IT Director – Commercial Architect and IT Business Partner

IT Director – Commercial Architect and IT Business Partner

Requirements

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Business ethics – Ability to practice and behave consistently and effectively in areas of business practice and conflicts of interest
• Communication – Ability to communicate effectively by getting the right message across to the right people at the right time on a regular basis
• Customer Orientation – Ability to meet customers’ expectations by identifying and anticipating customers’ needs and integrating these into work; ability to develop new added value for customers and act with the customer in mind
• Result orientation – Ability to take steps personally to ensure that mutual goals and performance targets are met within the appropriate timeframe
• Teamwork – Ability to work with others and work synergistically with fellow team-members
• Planning and Organizing – Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work and schedules in all areas to meet requirements
• Problem solving – Ability to reach logical conclusions to situations by appropriately analyzing the situation. Balances the benefits, risks and consequences of actions
• Time Management – Ability to assessing your ability to manage your time, and the effectiveness of your team to reach department objectives
• Conflict management – Ability to recognize and work towards a mutually agreeable solution when confronted with conflict
• Decision making – Ability to think through possibilities and make sound decisions with appropriate degree of risk; knows when he / she has enough data to make an informed decision
• Resilience – Ability to work under pressure and prioritize
• Strategic thinking – Ability to turn strategy into action, to see the big picture and use this ability productively
• Managing objectives – Ability to decide what needs to be accomplished and design a plan to achieve the desired results
• Team Management – Ability to delegate, motivate, mentor, develop and manage team to achieve objectives. Manage external resource against SLA and operational metrics
• Budget Management – Ability to project and present annual operation Expense and Capital budget in departmental budget process.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Business partners, IT leadership and other technical managers to oversee the strategic development of internal and cloud-based systems and help build and maintain 3-5-year roadmap for key business processes and systems
• Direct the activities for the commercial business processes related to Information Technology in the company, involving the definition, development, maintenance and operation of technology
• Advises on the selection of hardware and software to meet business partners requirements
• Oversees and reports on allocation of IT budget
• Transparently communicates throughout the IT organization and business
• Identify areas of improvements and concerns and accordingly develop action plans
• Work with business & IT to build solutions based on best practices, that utilize technologies already available where appropriate.
• Provide insights to Master Data Team for building MDM solutions around Customer, Supplier, and Product
• Provide insights and design guidance as it relates to system integrations.
• Provide business architecture, systems architecture, and systems processing guidance to IT teams including Business Analysts, System Analysts, and Infrastructure teams.
• Assist in IT Integration for M&A as well as divestures
• Guide team in templatizing data conversions activities to reduce project cycle time.
• Lead and approve design reviews
• Create and maintain System Architecture documents
• Adjust architectures to support changing requirements, maintaining performance, reliability, and security.
• Lead team and guide them through the enhancement requests
• Where appropriate, leverage Agile and devOps methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.