Applications Manager

BE - Ardooie HQ
IT
Permanent contract

Ardo supplies its continuously growing markets around the world with high quality frozen vegetables, herbs, and fruit with 4000 employees and 17 production sites in 8 countries.

Your Scope

You make strategic and tactical choices; buy or build, insourcing, outsourcing. You help determine the vendor selection, purchase of ICT goods and external services.
Your responsibilities include an important focus on compliance and (data)security.
As an experienced people manager, you are also responsible for coaching the team. You set up a powerful department that is customer-oriented and that starts from an ICT business partnering attitude.
In close collaboration with the Group IT Director, you help to build a corporate and centralized IT structure and help to guide the organization through these changes.
You build and maintain strong relationships and communication with all key stakeholders, both internally and externally on a global scale.
You align on regular basis with your peers, the members of the IT management team, to ensure overall integrated solutions.
You manage the ICT budget for Applications.
You implement best practices in terms of work processes and methodology. You manage ICT delivery and support throughout the entire organization. You drive optimizations as well as innovations in the daily business.

**Profile**:
You obtained a relevant higher degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent through experience.
You have experience with managing project
- and team budgets.
You have experience as a people manager and know how to motivate, guide and manage your team.
You have experience with change management and know how to guide a team/organization through transformations.
As a leader you are able to act both strategically and on an operational level.
You can realistically estimate what is urgent and/or important and you are decisive. You communicate in a smooth and open manner.
You have a good conceptual knowledge of important IT market trends, technologies, solutions and can critically evaluate or pro-actively propose new opportunities.
You have a high degree of energy and motivation and can translate this in a positive way to the team and organization.

**Language skills**: English is a must; Dutch and French are an asset.
You are willing to travel for short trips within Europe.
We offer

A dynamic family business and an international company. At Ardo you will find the best of both worlds. Your knowledge, skills and dedication are regarded as the company’s driving force. The freedom to actively participate in shaping the business and the opportunity to develop professionally. We offer an attractive remuneration and extra-legal package. We care for our people and create family-friendly surroundings by offering you the flexibility to work 2 days/week from home.