Application manager ERP

Are you an application manager with a passion for ERP systems and associated technology? Looking for a challenging job with growth opportunities, a good salary at an award-winning IT Employer? Then this is your chance!

As an application manager, you are indispensable in the management and further development of the application environment for Business Operations & Finance within Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Together with a team of driven professionals, you are responsible for the software that ensures that the entire financial administration, project administration and procurement processes run smoothly. Think of systems such as Unit4 ERP, Proquro and MobileXpense.

In the coming years, we will be fully committed to standardising and further developing processes and administrations within business operations. As an application manager, you play a key role in this: you solve complex issues, implement changes and think along about new functionalities. In this way, you enable your colleagues in business operations to perform their work optimally! And you support your team with your technical knowledge.

We consciously look for someone who easily takes initiative and approaches something. You are the connecting link so that colleagues can perform their work optimally.

What will you do?

• Management and support: You provide technical support to your team for changes, updates, and incidents. You will support users of business applications such as Unit4 ERP, MyProjects, Proquro, and MobileXpense;
• Integration & APIs: You know all the links on these applications and work together with the integration team on build, test and deploy links;
• Automation: You are a driving force to extensively automate support and management activities;
• Managing suppliers: You assess changes and improvements proposed by suppliers and ensure that they fit well with our architecture and processes;
• Security and architecture: You know the security aspects and ensure that applications comply with the target architecture;

• HBO working and thinking level (if necessary demonstrable via assessment);
• Experience with application management of ERP systems or financial systems at enterprise level;
• Fluent in Dutch;
• Ability to switch between technical and functional issues and communicate clearly with both technical IT colleagues and end users;
• Knowledge of SQL, data management, a good understanding of database management and an understanding of the underlying IT infrastructure;
• Knowledge of security aspects within application management.
• Experience with standardized handling of support tickets, changes and problems (ITIL);

Our IT department was named the best ICT employer in the non-ICT sector in 2024 and, with 200 employees, provides a modern ICT environment for education and research. This means plenty of development and career opportunities for specialists at different levels.

When it comes to terms of employment, Wageningen University & Research is the right place for you. Highlights from our collective labour agreement are, for example:

• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• There is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities on campus at an attractive rate;
• a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme through ABP.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also include an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of a minimum of € 3,234 to a maximum of € 6,008 for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Wageningen Research (scale 10/11). An appointment of 32 hours is negotiable.

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment, we offer excellent training opportunities. With us, you will get a versatile job in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is 'To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life'. Within Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation are joining forces to contribute to the solution of important questions in the field of healthy food and the living environment.
With approximately 30 branches, 7,700 employees (7,000 FTEs), 2,500 PhD and EngD candidates, 13,100 students and more than 150,000 Lifelong Learning participants, Wageningen University & Research is one of the world's leading knowledge institutions in its field. The integrated approach to the issues and the cooperation between different disciplines form the heart of the unique Wageningen approach.

Our employees indicate these points as good reasons to come and work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to come and work at WUR

We are recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. Acquisition is not appreciated, but sharing in your network is.

For more information about this position, please contact Bart Aarts, manager Operations, telephone 06-39088848 or by e-mail bart.aarts@wur.nl

For more information about the procedure, please contact Leoni Gasille, HR Business Partner leoni.gasille@wur.nl

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This vacancy is open until Monday 19 May 2025. We schedule interviews as soon as we receive responses that match our vacancy.

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