IT Business Partner Benelux

Country: Netherlands

Your role

As an IT Business Partner, you play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between technology and business strategy. Your primary responsibility is to align technology solutions with the needs of your assigned business units. You execute this by managing a multi-disciplinary development team, internal- and external stakeholders and vendors.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibility is to collaborate and build strong relationships both inside and outside the IT Team with the purpose of aligning the priorities and deliveries to be performed. Delivery performance is executed by managing a multi-disciplinary, multicultural team of IT project managers, testers, and developers. You also manage multiple service providers. You bring cross-functional teams together to drive meaningful results to prosper and excel in delivery of the solutions necessary.

You establish value management as a strategic organizational capability, ensuring that the business’s products, services, and resources are tailored to meet the specific needs and expectations of the company, within the given frameworks. Of importance of your activities is managing the different incentives and expectations, varying from all internal and external areas impacting the company, in line with the roadmap. Together with the team you commit, design, and deliver these solutions in a way that drives the greatest possible value and impact, to ensure profitability, compliancy, carrying out the strategies and executing excellent resource management.

You demonstrate strong communication, management, and collaboration skills during your daily activities. You’re skilled at conflict negotiation and achieving alignment, meanwhile setting borders, and striving to move forward.

Your focus is on delivering value to stakeholders, identifying root causes of issues and gaps. Anticipate changes in the external environment and drive continuous improvement and evolution across the organization.

You are

• Fluent in Dutch and English and you are located in the Netherlands.

• University degree in a relevant field.

• 5+ years of experience in managing team members with different management styles.

• Multiple years of program management and change management experience.

• Experience in either consumer finance, Automotive finance, and Leasing industry.

• Understanding of how systems work and the technical thinking patterns of your colleagues.

• Strong communication and management skills, technical to functional translation skills and vice versa.

• Strategic thinking, analytic and problem-solving ability

• Ability to build strong relationships and understanding the needs and agendas of others.

• Skilled at achieving alignment, considering different stakeholders and initiatives, and managing expectations.

• Solution-thinking mentality

We are

Santander Consumer Finance SA, Branch Netherlands, part of Santander Group, is one of the largest financial institutions in the world. We have been active in the consumer finance market since 1985. Our core activities are car financing and leasing and consumer credit (personal loans and credit cards). Our head office is in Utrecht and our branch office in Merelbeke (near Ghent) in Belgium. Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues.

Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

What makes Santander different and unique?
We work internally and externally with many different nationalities. We appreciate initiative and humor. We encourage creativity and discuss new ideas with each other. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.

We offer  

• A unique international working environment where you will work with different nationalities both internally and externally;

• A laptop and phone;

• In addition to a competitive salary, you can count on a 13th month, annual performance bonus of up to 10% of your annual salary, 27 days of leave and a collective pension plan with 5% own contribution;

• Travel allowance with a maximum of 30 km one way or reimbursement of the entire journey by using an NS Business Card;

• We encourage development and growth and offer various training opportunities;

• The possibility to work partly from home with a home office allowance (€3,35).

Enthusiastic?

Join the team! This is your chance to use your talent in a dynamic, international organization. Please respond by sending your application to [email protected]. Also, if you want more information about the position, we would like to hear from you.

* Screening is part of the application process. We check, based on the screening procedures in place within Santander, whether new employees are sufficiently reliable to perform work at Santander.

* We have a strong risk culture and expect all our professionals, regardless of their position, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired.