JOB DESCRIPTION:

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE POSITION

The position is the main vehicle to:

• Understand business strategies (functional & geographic) current and future required business capabilities. Identifying gaps and opportunities for value creation. (3-5yrs)
• Understand market/technology trends.
• Development of roadmaps containing sequencing of IT solution to facilitate the achievement of the business strategies. (3-5yrs)
• Identify standardization of processes and support solutions.
• Work with the business function/geography and IT Corporate functions to develop the different project business cases and value realization processes.
• Facilitate the understanding and support the buy in of the Functional Roadmap to the key stakeholders in the function/geography.
• Asses align filter and propose the country requirements to the regional forums in agreement with the functional/geographic VPs.
• Ensure proper and regular communication of the status of solutions and services for the specific function/geography.
• Identify and control IT functional/geography costs
• Assess with the support of Security Officer organization and 3rd parties the current and future risk profile of the function/geography.
• Ensure that organization has the capabilities and resources required to support the specific business function/geography.
• Foster required behaviours within IT communities
• Ensure execution of management routines

MAIN OUTPUTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

OUTPUTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. General

• Builds owns and nurtures strong relationships and provide value-added communications with Vice Presidents/Directors and their key direct reports.
• Works with senior business management to align and understand business strategies and develop plans for each business function/geography and how IT Strategy supports that.
• Works with senior business management on the IT Strategy to assess and establish priorities on global/regional/local initiatives.
• Works with senior business management to identify critical vs. nice to have functionality to allow re use of existing solutions process alignment and lower time to market.
• Enables IT to know technological expectations from Business side.
• Allows communications flow among IT and Business. (Costs/Projects/New Demand/Services/Audits/Risks)
• Aligns with BTS Delivery lead in region to understand delivery capacity and collaborate for best use of external IT vendors.
• Identify and manage IT Total Cost of Ownership for the specific Function/Geography
• Identify and manage IT current and future Function/Geography IT Risk Profile

2 Responsibilities

Responsible (Fulfills the task independently)

• Has relationship with internal technology teams.
• Identifies opportunities for operational efficiency.
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiations.
• Manage all business IT demand in a consolidated manner.
• Lead the development of a comprehensive portfolio of IT investments for the business area and ensures alignment and integration into the enterprise IT strategy and Project Portfolio Management.
• Actively detect and manage business process improvement & standardization and decision making support requirements.
• Ensure proper methodology is in place for improving quality and speed in understanding business requirements.
• Identify and agree with Corporate IT the use of niche vendors (Digital/BI/Analytics)

Accountable (Fulfills the task by coordinating others efforts)

• Overall solution delivery (project progress).
• Project issue resolution.
• Provides initial project estimates for cost-benefit analysis.
• Supports projects towards desired technology strategies.
• Release versioning prioritization according to business needs.

Consultant (Advises on the task)

• Participates in technology aspects of business-sponsored.
• Evaluate project objectives.
• Project prioritization.
• New business initiative analysis.
• New value added IT proposals for Business.
• Capture value added opportunities in Business Function/Geography to handle them with technology.
• Actively promote business process improvement and sustainability in alignment with enabling IT capabilities.

Informed (Is advised on the task)

• Gains understanding of business strategies.
• Stays abreast of industry trends in the business and technology.

3 Project Portfolio Demand Management

• Works with senior business managers to assess and establish priorities on business IT initiatives thought strong Demand Management council and governance.
• Upload and track initiatives on SPM tool throughout demand management process.
• Analyze business Country Project Portfolios ensuring alignment with Global / Regional Strategy.
• Challenge and improve alignment of the business requirements with the regional or global template that will be delivered by the Demand Management Process.

4 Budgeting Management

• Ensure consistency and accuracy of reported budget numbers.
• Ensure accomplishment of planned budgets.
• Monthly IT Budget follow up.

5 Execution

• Ensure appropriate communication of project progress changes next steps and milestones to the Function/Geography and the BRM community/Corporate IT.
• Propose the appropriate changes for BRM IT Organization in line with the performance and advance planning reviews to country IT Directors.
• Ensure understanding of proper best practices standards and guidelines that apply to the business.
• Assist the business during the tracking of benefits after projects implementation.
• Work collaboratively with the Corporate IT Solution Delivery organization to ensure alignment of IT demand and supply for the business areas and oversee the delivery of related IT initiatives.
• Responsible in front of the business function/geography for project delivery.
• Responsible for accomplishing the project objectives within the constraints of the project. Responsible for the outcome (success or failure) of the project.
• Involved with the planning controlling and monitoring and also managing and directing the assigned project resources to best meet project objectives.
• Controls and monitors triple constraintsproject scope time and cost (quality also) in managing competing project requirements.
• Collects metrics data (such as baseline actual values for costs schedule work in progress and work completed) & reports on project progress and other project specific information to stakeholders.
• Responsible for identifying monitoring and responding to risk issues and dependencies.
• Manage project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Work closely with users to ensure the project meets business needs.
• Resolve cross-functional opportunities at project level

6 Strategic Focus Assigned Business Area

• Ensures business function/geography priorities are communicated to IT community.
• Enable Communication of IT function/geography Strategies to business executives.
• Provides strategic consultancy support to assigned customers in filtering defining or designing business processes and requirements.
• Researches and identifies enabling solutions best practices and technologies to proactively address customer requirements in alignment with IS regional directives.

7. Control

• Examine monthly reporting ensuring justification of deviations and providing feedback to functional stakeholders.

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In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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