Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Application Specialist
Your opportunity
Huhtamaki’s Foodservice segment is currently looking for an experienced Application Specialist to join our Segment Business Applications team. As an Application Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring the stability, usability, and continuous improvement of business-critical applications that support our operations worldwide.
Reporting to the Manager, Applications, you will collaborate with colleagues across different countries and time zones, working closely with business users, Business Units, Segment teams, Global IT, and external partners to deliver reliable application services and enable business success.
Where you’ll be
The successful applicant will be based from our Foodservice site in Nules, Spain with occasional international travel to other Huhtamaki sites.
What you’ll be doing
- Provide functional and technical support for business applications and ERP platforms.
- Act as a key liaison between Business Units, Segment teams, site operations, and Global IT, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and help establish smooth, efficient, and standardized transactional processes across functions and locations.
- Bridge business and technology teams by translating business needs into practical application solutions and driving consistent process adoption.
- Support users across multiple sites and regions while coordinating activities across different time zones.
- Collaborate closely with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, HR, Operations, and other business functions.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve application issues while minimizing business disruption.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for application-related incidents, service requests, and user support.
- Manage incidents, service requests, changes, and problem resolution in line with agreed service levels.
- Coordinate with external vendors, implementation partners, and global support teams.
- Participate in ERP initiatives, application enhancements, digital transformation programs, and continuous improvement projects.
- Support application upgrades, testing activities, data validation, deployment activities, and user acceptance testing.
- Develop and maintain system documentation, knowledge articles, training materials, and support procedures.
- Monitor application performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and user experience.
- Ensure compliance with IT governance, cybersecurity standards, and company policies.
- Participate in planned support rotations and provide support during critical business periods when required.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Experience in a similar role supporting business applications and ERP platforms.
- Knowledge of IT governance, cybersecurity standards, and compliance requirements.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical application solutions.
- Experience supporting both legacy and modern applications
- Integrations experience would be advantageous.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience collaborating across multiple functions and regions.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to resolve application issues efficiently.
- Willingness to participate in support rotations and provide critical business support.
- Fluency in both Spanish and English languages.
What we offer in return
- A meaningful job: At Huhtamaki, we believe in protecting food, people and the planet. Our innovative and transformative solutions touch the daily lives of people everywhere.
- Development opportunities: We care for each other – and want to see our talent thrive and develop.
- Responsible employer: Sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We believe diverse teams fuel innovation. We invest in fostering an environment where everyone is safe both psychologically and physically and where diversity and inclusion are promoted through day-to-day behaviours, reinforced by our policies and practices.
If you have the desired skills and experience, please apply prior to the deadline of Tuesday 19th November. Please note, we will be reviewing applications as and when they come in, therefore, please do not delay your application.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Skills Required
- Experience in a similar role supporting business applications and ERP platforms
- Knowledge of IT governance, cybersecurity standards, and compliance requirements
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical application solutions
- Experience supporting both legacy and modern applications
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience collaborating across multiple functions and regions
- Problem-solving skills and ability to resolve application issues efficiently
- Willingness to participate in support rotations and provide critical business support
- Fluency in Spanish and English
- Experience with integrations
Huhtamaki Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huhtamaki and has not been reviewed or approved by Huhtamaki.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with dental and vision options, and employer contributions toward premiums are portrayed as generous. Feedback suggests this breadth makes the overall package feel competitive for many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with pre‑tax and Roth options, with certain groups also having access to a pension and even deferred compensation. Feedback suggests these features stand out positively in a manufacturing context.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and generous parental leave are emphasized alongside meaningful PTO accruals. Feedback suggests this leave structure strengthens perceived total rewards even where base pay is viewed as only fair.
Huhtamaki Insights
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
