Technical Consultant Business Applications
OMP enjoyed a strong growth the past years. This growth resulted in the development of own tools and the purchase of external tools to support different business processes for several teams. OMP wants to further professionalize these activities: centralize, further develop and support internal and external tools. For example, we have internal tools for sales forecasts and reporting, resource planning and logging, supporting the recruitment process and more . We use external tools like Omnitracker and Salesforce.com. We are looking for a colleague who will take the responsibility for some of these tools.
Your Company?
We are OMP, a software and consulting company delivering advanced supply chain planning solutions specifically tailored to individual industries worldwide. Our aim is to make every customer’s day by optimizing their supply chain. How do we do that?
With our very own innovative planning software that meets and then exceeds expectations. With a workforce numbering more than 600 in offices around the world, we have become a prominent player in the supply chain planning space.
Our customers include many leading global companies, such as ArcelorMittal, BASF, Dow, L’Oréal, Michelin, Procter & Gamble, Shaw, Shell, Smurfit Kappa, and Yoplait. We serve our customers from our head office in Belgium and regional offices in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine, and the US.
Your Profile You have a bachelor or master's degree, or similar by experience.
Programming skills are required (macro coding such as VBA).
Experience with SQL is a definite advantage. Knowledge of web development (HTML) is a plus. Preferably you have some professional experience in the area of application development. You have an analytical mindset and you can keep track of the bigger picture. You can work autonomously and you are analytical and punctual.
You have good communication skills. You are able to connect with the different stakeholders.
Your Challenge
You will be responsible for some of our internal business applications. These applications support different activities in a variety of teams. Some examples:
- Finance & Administration: Sales forecast and sales order application; including sales reporting.
- Training & Documentation: Administration and planning of both internal and external courses; including processing of feedback from teachers and participants.
- Recruitment: Processing of incoming resumes; feedback of reviewers; monitoring actions, events and budget.
- Sales & Marketing: Administration and planning of shows & seminars; monitoring sales budget.
- Software Development: Planning and follow-up of software development tasks and resources according to the scrum methodology.
- Project Management: Resource planning for both internal and external projects; time logging application to measure time of consultants spent on different projects.
Your challenge will be to translate the functional requirements into technical solutions. Therefore, you will work in close collaboration with the functional responsibles for the different tools and with the solution architect internal business applications.
You will continuously improve the tools and develop new functionalities.
You will collect the functional requirements, analyze them and translate them into technical requirements. As a next step you will design and develop the solutions. You will validate it with the different stakeholders. Then you will implement and test the developments. Finally, you will document the tools and train your colleagues.
Your colleagues can rely on your support and maintenance of the tools.
The applications are developed in our own internal data management application (OMP Editor) based on an Oracle database (SQL). Adjustments and developments will be done in our own programming language, OPAL (comparable with VBA).
Besides the internal applications, there is also the opportunity to support some of our external applications (e.g. Salesforce.com, Omnitracker) and to develop web tools (e.g. reporting).
You are fluent in English.
