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Functional Strategist

Functional Strategist

Do you want to define and drive the functional vision of a global enterprise platform? At Planon, part of Schneider Electric, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our Planon Application Framework (PAF). In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring functional coherence across our platform, translating business needs into scalable capabilities, and establishing a strong functional foundation that supports long-term growth and innovation.

This role operates at the intersection of business, product, and technology. You will work closely with the CTO, CPO, and other senior stakeholders to align functional strategy with platform architecture and product direction.

What will you do

  • Define and own the PAF functional strategy and roadmap, ensuring clarity of scope and long-term direction.
  • Establish and maintain a core functional capability model, ensuring consistency and scalability across the platform.
  • Ensure functional coherence and structural integrity across all platform capabilities and solution domains.
  • Translate business and solution needs into structured, reusable platform capabilities.
  • Drive prioritisation of platform capabilities based on strategic value, platform integrity, and risk.
  • Act as decision authority in cross-domain functional discussions impacting the core platform.
  • Define and safeguard functional principles behind TSI, PSS2, and UX/UI consistency, ensuring unified interaction and configuration behaviour.
  • Collaborate closely with the CTO to align functional design with technical architecture.
  • Align with the Technical Director on regulatory topics (ISO, NIS2, SIEM), ensuring compliance considerations are reflected in the functional design.
  • Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers and Functional Designers, fostering strong modelling discipline and a platform-first mindset.
  • Establish functional guardrails and governance, ensuring new developments remain aligned with platform strategy.

Profile

A company is nothing without its people. Our diverse group of employees is the beating heart of our business and the key to our collective success.

Our ideal candidate meets the following criteria:

  • 10+ years of experience in functional strategy, product management, in an enterprise software environment.
  • Strong track record in working across business, product, and technology domains.
  • Proven experience in defining scalable platform capabilities and operating models.
  • Experience in leading and mentoring teams within a product or platform environment.
  • Strong conceptual and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex needs into structured solutions.
  • Decisive and strategic thinker, able to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution.
  • Experience working in complex, evolving organizations with multiple stakeholders.
  • Highly proactive and autonomous, fluent in English is a must.

We offer

A healthy work-life balance and the possibility of working hybrid. We encourage a collaborative and learning work environment, which is why we offer constant learning and meaningful training opportunities. In addition, we offer challenging projects with world-leading clients and extraordinary experiences. For this role we offer the following benefits package. 
 
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

We know that a company is nothing without its people. Our diverse group of employees is the beating heart of Planon, and the key to our collective success. From celebrating both the big and small wins, to home working, we understand that company culture is a number one priority. Excitement, enjoyment and fun are integral to who we are and help to create a shared sense of belonging. Not only do they power our success, but they also encourage our drive and resilience.

Crucial to the personal and professional development of our people is maintaining a continuous learning culture. The Planon Academy has been set up for this reason. We encourage our people to show self-leadership, impact their personal growth and fulfil their career potential by using the range of support and tools. At the end of the day, it’s your career - we want you in the driving seat.

Our managers play a very important role in driving the talent and career development of our people. To support them in their role, we offer a specific management learning programme.

With our Healthy Hybrid Workplace framework, you have the freedom to work in a way that suits you, whether that’s from the office or home. You have the flexibility and autonomy to make sustainable choices that work for you. We believe in the benefits of coming together at the office, but we also embrace the many possibilities that working from home offers. Your wellbeing comes first.

Our application process consists of five steps:

  1. Introduction call with a recruiter
  2. First interview
  3. Assessment
  4. Second interview
  5. Offer

Learn more about our application process.

First of all, you will receive an attractive salary and benefits package. Secondly, our employees enjoy a healthy work-life balance and have multiple opportunities to grow.

Learn more about the benefits specific to your country.

Alongside developing smart sustainable building management software to support our clients on their journey to net-zero buildings, we are investing in improving the sustainability of our own operations.

In our daily activities, we adhere to sustainable business practices. We include these practices in our company values and standards, which are implemented in several ways. The UN Sustainable Development Goals play a leading role in our decision-making, and we aim to report under the CSRD and the GHG Protocol.

Learn more about Planon’s impact

We value a working culture that excludes nobody. DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging) is essential to our company and the key to unlocking the maximum potential of our individuals and teams. In everything we do, we try to break down barriers and build connections. We focus on diversity when it comes to our people, new hires, management, and leadership. We recruit, employ, and promote our colleagues based on their qualities and abilities, and do not discriminate in any manner.

Internal education also plays a big role in our DEIB programme. The programme includes internal courses and regular workshops on topics such as how to be a hiring manager, overcoming bias and intercultural competence. The global nature of our organisation and colleagues means we especially value these competences.

Planon has offices in 16 countries. The headquarters are in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

You are more than welcome to submit an open application here. We will contact you as soon as possible.

Schneider Electric is a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitisation to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centres, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes.

At Schneider Electric and Planon, we're building the future together. As a new colleague, you will be joining a partnership that's redefining what smart buildings can do. Our solutions bridge the gap between building systems (OT) and business processes (IT), transforming data into clear, actionable insights. This is where you come in: helping our customers to create buildings that drive innovation, operational efficiency and sustainability.

Together, we empower our customers to lead and inspire, crafting spaces that are efficient, optimised and have a positive impact on both our users’ lives and our planet.

These are the steps of our onboarding process:

  1. You will receive a welcome letter with information about your first working day.
  2. Your manager will welcome you on your first day and give you a tour of the office.
  3. You will collect your laptop and other assets from IT and visit HR to finalise the administrative onboarding.
  4. You follow the three-day online induction course by the Planon Academy.
  5. After your probation period, your manager discusses the continuation of the employment contract with you.

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