Regional Functional Application Manager Commerce & Marketing

Perfetti Van Melle; Noord-Brabant; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Perfetti Van Melle is seeking an experienced functional application manager to harmonize commercial applications across Europe, ideally located in the Netherlands, with openness to Spain or Poland.

You will own the European commercial apps, translate business requirements into scalable solutions, and drive end-to-end delivery from demand to go-live while collaborating with vendors, security, and IT operations.

The role offers hybrid work and a chance to influence a multinational FMCG IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• +7 years of FMCG experience.
• Experience with commercial applications and end-to-end project delivery.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (Azure, GCP or AWS) and data architecture.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into functional solutions.
• Experience integrating business applications.
• SAP knowledge and automations skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Route-to-Market

End-to-end project delivery

Cloud data platforms

Data architecture

Translate business requirements

Integrations experience

SAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Azure / AWS / GCP

Job description

As one of the leading confectionery producers worldwide, every day is a sweet day at Perfetti Van Melle. Come join us in confecting a sweeter future. We are focused on growing our business by building on and developing our talent, to be serious about sweets and to continuously refresh our way of working.

Are you an experienced functional application manager who thrives at the intersection of business and IT, and do you enjoy driving transformation across an international Commerce & Marketing landscape? Join our Regional IT team and play a key role in harmonizing commercial applications across Europe. The position we are hiring for is located in Europe, preferably the Netherlands, but we are also open to locate this position in Spain or Poland.

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.