IT ERP Specialist

Apply now

IT ERP Specialist

Contracted · Alkmaar

What will you do

The organization is currently creating a new IT department to become independent of the European IT organization. We are seeking a skilled, motivated, and detail-oriented IT ERP Specialist to join our dynamic team.

 

As an ERP Specialist you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the successful implementation, optimization, and ongoing support of our ERP systems in alignment with business objectives. This role requires a good understanding of business processes, technical knowledge, and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure a reliable and consistent service is delivered and that the right balance of quality and costs is established.

 

If you are an ERP professional with a track record of successful leadership and a passion for driving business transformation through technology, TAQA is looking for you!

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the day-to-day management of ERP systems, ensuring the successful adoption and the services are reliable and deliver value to stakeholders

  • Oversee the identification of service improvement related activities and creation of plans to realise these improvements

  • A point of escalation, providing guidance and review for key issues and decisions across the domain area

  • Responsible for ensuring successful change management across the domain area

  • Manage stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that views and opinions are sought, and that information is disseminated in a timely manner

  • Support the Business Solutions Lead in the management of suppliers to ensure contractual obligations are being met and appropriate value is being delivered to the organisation

  • Assist the Business Solutions Lead with architecture and operational roadmap planning and strategies with the appropriate internal teams and suppliers

  • Liaise with counterparts across the other subsidiaries and work with TAQA HQ to understand and align on future roadmaps and activities

  • Provides last internal point of escalation for application technical or functional queries, passing these onto external providers where necessary for both issue resolution and change activity

  • Review activity set and prioritise in line with IT processes and procedures, setting business stakeholder expectations as appropriate

  • Assist and lead requirements gathering activities and translates these business requirements into technical IT requirements

  • Assist the Business Solutions Lead with estimating team level timelines and technical efforts for planning, prioritization strategy and roadmap activities

  • Assists with the planning and coordinating of application changes e.g. issue resolution, system upgrades, changes to configuration, database activities and vulnerability management

  • Ensures creation and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for application configurations, processes, deployments and troubleshooting procedures

  • Monitor and manage application lifecycles, regular maintenance, updates and patches are performed to ensure applications remain performant, secure, and up to date aligning with industry and vendor best practice

  • Manage vendor relationships to ensure timely and effective issue resolution

  • Provide support to end-users and business stakeholders, addressing application-related inquiries and issues to ensure they understand how to use solutions effectively and provide coaching to assist them

  • Contribute to ensure that applications are performing optimal in term of usability and performance, ensure that components are tuned adequately

  • Assist with data integration activities and reporting requirements as require

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business processes and requirements

  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment between IT and business goals

  • Assist with data integration activities and reporting requirements.

  • Maintain an accurate Service Catalogue

  • Work with project delivery teams to provide the necessary support to deliver effective changes to solutions

  • Maintain change control procedures following ITIL best practices.

  • To occasionally act as an escalation point for critical ERP systems out of hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

What we search for in you

We’re happy to hear from professionals with a Bachelor education in Computer Science or similar Technology area and 5+ years experience in a similar role. In this role you'll require both Dutch and English language skills.

We'd like to see as many of the following skills on your CV:

  • Strong knowledge of ERP solutions, with broad understanding of Finance, HR, Procurement and Asset Maintenance capabilities

  • Experience of working and co-coordinating activities with multiple third-party suppliers that could be on- or offshore based

  • Strong knowledge of IT service management processes and experience in delivering improvements to these processes (e.g. ITIL)

  • Strong customer focus with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Experience and involvement in requirement analysis, project scoping, developing business cases in the context of business IT

  • Good analytical skills, the ability to solve complex problems, evaluate alternatives and make sound recommendations so that they are easily understood by others

  • Able to lead and manage the co-ordination of minor enhancements

  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team and independently when required

  • Able to autonomously lead and manage the co-ordination of initiatives

  • Excellent planning and organisational skills

  • Experience in systems architecture design and broad understanding of the overall IT ecosystem

  • Experience of working for an Oil & Gas operator

  • Knowledge and experience in Maximo and Oracle eBusiness Suite 

  • Working knowledge of database and application security 

  • Strong understanding of energy industry business processes and systems

  • Experience within an IT organization using ITIL aligned processes 

  • Experience of management of change and embedding cultural and process changes

  • Ability to present information to groups of colleagues and occasionally members of the Leadership Team

Even if you do not see yourself reflected in all the skills required, we still encourage to apply. Research has shown that not everyone applies if they do not feel 100% qualified. However, with our personal development budget we'd be more than happy to help you grow to your potential in this job.

What we offer

You'll be part of the TAQA team filled with energetic and international people that describe their colleagues as helpful, driven, knowledgeable and professional!

This vacancy concerns a contractor role.

Who are we

We focus on the on- and offshore production of oil and gas as well as the operation of two underground gas storage facilities. The latter are strategic assets in the reliable provision of gas in the Netherlands. Their importance will only increase in the coming years as the greater dependence on gas imports will mean domestic storage becomes key to maintaining security of supply.

The energy landscape in the Netherlands is changing, and TAQA is supporting the energy transition in two key ways: we are contributing to continuity of gas supply in the short-term as the transition agenda moves forward. We are also participating in large-scale sustainability developments such as hydrogen and green gas expertise center Investa and Porthos, a CO₂ capture and storage project.

Our success as a company depends on the engagement and passion of our people. Although our organization is large and global, locally we work with short reporting lines in an open and informal culture.

We strive for diversity when attracting talent to our organisation and give your personal development our full attention. In all we do, safety is our first priority. The safety and care of our people, as well as our surroundings and the environment.

Apply now

Did we get you interested?

We'd love to hear from you! Apply now and join our team.

Visit our website

TAQA