NA IT Director

Job Summary: ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems is seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of Information Technology to lead our IT department for the Pedestrian Business Area.

The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of our IT operations ensuring the alignment of IT strategies with business objectives and managing a significant budget. This role requires extensive experience with ERP systems and a good understanding of IT operations. The Vice President will work with the Divisional teams to implement BSP application strategy.

This is an officebased position in Monroe NC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the implementation of Infor LN ERP for the North American business following the Divisional business Strategy
• Manage and optimize the companys existing ERP systems to support business processes.
• Oversee the daily operations of the IT department ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.
• Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and develop strong working partnerships with businesses in a matrix organisation. Ability to operate in a complex matrix organisation.
• Collaborate with all departments to identify and address their IT needs.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the companys data and IT infrastructure in general but specically in the terms of software licenses subscriptions policies standards and management of budgets
• Ensure information security IT Policies are followed and support any local statutory requirements
• Manage the IT budget ensuring costeffective use of resources.
• Work in partnership with the global IT organization.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends and assess their potential impact on the company.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external vendors and service providers.
• Manage postmerger IT integration for M&A.
• Ensure good governance reporting and adherence to companys IT strategy.

Qualifications:

We are looking for a person who thrives in a global result focused and fastchanging environment with high ambitions. You are selfmotivated and driven person with an ability to inuence motivate and enthuse others. You have a cando attitude; you enjoy interacting and working with people in a highly diverse and matrix environment. To keep up with the pace and complexity of our organization you need to possess superior analytical evaluative and problemsolving abilities. You are highly driven with strong communication skills and business acumen. Extensive experience in IT with 15 years experience of managing an IT applications department in a multinational company. Proven track record of managing systems implementations upgrades and application operations in multiple countries.

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or a related field; Masters degree preferred.
• Proven experience in a senior IT leadership role preferably within a global organization.
• Extensive experience with ERP systems including implementation and management.
• Strong knowledge of data analytics and BI
• Strong understanding of IT operations including infrastructure applications and security.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Strong strategic thinking and problemsolving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Cost management and budget responsibility experience.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
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As an employer we value results not titles or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.