Business Consultant IFS Cloud

Responsibilities

Critical Success Factors:

You independently bring structure to complex and changing situations;

• Business & Process Analysis: You analyze end-to-end business processes and needs and translate them into concrete solution directions and necessary changes in process, system, and methodology.
• Requirements: You translate needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria that stakeholders can work with.
• Impact Analysis: You make clear what impact changes have on processes, users, IFS, data, integrations, and surrounding systems.
• Realization & Implementation: You monitor the coherence between activities still needed to successfully and practically implement solutions.
• Business & IT Readiness: You identify what is needed to make both business and IT ready for upcoming releases, make readiness criteria explicit, and monitor the necessary follow-up.
• Change & Adoption: You make clear what changes mean for users, processes, roles, and methodologies and ensure that the necessary change and adoption activities are part of the implementation.
• Test & Acceptance: You work closely with the test team and the business and support functional testing, chain testing, and user acceptance.
• Risks & Dependencies: You identify blockages and dependencies and organize the necessary alignment and follow-up in a timely manner.
• Go-Live & Hypercare: After go-live, you monitor the practicality in operations and translate relevant findings and lessons learned into concrete improvements.
• Direction: When activities get stuck between teams or ownership is insufficiently clear, you bring the right people together and organize progress and decision-making.
• Transition: You contribute to ensuring that knowledge, processes, methodologies, and responsibilities are increasingly embedded in the standing organization throughout 2027.
• You do not wait for information but actively seek it out;
• You quickly understand dependencies between business, processes, systems, and teams;
• You combine strong analysis with decisiveness and execution capability;
• You maintain an overview when multiple releases and priorities are active simultaneously;
• You are a strong discussion partner for both business and IT;
• You mobilize people when activities or decision-making stagnate;
• You know how to translate complex changes into what is concretely needed to make them workable for operations;
• You feel responsible for the overall result and not just your own work package;
• You are pragmatic and results-oriented without losing sight of quality and risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's work and thinking level
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience as a Business Consultant, Implementation Consultant, or in a comparable senior role.
• Demonstrable experience with multiple full implementation cycles within a complex enterprise environment, from requirements and design to go-live and hypercare (hard requirement!).
• Demonstrable experience with complex enterprise implementations involving multiple teams, integrations, data sources, and operational users.
• Extensive experience with end-to-end business and process analysis, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrable experience with business readiness, UAT, implementation, and adoption within a business-critical environment.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including several years in a senior role within complex implementation or transformation environments.
• Demonstrable experience in organizing progress when ownership, dependencies, or decision-making are insufficiently clear.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and preferably SAFe
• Experience in organizing work across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Good command of Dutch and English.

Nice to have

Experience with IFS Cloud, Field Service Management, planning and scheduling processes, asset management, JIRA, Prosci, ITIL.

Experience working within an ART/SAFe organization.

Do you recognize yourself in the above and are you interested in this project? Please contact Marco Eindhoven of Global Enterprise Partners at telephone number [contact removed] or email [contact removed]

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Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 MONTHS
• Location: Arnhem, Netherlands, NL
• Languages: Dutch