BI-specialist
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Do you have the ability to translate complex data into understandable and usable information, thereby contributing to strategic decision-making and the performance of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)? You can express your creativity in a changing environment with career opportunities, a good salary and an excellent work-life balance.
Our BI team supports and accelerates WUR's business operations through automated, intelligent, reliable and engaging management information, with a focus on HR, Finance and project processes.
We are looking for a BI Specialist who, together with the other colleagues in the BI team, will be responsible for the development and management of WUR's enterprise data warehouse. The data warehouse is used within WUR for management information about the business processes. As a "linking pin" to the business, you are responsible for the further development of the data warehouse and the conversion of data into valuable information. So you can further develop our PowerBI platform.

THE FUNCTION
What are you going to do?

• You unlock data from source systems and translate this data into our data warehouse;
• Delivering management reports;
• You realize the migration from BODS to our new Microsoft environment;
• Building and maintaining reports and dashboards;
• In consultation with HR, Finance and Project Management, you define requirements (with the aim of continuously improving our BI solution);
• By developing our PowerBI platform.

• At least a completed college education;
• You have a good command of Dutch and English, both verbally and in writing;
• Demonstrable knowledge of and experience with the Microsoft BI platform (including SSIS, SSAS Tabular and Power BI);
• Experience with programming in T-SQL and DAX;
• You know the best practices related to PowerBI and Tabular and you are able to apply them within the WUR context.

You are flexible, customer-oriented and recognize the question behind the question. You have strong analytical and communication skills and work well together within WUR's standardized working methods
Our IT department, consisting of 200 employees, offers a modern ICT environment for education and research. We work in multidisciplinary teams on digitization, self-service, security, data management, high performance computing and cloud strategy, which offers plenty of development and career opportunities for specialists.

When it comes to terms of employment , Wageningen University & Research is the place to be. 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;
• the possibility to build up extra compensatory hours by working more, per week;
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partially 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 come with an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a salary of at least € 4,001 to a maximum of € 5,737 (scale 11) for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement Wageningen Research.

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

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research
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 join forces to contribute to the solution of important questions in the field of healthy food and the living environment. With approximately 30 branches, 7,600 employees (6,700 FTEs) and 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 collaboration between different disciplines are at the heart of the unique Wageningen approach. Our employees indicate these points as good reasons to come and work at WUR: read the 6 reasons to come and work at WUR.