Business Solutions Manager Commercial

Business Solutions Manager Commercial

For everyone who discovers. For everyone who grows. For everyone who performs and challenges themselves. For your smallest dreams and your biggest ambitions. Learning will take you further. From your first day at school to the next step in your career. Infinitas Learning is there for you and everyone who learns. 

Infinitas Learning is a leading supplier of innovative and appealing educative products and services for education and learning. Infinitas Learning consists of four educative publishers in Europe: Noordhoff in the Netherlands, Liber in Sweden, Plantyn in Belgium and LeYa in Portugal.

At Infinitas Learning people have a passion to transform the way people learn. The goals is to offer flexible, leading solutions that support these new approaches of learning in the 21st century. The Infinitas companies create an impressive range of educative resources that are used in private households, schools within primary, secondary or higher education or within professional institutions. The products include interactive software, online learning, e-books, audiobooks and printed textbooks, of which many are marketleaders in their segment.

The role 

Infinitas Learning is making a transition into full-cloud based ERP ecosystem. In that ecosystem Salesforce plays an essential role. It is used to support the business processes of Marketing, Sales and Customer Services, but also has a pivotal role in the Order to Cash system. We intend to create a complete 360 view on our customers. We work closely with our businesses as we move standard business processes supported by a generic platform.

As Business Solution Manager Commercial you have a leading role in the change, support and further optimisation of this Commercial Ecosystem/Business Systems.

What you will do 

• As Business Solution Manager Commercial you are responsible for:
  

  The Business Solution Manager has a leading role in the implementation of the Commercial Ecosystem/Business Systems, in which the Salesforce Cloud solutions play an important role. You support your team, so they can develop further. Together with the team you support our business, so they are able to support our customers. You will be part of an international working environment that is in transition. You are part of the Technology Operations team of Infinitas Learning Product & Technology and will report into the Director of Technology Operations.

• Management, support and change processes of the Commercial Ecosystem/Business Systems which Infinitas is using to support the business processes. Salesforce has a key role in this landscape, in which we are making use of SalesCloud, MarketingCloud and ServiceCloud, and also connected/additional systems.

• Daily management and support of the Application Specialists Commercial in your team and their personal development. This team consists of 5 internal application specialists and currently 4 contractors.

• You support and coach the process leads and the specialists in the team from an architectural point of view in your domain, making sure the business processes are supported end-to-end. Most important connected teams are the eCommerce team that supports our eCommerce portal and the Finance & Operations team that amongst others work on order to cash processes.

• Further standardisation of the business processes in coordination with business, to create best-in-class processes in domains where this is needed.

• Making sure that the team supports users with correct information and possibilities within the business system landscape.

• Making sure that the team proactively monitors the business system landscape and advises business on the use of functionalities, through which business will be able to perform even better.

• Work closely together with your colleagues in the Business Systems domain (Business Solutions Manager Finance & Operations, Senior Business Analyst and Enterprise Architect).

Who you are 

We understand that each person has a unique set of skills and that finding a candidate with 100% fit would filter out some amazing people, so take this list as a guide and don't hesitate to apply if you don't tick all of them.

• Completed BSc, preferably with strong experience in the Commercial domain, Management Information Systems, with a strong footprint in the Salesforce Cloud solutions.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience, with proven experience as manager of a Business Systems team, within Marketing, Sales and/or Customer Services. Strong experience with Salesforce is an advantage, but your personal profile is of much greater importance to us.

• Strong vision what building a Commercial Ecosystem, based on SaaS Business Systems, means. Strong experience with best-practice processes, and how to support this in a company that works on a European scale.

• Soft skills: we work out of servant leadership to support your team, and also find customer focus, strong communicative and analytical skills and result driven on technology delivery of importance.

• Fluent in English is a must.

Application Process

1. Wouter, our Head of Technology Operations, and Eline, HR, will review your application. Expect a quick response within five working days to discuss the next step. If we decide not to proceed, we will also let you know and explain why.

2. The first call will be with Wouter and Kamil, Business System Manager Finance & Operations, to have a conversation of roughly 45 minutes about Infinitas Learning, the position, and your expectations and personal details. In this call, we are looking to make things as clear as possible, so we don't waste your time if there is anything that will make it not work out, regardless of how amazing you are.

3. If there is a match from both sides we will invite you for a second call with Clifton, CTO and Eline. It is about Infinitas Learning as an organisation, our culture and how you would add to it. It is also an opportunity to talk about expectations from both our and your side and discuss employment terms. If successful, we will contact you to make an offer. If not, we will contact you to let you know why.

Infinitas Learning Values

• We reflect the values of the teachers and learners who use our products.

• Creativity blossoms only when freed from fear.

• Leadership is approachable and supportive in helping you to excel and grow.

• We take strength from our diversity.

• We are all part of, and serve, the Infinitas group of companies.

What Infinitas Learning offers you 

• A job with a real purpose where you can contribute to society.

• Opportunity to work with a diverse team across a range of European countries.

• Attractive and flexible working conditions.

• Flexible working hours depending on team requirements as to when, where, and how you work.

• We can directly employ in a broad range of European countries and are able to provide sponsorship in The Netherlands.

• A competitive salary and benefits (that will vary based on your location due to local expectations or requirements).

Applications are being reviewed on an ongoing basis. Applications via LinkedIn, direct messages, or mail will not be reviewed.