IT Business Partner Benelux | Santander Consumer Finance SA
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:
1. Collaborate and build strong relationships both inside and outside the IT Team to align priorities and deliveries.
2. Manage a multi-disciplinary, multicultural team of IT project managers, testers, and developers.
3. Manage multiple service providers.
4. Establish value management as a strategic organizational capability, ensuring that the business’s products, services, and resources meet the specific needs and expectations of the company.
5. Manage different incentives and expectations across all internal and external areas impacting the company, in line with the roadmap.
6. Commit, design, and deliver solutions that drive the greatest possible value and impact.
7. Demonstrate strong communication, management, and collaboration skills.
8. Identify root causes of issues and gaps, and anticipate changes in the external environment.
9. Drive continuous improvement and evolution across the organization.
You are
* Fluent in Dutch and English and located in the Netherlands.
* Hold a university degree in a relevant field.
* Have 5+ years of experience in managing team members with different management styles.
* Possess multiple years of program management and change management experience.
* Have experience in the consumer finance, automotive finance, or leasing industry.
* Understand how systems work and the technical thinking patterns of your colleagues.
* Exhibit strong communication and management skills, with technical to functional translation skills and vice versa.
* Demonstrate strategic thinking, analytic and problem-solving ability.
* Build strong relationships and understand the needs and agendas of others.
* Achieve alignment while considering different stakeholders and initiatives.
* Possess a 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, 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 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 with diverse nationalities.
* A laptop and phone.
* Competitive salary, 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 or reimbursement of the entire journey using an NS Business Card.
* Development and growth opportunities with various training options.
* The possibility to work partly from home with a home office allowance (€3,35).
Join the team! This is your chance to use your talent in a dynamic, international organization. Please respond by sending your application to For 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.
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