Project Management Officer

At a glance

International Card Services BV (ICS) is the leading credit card specialist and largest credit card provider in the Netherlands. ICS has more than 25 years’ experience of issuing, promoting, managing, and processing Visa and MasterCard transactions. We also offer other financial services and products, such as 24/7 fraud prevention, various insurance policies and credit facilities. With an open, independent, and proactive attitude you can become the professional you want to be within ICS.
Our mission: Carefree Payments Everywhere. We offer you an opportunity to make a real difference and to have a significant impact on the success of our mission.
ICS strives to empower you to work where, when, and how you choose – with maximum flexibility and minimum constraints – to optimize your performance and to do your best work. This is supported by a creative work environment that is designed to feed your creativity and tap into the right side of your brain At ICS we are keen on building team relationships. Due to Covid we have learned to work from home more, however, we also think it is important to meet new colleagues in the office so that you will have the opportunity to get to know your coworkers personally and bond with your team.

Your job

As Project & Process Enabler you are part of the IT Office and are in co-operation with the IT Leadership team (ITL) and other (IT) stakeholders. You can work independently in co-operation with your colleague, are responsible for collecting and structuring data into clear management information, and you are responsible for various supportive tasks to optimize our IT department. You will be part of a team of 6-10 professionals, consisting of Management Consultants, Risk & Compliance, Integrators and Agile coaches. You have your own responsibilities, but you achieve your goals in close interaction with the colleagues around you.

You will support the Director IT and the ITL:
• Responsible for preparing, optimizing and merging IT documentation, for regular governance bodies, such as MT meeting, project board and risk committee;
• Responsible for the minutes and actions that result from these meetings;
• Develop and establish the project portfolio (portfolio management);
• Polish information decks in terms of content, lay out and overall quality;
• Support in organizing and facilitating periodic offsite sessions.

You will support the IT Department:
• Optimize the communication strategy and assist in executing;
• Organizing and facilitating various IT events, such as cross-sectional knowledge sessions and quarterly meetings;
• Provide a flawless onboarding and offboarding process;
• Build and maintain strong relationships with IT coworkers, to strengthen collaborations and mutually beneficial opportunities;
• Ensure project management standards are applied across the IT domain;
• Identify and implement continuous improvements to support a high performing organization;
• Other PMO tasks.

You will run (ad hoc) projects that match your talents and growth ambition.

Working environment

International Card Services BV (ICS) is the leading credit card specialist and largest credit card provider in the Netherlands. ICS has more than 25 years’ experience of issuing, promoting, managing, and processing Visa and MasterCard transactions. We also offer other financial services and products, such as 24/7 fraud prevention, various insurance policies and credit facilities. With an open, independent, and proactive attitude you can become the professional you want to be within ICS.
Our mission: Carefree Payments Everywhere. We offer you an opportunity to make a real difference and to have a significant impact on the success of our mission.
ICS strives to empower you to work where, when, and how you choose – with maximum flexibility and minimum constraints – to optimize your performance and to do your best work. This is supported by a creative work environment that is designed to feed your creativity and tap into the right side of your brain. This environment evokes a lot of passion, every day you will be working with colleagues that share your positive energy and excitement. With teamwork comes team play! At ICS we are keen on building team relationships. You will have the opportunity to get to know your coworkers personally and bond with everyone on the team. Come and join a team where you can be yourself.

Your profile

• You have 1 to 3 years of experience with a project management office role at larger organizations;
• You have a proactive mindset and a “can do” attitude;
• You have good communication skills within different levels of an organization;
• You have experience of working in an Agile environment;
• You have solid stakeholder management skills, especially with senior colleague’s;
• You have good knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint and Excel);
• You are fluent (verbally and written) in English. Dutch is useful to have but not necessary.

We are offering

In the role of Project Management Officer you contribute very directly to the new organization. We offer you the freedom to get the best out of yourself, to work flexibly and the space to grow. Because excellent service is required of you, you can expect a lot from us. Employees within ICS experience a very pleasant working atmosphere and feel strongly connected to the organization. If you come to work for us, we offer you:

• A competitive salary; €37.939 - € 54.201 (scale 8 ABN AMRO ) depends on the relevant work experience;
• An additional benefit budget of 11%, with which you can buy flexible employment conditions is included in the salary mentioned above;
• We offer you the freedom to get the best out of yourself, to work flexibly and a lot of room to grow through various E-learning courses and a personal development budget of € 1,000 per year;
• A good pension scheme in accordance with the ABN AMRO Collective Labor Agreement.

Interested?

Are you interested? Then respond to this vacancy.
For more information, you can reach Karel Bosse (karel.bosse@icscards.nl) or Mitch Denslagen (mdenslagen@icscards.nl). Let’s connect!

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

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