Regional Functional Application Manager Commerce & Marketing

Perfetti Van Melle; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Dynamic international company with led

Family-oriented culture

Hybrid working

Job summary

Perfetti Van Melle seeks a Regional Functional Application Manager for Commerce & Marketing in Europe. You will own commercial apps, drive harmonization, and translate business needs into scalable solutions across regions.

The role requires 7+ years in FMCG, experience with end-to-end project delivery, and familiarity with Azure/AWS/GCP and data architecture. Hybrid work model offered with global brand exposure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher required.
• +7 years of FMCG experience with Route-to-Market.
• Proven experience with commercial apps and end-to-end delivery.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and data architecture.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into practical functional solutions.
• Experience supporting or designing integrations between business apps.
• SAP knowledge and automation skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Be the functional owner of commercial applications across the European region.
• Drive harmonized European application landscape within Commerce & Marketing.
• Gather, analyse and translate business requirements into scalable functional solutions.
• Define project scope, support vendor selection, and contribute to planning.
• Lead implementations from demand through go-live and handover to IT ops.
• Manage relationships with users, managers, project teams, solution architects, security, vendors and IT ops.
• Drive governance of commercial applications and integrations from a business perspective.

Skills

FMCG experience

Route-to-Market

End-to-end project delivery

Translate business challenges

Integrations experience

SAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

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Regional Functional Application Manager Commerce & Marketing

Date: Oct 17, 2026

ABOUT THE ROLE

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Be the functional owner of commercial applications across the European region.
• Drive the transformation towards a harmonized European application landscape within Commerce & Marketing.
• Gather, analyse and translate business requirements into scalable functional solutions.
• Define project scope, support vendor selection processes, and contribute to project planning activities.
• Lead and coordinate implementations from demand through go-live and handover to IT operations.
• Manage relationships with key users, managers, project teams, solution architects, security, vendors and IT operations.
• Drive functional governance of commercial applications and integrations from a business perspective.

OUR PERFECT CANDIDATE BRINGS

• A bachelor's degree or higher.
• +7 years of experience within an FMCG environment and strong understanding of Route-to-Market processes.
• Proven experience with commercial applications and end-to-end project delivery from requirements to go-live.
• Solid understanding of cloud data platforms (Azure, GCP or AWS) and data architecture principles
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into practical functional solutions.
• Experience supporting or designing integrations between business applications.
• SAP knowledge and automations skills are a plus.

WE OFFER

• Bonus opportunity.
• Work at a dynamic international company with leading global brands.
• A family-oriented culture where we care about our people.
• Hybrid working: partly in the office and from home.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Perfetti Van Melle is a privately owned company that manufactures and distributes candy and chewing gum in over 150 countries worldwide. Today, Perfetti Van Melle is ranked as the third largest sugar confectionery/chewing gum company in the world, second in Europe, with strong brands like Mentos, Chupa Chups, Fruittella, Frisk and Smint. The ability to develop products, varieties and flavours that meet the different demands and opportunities of markets is one Perfetti Van Melle's keys to success.