppliers and providing substantive guidance to external parties.
• Hands-on contributions to analysis, design, configuration, and implementation where necessary.
• Proactively identifying future needs, opportunities for improvement, and risks, and translating these into the IT roadmap.
• Ensuring clear communication and effective collaboration with users and external partners.

Skills

Dutch language

English language

Communication

Analytical skills

Change management

Project management

Organizational sensitivity

Stress resistance

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or related field

Tools

NetSuite

TOGAF

Job description

Product Owner: IT/Business Applications

Job ID: 242

As Product Owner: IT/Business Applications, you are the driving force behind a future-proof IT landscape. In this role as Product Owner: IT/Business Applications, you ensure that the business support systems are optimally configured and seamlessly aligned with our business processes.

You design, monitor, and improve the cohesion between the ERP system (particularly NetSuite), peripheral systems, and integrations. You translate business processes into a sustainable system architecture and establish clear frameworks for maintainability, data management, data exchange, and (cyber) security.

The Product Owner: IT/Business Applicationsensures that our IT solutions remain secure, manageable, and future-proof. This allows you to deliverProduct Owner: IT/Business Applicationsa visible and valuable contribution to the further development and professionalization of the organization.

What will you do?

• Designing, further developing, and monitoring the content of business support systems.
• Translating business processes and information needs into sustainable system solutions, with a central role for ERP (NetSuite).
• Critically analyze existing processes and actively propose improvements.
• Collecting, analyzing, and prioritizing needs within the user organization and translating these into solutions and roadmap proposals.
• Explaining (new) functionalities and identifying risks, limitations, or undesirable developments in a timely manner.
• Designing and monitoring the system architecture, application landscape, integrations, and data flows.
• Developing and monitoring guidelines and standards in the areas of maintainability, data management, data exchange, and (cyber)security.
• Evaluating software solutions and suppliers and providing substantive guidance to external parties.
• Hands-on contributions to analysis, design, configuration, and implementation where necessary.
• Proactively identifying future needs, opportunities for improvement, and risks, and translating these into the IT roadmap.
• Ensuring clear communication and effective collaboration with users and external partners.

What do you bring?

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF), ERP systems, integrations, and process and system architecture.
• Experience with application landscapes, architectural principles, design standards, and data management.
• Basic knowledge of security principles for applications and integrations.
• Good command of the Dutch and English languages.
• Strong communication and analytical skills and persuasiveness.
• Experience with project and change management.
• Organizational sensitivity, flexibility, and stress resistance.
• A high level of safety awareness

What do we offer you?

• A challenging and independent position with plenty of room for initiative.
• A salary in the range of €4,400 to €6,500 (depending on knowledge and experience) with various attractive fringe benefits.
• 28 vacation days and a group pension plan.
• End-of-year bonus upon good performance.
• Training and development opportunities to further deepen your knowledge.
• A pleasant working atmosphere with a close-knit and professional team.
• Every month, our management treats everyone celebrating their birthday to cake.
• An informal working atmosphere with committed colleagues.