IT Business Partner - Production

Why we are here     
Tony’s Chocolonely is committed to ending exploitation in the cocoa industry, and our chocolate factory plays a crucial role in this. The more bars we produce from our ethically sourced) cocoa beans, the higher the positive impact in the world! We are an impact company that makes chocolate, not a chocolate company that makes impact. 

We are now in the exciting phase of expanding our production facilities in Borsbeek, Belgium. By joining us, you will play a key role in shaping and streamlining the IT roadmap to produce our delicious, high-quality chocolate that is sold worldwide!  

With incredibly tasty chocolate, we lead by example, demonstrating that ethical practices and success can go hand in hand.  We are committed to supporting your personal growth and creating a workplace where equality and transparency are central. 

What you will do     

We are looking for a new IT Business Partner to join our team in Borsbeek. In this role your main goal is to create, improve, and maintain a world-class production IT landscape for our expanding factory. You act as a trusted IT partner for our factory team and ensure smooth implementation and continuous improvement of the IT roadmap. 

You will be part of the global IT team and report directly to the Senior Manager IT Infrastructure, who is based in Amsterdam. As you will be working from Borsbeek, you will have a dotted reporting line to the Factory Director. If you're enthusiastic about optimizing key IT production processes at a growing factory and making a positive impact in the world of cocoa, we want to hear from you!  

All wrapped up 

• Drive the technical production roadmap. As the IT representative of the factory office and production teams, you challenge your IT business partner colleagues’ functional wishes and demands on technical feasibility, IT goals, roadmap, and dependencies. 

• Sprint planning. You constantly align with development and integration partners to ensure solid progress. 

• Manage backlog. You re-evaluate priorities regularly and align with the factory and production teams, partners, and IT team on where to focus on sprint planning. 

• Monitor the IT budget. You evaluate changes and projects against set budgets and business value. 

• Automate processes. You evaluate manual processes and create business cases and functional requirements with production stakeholders to automate when possible. You aim to reach scalability, increase efficiency, and minimize human errors.

Our ideal New Edition 

• You are an IT business partner with a deep technical understanding of fast-paced production processes. 

• You have demonstrated experience in optimizing and installing new production lines. 

• You are an independent self-starter and proactive problem solver. You are quick to come up with solutions and escalate when needed. 

• You are a clear communicator and manage stakeholders effectively at all levels. You are comfortable in working in an environment predominantly in Dutch/Flemish. 

• You are familiar with ERP systems and experienced with providing hardware support. 

• You are comfortable working at least 3-4 days a week from our factory in Borsbeek, Belgium. 

• You raise the bar: challenge yourself and team Tony’s to increase our ambition and to accomplish our mission. Making mistakes along the way and learning from them.    

• Believe wholeheartedly in Tony’s purpose. You live our core values: outspoken, willful, entrepreneurial and makes you smile.     

Our benefits (the icing on the cake)     

At Tony's you will get the opportunity to be part of something extraordinary; first, by making a real impact in the world but also enjoying the nice benefits we provide as you help us succeed. We are dedicated to enabling all Tonys to grow and develop their careers and therefore we offer training programs, regular feedback cycles, coaching, and an L&D budget. We also offer a wide range of additional benefits, including lunch vouchers, company bonus, generous vacation days, pension and medical insurance, inspirational team updates, and unlimited chocolate. But we also know chocolate will not cover the bills, so we have made sure your salary is just as rewarding. For this role that means a salary between €57k-€78k on a yearly basis.    

Sounds like you?    

Are you passionate about making a difference in the world? Look no further! If you are ready to take the chocolate industry to new heights with us, we would love to hear from you. Please send your direct application, no agencies. We cannot wait to hear from you!    

Everybody is welcome to apply. From classics to limited editions, we know that different flavors make life more inspiring. And not just in our chocolate assortment. At Tony’s, we welcome everyone with equal enthusiasm – regardless of race, colour, age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, or veteran status. Crazy about chocolate, serious about people.