Senior Manager, IT Strategy and Business Ops
Senior Manager, IT Strategy and Business Ops
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Team Name:
IT ManagementJob Title:
Senior Manager IT Strategy and Business OpsRequisition ID:
R025200Job Description:
Overview:
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join the IT Strategy and Operations group based in Irvine CA. In this role you will work with the Blizzard IT senior leadership team leading crossorganization and departmental projects and initiatives. The focus will be on strategic organizational development activities process and policy enhancement IT FinOps and general team operations activities.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead the planning coordination and execution of strategic initiatives for the Senior IT leadership team.
- Establish partnerships and processes to improve Studio IT operations.
- Support Studio IT Services Global Production and PMO & Operations functions.
- Facilitate communication with stakeholders and senior management teams to ensure expectations are managed correctly.
- Draw on extensive experience to understand change implications from a broad technical perspective adding a big picture view to discussions.
- Identify analyze and prioritize current departmental skillsets against the future evolution of the company.
- Drive organizational development projects within the IT team and in collaboration with all partner teams.
- Manage IT financial forecast including OpEx CapEx and headcount.
- Collaborate with team leads to standardize processes and prepare comprehensive reports for quarterly IT business review meetings.
- Responsible for IT Procurement process and team.
- Responsible for contract lifecycle management and reporting.
- Present proposals progress reports and recommendations to the highest levels in the organization both verbally and in writing.
- Manage daytoday department tasks and issues.
- Develop and drive culture initiatives at an organizational level.
- Manage sensitive crossteam engagements on subjects such as dependency alignment schedule alignment and managing expectations with internal and external customers.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Business Management Finance or a related field.
- Experience leading and managing global IT Operations and Services organizations.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in IT as a manager or higher role.
- Prior experience in managing the annual budget for a department or organization.
- Proven experience leading largescale crossorganizational complex enterprise programs or projects utilizing internal and vendor resources.
- Exceptional verbal written and interpersonal communications skills; comfortable presenting and communicating to large groups and across all levels of the organization in an effective situationally appropriate clear and highquality manner.
- Detailoriented problem solver with excellent organization skills and a data driven mindset.
- Strong working experience using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience with waterfall and agile project management methodology
- Selfmotivated with strong initiative ability to work in a dynamic work environment with selflearning abilities.
- Knowledge of current trends in Information Technology.
Pluses:
- Experience with vendor and contract management processes
- Program management certification
- Experience with various database and data analytics tools and technologies
- Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools like Jira and Confluence for task tracking dashboarding and collaboration
Thevideogameindustry and therefore our business is fastpaced and will continue to evolve. As such the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet allqualifications Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
Accommodation Request: We are committed to working with and providing reasonableassistanceto individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
Our World
At Blizzard Entertainment we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft Overwatch Diablo and StarCraftwevebeen creating genredefining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years.Wereon a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Hard work iteration and polish go into the Blizzard secret recipe but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you join us.
Thevideogameindustry and therefore our business is fastpaced and will continue to evolve. As such the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age marital status veteran status or disability status among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial wellbeing for Every World weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical dental vision health savings account or health reimbursement account healthcare spending accounts dependent care spending accounts life and AD&D insurance disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time floating holidays compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability legal service ID protection rental insurance and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary fulltime employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $116800.00 $216000.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
