Group IT Ope­ra­tions Manager

Are you passionate about ensuring successful IT operational performance in an international manufacturing company? Do you want to join our growth journey? Are you ready to walk the extra mile to create results? You will join our Group IT department, where you will be offered a key position with staff responsibility. We are offering an exciting and challenging job, where we have high expectations, but provide a great room of freedom to act and opportunities to develop.

Team

You will join our Group IT team, currently a team of 2 employees located at the headquarter in Esbjerg and 1 employee located in our subsidiary in Hungary. You should expect to have daily, weekly, and monthly contact and communication with colleagues in the IT support in Hungary and with all key stakeholders in the organization. Your reference will be to the CFO.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an ambitious and energetic colleague, who is willing to make a difference and who is motivated by challenging existing processes, solutions and thinking - a person who is fact-based and is eager to understand the ‘Whys’ before the ‘What’s’.

To succeed in the role, you enjoy taking full responsibility and working with the business to achieve common goals while always seeking to challenge, optimize and improve processes.

You have an analytical and proactive approach to tasks and projects, and you have a great sense of urgency in terms of business needs. Even in a sometimes hectic environment, you can smoothly balance your attention to the overview as well as the detail. As you have a broad range of stakeholders inside and outside of the organization and at all levels, you have excellent collaboration and communication skills. 

Experience and qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft products and key interest in digitalization, process automation etc.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and practices
• Communicate fluently in English both written and spoken.
• Relevant education and minimum 3 to 5 years of experience from a similar role with system management experience, servers, network etc.
• Knowledge of AX are preferable, but not essential.

Roles and responsibility

• Responsible for Group IT infrastructure and strategy
• Responsible for the delivery of IT systems and IT support services and ensuring that they meet business requirements
• Responsible for efficient first-level onsite-support
• Supervising the day-to-day usage, operation, and maintenance of both new and former computer systems, providing user training and support as needed
• Verification of computer systems and application services, IT security procedures, preparing requirement specifications for computer systems and managing the configuration in IT
• Manage major incidents and disaster recovery in IT as well as System Transition.
• Active participation in the budget process at group level
• Microsoft systems, SQL and Oracle server administration and maintenance
• Server virtualization implementation, operation, maintenance, and backup
• Cisco network administration
• IT security best practices (hardware, software, network, data, database, security, and communication lines)
• Network configuration, management, and administration.
• Expected travel days will be 10-20 days per year

We offer:

• Employment in an innovative company where we prioritize good working conditions
• An exciting and varied job content in a 100 % Danish-owned international growth company
• An informal organization with responsibility, flexibility, and freedom to act
• Salary and benefits in line with market conditions.

Are you interested in joining our team?

In case you have any questions, feel free to contact CFO Jannie Tholstrup, telephone +45 2289 9127.

If you are interested in joining our team, and feel that you possess the necessary skills, we look forward to hearing from you. Please upload your application in English via the "Apply" link on the page.

We are hoping to find our new colleague as soon as possible, but we are willing to wait for the right candidate.

A/S Vestfrost Solutions is a Danish-owned company with production and development in both Denmark and Hungary. Based on extensive know-how about refrigerators and freezers, value-creating B2B solutions are sold internationally to the business areas: Biomedical, Cold Chain Equipment, Merchandising & Wine. The company is today a leader in innovative, customer-specific solutions as well as energy- and environment-optimized refrigeration equipment. A/S Vestfrost Solutions, which is headquartered in Esbjerg, currently has a turnover of just over DKK 600 million and has approx. 520 employees, of which there are approx. 270 employees in the 100 % owned subsidiary Vestfrost Zrt. in Hungary.