Vice President of IT

Reporting to the Global CIOthis role leads technology for the ANZ region within a complex multinational environment. The Vice President of IT will take accountability for strategy architecture delivery and operating cadence across a sizeable local team and offshore capability while aligning to global standards and executing on global priorities.

The role is heavily focused on moving technology from a reactive delivery function to a trusted strategic partner. The successful candidate will shape investment priorities influence executive decision making and ensure technology enables regulatory confidence for scalable growth and a consistent high quality digital customer experience across product and administration.

In addition this role will act as the primary regional conduit between global technology strategy and local execution. You will translate global priorities into pragmatic regional roadmaps balancing risk value and capacity while ensuring ANZ requirements are clearly represented at a global level. Success in the role will come from strong stakeholder alignment disciplined prioritisation and the ability to create momentum through clarity rather than noise.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the ANZ technology strategy aligned to global direction and local market needs
• Act as a senior advisor to executive stakeholders on technology risk investment and opportunity
• Lead a technology function of approximately 50 FTE with additional offshore capability and full budget accountability
• Establish strong governance delivery rhythm and operating discipline across change initiatives
• Design regulatory ready technology architectures with compliance data governance and auditability embedded by design
• Drive end to end customer experience transformation across digital product and administration platforms
• Champion SaaS first cloud native and AI enabled environments at enterprise scale
• Rationalise complex application landscapes to reduce cost improve integration and increase reliability
• Partner closely with global technology leaders shared services teams and strategic vendors
• Build credibility through consistent delivery measurable outcomes and transparent communication

Candidate Profile

You are an experienced technology executive who has operated at regional CIO or equivalent level within a global B2C organisation. You are comfortable in matrix environments with international reporting lines and bring the presence and credibility required to influence senior leaders across regions functions and cultures.

You bring strong financial acumen with deep experience in budget ownership business casing and value based investment decisions. Your background includes leading large scale platform programs within SaaS first cloud and AI enabled environments while simplifying legacy estates and lifting delivery maturity. You combine strategic thinking with pragmatic execution and are known for calm disciplined leadership in complex and fast moving organisations.

Critically you are a relationship led leader who seeks to understand before acting. You build trust through transparency delivery and consistency and are comfortable challenging constructively when required. Your communication style is grounded in data and outcomes enabling you to clearly articulate trade offs risks and investment rationale to executive and non technical stakeholders alike while maintaining focus on student experience and long term organisational performance.

Company Culture and Benefits

This organisation is a highly respected multinational with a purpose led culture centered on customer experience outcomes and global collaboration. The environment values accountability partnership and thoughtful leadership and offers meaningful exposure to international stakeholders and leading technology vendors.

• Executive leadership role with global visibility and progression potential
• Opportunity to shape a large scale international product and platform
• Hybrid working environment with international collaboration.

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If this opportunity aligns to your background and career ambitions please submit your resume via the apply link. The reference number for this role is DJ67877.