The Vice President, IT Information Systems is a senior leadership role, responsible for coordinating and overseeing the strategic IT activities in support of functional priorities, such as strategic plans, initiatives, business optimization, and organizational development processes.
This senior leadership role supports the technology selection and qualification of value-stream aligned products that supports the execution of the global IT strategy whilst fostering a collaborate and innovative team culture focused on operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
Acts as a principal aide to the IT function to coordinate activities in support of IT priorities, to include the development and implementation of functional and organizational processes and procedures in support of functional and organizational goals.
Prepares detailed operating and financial reports in support of strategic objectives.
Provides operational guidance to senior leadership and develops detailed work plans for the completion of tasks.
Acts as manager for IT transformation projects that are key to functional and strategic success.
Conducts IT project status with senior leadership in support of institutional goals.
Continuously drives innovation into the function– through leveraging emerging technologies, optimizing cost, automation, and changing ways of working.
Manages senior business relationships within the value streams, helping to balance and prioritize business demand with supply/delivery capacity constraints.
Implements, maintains and monitors standards, controls, processes, and solutions to minimize business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all Legal and Regulatory requirements and standards.
Drives continuous improvement within the IT function and IT services offered to the business.
Plays an advisory, facilitative and managerial role within the organization and develops, communicates and drives the implementation of the IT function.
Maintains senior leadership relationships across multiple business areas to drive the achievement of divisional objectives.
Manages the operational and capital expenditure budget.
Executes on policy development and inspires action by providing comprehensive advice on operational processes to achieve efficiencies.
Negotiates critical matters with senior leadership and drives the implementation of decisions taken across the assigned geography.
Collaborate with partners to ensure the company is reviewing the latest technologies on a regular basis.
Work with the company business units to identify areas of opportunity to reduce the cost of technology acquisition.
Knowledge and Attributes:
Substantial decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
Substantial understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.
Substantial understanding of organizational mission, values, and goals and consistent application of this knowledge.
Ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner.
Substantial ability to successfully lead, manage, and motivate large, diverse, and complex teams.
Substantial understanding of Information and Technology fundamentals and general technologies.
Ability to influence and drive prioritization whilst keeping the customer at the center.
Ability to build bridges between IT and other divisions/functions/business units in the company.
Substantially vast leadership expertise to establish strategic direction as well as significant depth of technical expertise in current trends in technology.
Substantially vast analytical and problem-solving capabilities coupled with an excellent strategic and business mind-set.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
Advanced degree such as an MBA is highly advantageous.
Relevant certifications such as ITIL, Service Management, Scaled Agile are beneficial.
Required Experience:
Substantial demonstrable experience as a senior IT leader, preferably gained within a global IT services organization.
Substantial background in designing/developing IT systems and planning IT implementations.
Substantial background in driving IT/Digital transformation programs/initiatives.
Substantial demonstrable leadership experience managing several direct reports at a senior level.
Substantial knowledge or business experience in other business units or functional areas.
Knowledge and application:
Applies broad extensive cross organizational knowledge to participate in building business strategies and plans.
Approves operational policies and implementation thereof.
Problem solving:
Develops and implements strategic plans and objectives in alignment with corporate strategy.
Motivates for new tools/methods.
Interaction:
Regularly interacts with executive level management and major customers on extremely critical and strategic matters.
Impact:
Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of long-term company operations.
Accountability:
Facilitate cross functional/cross region cooperation.
Responsible for multiple functions, departments, and/or geographic marketplaces.
