Business Applications Expert

Step into the world of a global leader in cargo securing systems and become the Business Applications Expert of Cordstrap!

Our business partner Cordstrap is the global market leader in Protection Engineering – engineering out the risks associated with the movement of goods in and around industrial settings to protect products, people and places. Cordstrap protection engineers work directly with industrial customers to assess, anticipate, and mitigate risks and to operationalize, measure and continuously improve impact so that these companies can grow safely and sustainably.

Headquartered in Europe (The Netherlands) with a global footprint of sales offices, factories and distribution partners, Cordstrap has 500 employees present in 22 countries and serves customers in over 50 countries worldwide.

The organization combines a unique mixture of global operational reach and multinational professionalism with an entrepreneurial, customer-centric and lean culture which is oriented towards impact. Held by long- term, private shareholders, Cordstrap is focused on long-term profitable growth and value creation for shareholders, employees, and customers.

The IT department is fully centralized in Oostrum and closely collaborates with business teams around the globe both in their day-to-day work and in strategic improvement projects. Business and IT have defined a compelling technology vision and roadmap with exciting initiatives in the areas of digitizing customer interaction & internal processes, data, and analytics, and building robust information security and technology availability.

In this role you work within the Business Process & Applications team. This team digitizes the Cordstrap business processes through modeling business processes, defining the business application strategy, selecting & implementing business applications, and supporting and improving these.
The team consists of 5 people: 3 business analysts, a project manager and a Business Application Expert (this position) and collaborates closely with vendors to deliver the business application landscape. The ERP migration from Infor LX to Epicor Kinetic and the implementation of an Advanced Planning Solution are the largest projects the team is working now on.
You report and work closely together with the Global IT Director.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with your business application colleagues and support them on business application selection & implementation initiatives and low code & integration development projects and take the lead if needed.
• Take a leading role in the definition of the business applications vision, architecture, and roadmap in close collaboration with the Global IT Director, DnA Manager and business representatives.
• Lead business application solution analysis and design sessions in collaboration with business and IT if needed.
• Promote and apply application architecture and design best practices and coach your business application colleagues on these.
• Develop a very good understanding of the needs, challenges and objectives of the Cordstrap business.
• Develop a deep understanding of the Cordstrap business application landscape and ensure it is documented.
• Contribute to a reliable business applications landscape that meets the needs and objectives of the Cordstrap business.
• Keep up to date with business application technology developments and contribute to IT innovation.

You have/are:

• A relevant master's degree or bachelor's degree
• You have at least 5 years’ work experience in business applications roles in a mid-sized or large international company with a business-critical application landscape.
• You have acquired deep knowledge and vast experience of
  1. Business process and applications for sales, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, and finance.
  2. Business application architecture and design best practices.
  3. Business application integration.
  4. Software development.
  5. Business application selection & implementation.
  6. Relevant business application technology developments.
• You are comfortable in taking the lead in analysis and design sessions with business and IT participants to analyze problems and to identify and detail solutions.
• You enjoy coaching business application colleagues in applying architecture and design best practices in their daily work.
• You know what aspects of the business application landscape need to be documented and how to get this accomplished in collaboration with your colleagues.
• You take responsibility for business application architecture and supporting your business application colleagues in any task to help accomplish the joined team goals.
• You have an affinity with the high pace of commercial manufacturing and distribution businesses.
• As a person you are collaborative, a strong personality, energetic and an excellent communicator

Cordstrap offers:

• A salary between € 90.000,- and € 105.000,-;
• Bonus potential;
• 28 holidays;
• Pension arrangement.

Cordstrap and the IT department provide great opportunities for professional development and learning through exciting digitization projects, coaching on the job by highly experienced leaders, training and courses, and the Cordstrap Leadership Academy.

Diana Gransbergen
M: +31 6 39277501
E: Diana.Gransbergen@sterksen.com