Job Description
Company profile:
Our client OCLC, headquartered in the USA, is a major player in the field of library automation for public, scientific and special (hospital, prison, museums, etc.) libraries. OCLC has approximately 20 offices spread across 4 continents: Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. In the Netherlands they have two locations: Leiden and Eelde. OCLC’s mission is ‘knowledge is meant to be shared’. With a job within the international OCLC you contribute to this mission in supporting libraries and keeping information accessible… worldwide!
You can find more information about our client on www.oclc.org.
For OCLC we are looking for a:
EMEA Product Analyst CBS
Location: Leiden
Your role:
At the OCLC European headquarters in Leiden, we have a unique job opening for a cooperative and communicative Product Analyst, who can relate well to different specialist groups from different cultures.
For this diverse job you will work with both an external as well as an internal oriented perspective: depending on the prioritization of projects you will be the liaison to our essential CBS business partners, as well as to our professional metadata specialists and highly skilled development teams in Europe and the US.
In this position you will, for example, be deeply involved in collecting and formulating technical and functional CBS (business user) requirements, but also supporting implementation or development projects with your expertise.
You are a member of the EMEA Product Management team, reporting to the Senior Product Manager Syndeo.
- You will work on collecting or creating detailed information utilized in strategic decision-making regarding product and configuration development, pricing, positioning, and release;
- You can translate requests of customers to software solutions and user stories with acceptance criteria as well as assessing and testing these;
- You liaise with EMEA development- and metadata staff to ensure that development output meets requirements and/or specifications;
- You provide product support to sales, implementation and customer support teams by operating as a subject matter expert (SME);
- You will assist with creating and coordinating year-plans in consultation with our internal teams or our CBS business partners;
- You like to travel occasionally to our CBS partners in the Netherlands, Germany and France to meet their library IT-specialists;
- You like to meet the Global Development team at the OCLC Corporate office in Dublin (Ohio).
About CBS
CBS stands for Controlled Bibliographic Service and it plays an important role in OCLC’s strategy. Our goal is to connect national and regional library infrastructures with our global infrastructure. Enabling libraries to share their collected knowledge and providing cooperative metadata creation and maintenance. In fact, the core strength of CBS is metadata management in all its aspects: ranging from online cataloguing to batch processes for record conversion, import, clustering, and matching & merging – and from file-based batch exports to online synchronization of metadata with local library systems, online catalogues, discovery platforms and WorldCat (OCLC’s World Catalogue).
You can offer us
- a bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Business Informatics, or other equivalent experience in metadata or IT;
- a minimum of 2-3 years work experience, preferably in (library) product analysis, product- and project management and/or software development;
- strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English;
- the eagerness to learn technical and complex subjects and be open to change and cultural differences;
- beneficial: presentation- and/or training skills, experience in an Agile/SCRUM environment;
- willingness to travel in the Netherlands, Europe and the US as described.
You can expect from us
- a rewarding role in a solid, professional and fun team within an innovative and international IT-organization with interesting opportunities for growth, training and development;
- a competitive salary (depending on education and experience);
- 26 vacation days per year, option to buy or sell additional days for a healthy work- life balance;
- a premium free pension plan;
- end of year bonus;
- and much more secondary benefits, such as tax free sports memberships, an employee assistance program, internet allowance etc.
Interested? Contact Ypsylon HR Group
The entire recruitment and selection process is provided by Ypsylon HR Group. If you are interested in this position and meet the requirements, please respond via [email protected] or via our website www.ypsylon.nl
For questions, please contact Frans van de Ven, tel. 06 – 27 10 33 69 or Daniel Charmes, tel. 06 – 25 10 22 43.
