Junior Communications Specialist
At Portbase, we work every day on the smartest and most efficient ports in Europe. With our Port Community System (PCS), we connect thousands of organizations in the port logistics chain.
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This job advert was originally written in Dutch.
You have experience with the management and further development of (the HR module of) AFAS. Knowledge of and experience with other modules is a great advantage;
You have a high sense of responsibility and do not hesitate to take your own initiative;
You feel comfortable acting as a connector, dealing with various stakeholders;
You are analytical and able to look beyond the boundaries of your function to arrive at a problem analysis;
You know how to quickly gain insight into how business processes operate in order to respond to user questions;
HBO level of work and thinking
An attractive annual salary, including holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus equal to one month's salary.
A fixed budget to set up your home workspace and a monthly home office allowance.
26 vacation days with the possibility to purchase extra days.
An inclusive working environment including diversity leave. This amounts to 14 hours per year on a full-time basis. You can use diversity leave at your own discretion for a holiday that is important to you.
Full control over your own development with the right support. You are the director, we facilitate.
Space for innovation, own initiative, and creative ideas.
An inspiring working environment in which collaboration and impact are central.
At Portbase we work hybrid. Decide flexibly where and when you can work most comfortably and effectively. You determine this together with your team and manager.
Excellent secondary employment conditions, such as travel allowance and a good pension scheme.
Annually you receive a vitality budget of €250,- which you can spend freely each year for your own vitality.
As an AFAS Functional Administrator, you are responsible for the management, further development, and optimal deployment of AFAS within Portbase.
The emphasis in your role lies on the HRM module, but you are also willing and motivated to master the CRM and ERP modules. This allows you to make a broad contribution to the further integration of AFAS within the organization and support colleagues across multiple domains.
At Portbase, we use all components of AFAS, including various complex connections with other systems. Your expertise helps to continuously improve and maintain the stability of this environment.
Resolving incidents and translating user wishes and needs;
Optimizing and professionalizing HRM processes and adjacent modules;
Rolling out and further developing functionalities within HRM, CRM, and ERP;
Managing (user) authorizations and ensuring data security;
Performing analyses and preparing reports;
Gathering requirements from the organization and translating these into a future-proof configuration of AFAS;
Maintaining contact with stakeholders such as users, IT, and the supplier, and coordinating any issues with AFAS consultants.
You work in a team with two Helpdesk employees, a Microsoft Administrator, and an Internal Automation Service Manager.
The key users are your colleagues from the HR, Finance, and Sales teams. You act as the first point of contact and actively take work off the hands of the key users by handling incidents, wishes, and changes independently or in collaboration with consultants.
You plan and prioritize user requests, elaborate on them further, and coordinate progress in weekly meetings with the key users, during which the stories for the sprint are also discussed.
Step 1: One of our recruiters will contact you for an initial introduction; we are also happy to answer all your questions.
Step 2: A 1st interview at our office with your future manager and one of our recruiters
Step 3: An online assessment in the form of a game that you can complete from home in a maximum of 30 minutes.
Step 4: A 2nd interview at our office with one of your most important stakeholders and a colleague from the team.
Step 5: An offer.
Step 6: You receive your contract and we start the pre-employment screening. The screening is carried out by an external party.
If you want to know more about this vacancy or working at Portbase, please contact one of our recruiters via werkenbij@portbase.com
With this vacancy, we are recruiting our new colleague ourselves. If we are unsuccessful, we will take the step to engage an agency to help us. We therefore do not appreciate acquisition. We are not open to ZZP (freelance) or temporary arrangements for this vacancy.
We operate as an IT company and as a logistics service provider. We are both, and that makes us strong. We know the market, the players, and their interests. We bring parties together, initiate chain agreements, and work together on solutions that make Dutch ports and their supply chains attractive to companies that want to transport goods via Europe.
We listen attentively to all parties in the logistics chain. From shipping company to terminal, from driver to customs officer: all links in the chain have their own challenges. We therefore work for the entire port community. They work more efficiently and effectively simply by processing 90 million transactions per year via 43 different services on time.
Portbase has existed since 2002 and we are proud of that. What once began with the task of digitizing paperwork has grown into one of the most progressive Port Community Systems in the world and a connecting factor between all port partners.
In the future, too, we will continue to take the lead in developing chain-wide digital solutions to make integrated service provision simpler and safer. If there is one thing we have learned in recent years, it is that we cannot stand still. As a port community, we are in motion. Literally.
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