Title:  BTS CA&C L&RA Director

Job ID:  42731 Country:  Switzerland City:  Geneva Professional area:  Information Technology Contract type:  Permanent Professional level:  Experienced Location: 

Geneva, GE, CH, 1630

 

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Business Technology Services CA&C L&RA Director – Geneva, Switzerland

 

The Position:
The Business Technology Functional Lead is the senior, lead IT position to serve Corporate Affairs & Communication -CA&C- and Legal & Regulatory Affairs -L&RA- functions in all IT projects, systems and technology services. 
The position is therefore a strategic IT leadership position that liaises on a regular basis with the Corporate Affairs & Communication and Legal & Regulatory Affairs Functional Management Teams (VPs and Directors) to align on priorities, define Digital Technology Roadmaps, required budget and resources; delivering following agile methodologies. 
Judge and advise on innovation, technologies and/or IT services available to support the delivery of CA&C and L&RA business objectives, including also briefings on the technology industry trends relative to our JTI business (CGs, Pharma, etc.).

 

The Profile:

IT-Business Planning Leadership:

• IT Director supporting the Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs functions, responsible to lead the Digital Technology Roadmap and oversee all IT related matters with and "end-to-end" IT service delivery mindset. This includes 'one face to the business' in non BTS related issues (Microsoft solutions, Agile collaboration solutions, SAP development, network performance, etc.)


• Work directly with the Function leadership team to fully understand the business plan.


• Is the senior IT point of escalation for the Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs functions for any IT related matter.


• Manages the interdependencies between business initiatives requiring integrated- or shared IT services.


• Proactively pursue innovative solutions, in the area of both business processes and information technology, to enhance efficiency/effectiveness.


• Represents IT on operational steering committees of major functional initiatives.

Service Delivery Management:

• Act as single and most senior point of escalation for the management of IT related issues and/or topics affecting Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs.


• Overall responsibility for Change Requests, Incidents, Business Services, Projects and Business Applications assigned to his/her area.


• Define and manage IT performance KPIs (e.g. Incident trends, change request backlog, etc.) relevant to the Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs functions.


• Track- and influence the performance of all/any IT related services relevant to the function (e.g. ERP performance, networks).


• Working with fellow business functional- or process leads in an Agile way, manage the risk of interdependent IT processes, services & systems.

IT Strategy Management:

• Ensures that the creation and management of JTI's overall corporate IT vision and strategy reflects the requirements and priorities of the Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs functions into Digital Technology Roadmaps.


• Likewise, ensure the Corporate Development and Legal & Regulatory Affairs functions are fully aware of- and understands the JTI IT vision and strategy.


• Functional knowledge and network of providers within CGs or Pharma who can support the Digital journey. 


• Experience on M&As is a plus.

IT Governance:

• Ensure application of corporate IT systems change management policy.


• Drive cost avoidance through the alignment as much as possible to corporate application standards.


• Ensure Global Reference Model (GRM) governance for all global applications in his/her area and guard process standardization and in the same time ensure that legal/statutory requirements are met.


• Decrease technology risk and reduce cost through following corporate IT technology standards and guidelines.


• Ensure own team fulfills IT budget commitments.


• Track and/or manage business budget related to technology spend (as agreed with relevant business leaders).

Compliance:

• Ensure a consistent application of computer controls that support financial audit requirements, for example, fulfill legislative archiving requirements of corporate data.


• Ensure IT systems falling under J-SOX scope fulfil audit requirements.


• Ensure compliance to corporate IT security policies, procedures and standards to ensure consistent protection of information assets of the business function.

People Leadership & Line Management:

• Implement the appropriate organization design of IT personnel that ensures clarity and accountability for attaining business goals and targets, and cost effectiveness overall.


• Optimize the IT culture working at the engagement cold-face with the business, seeking to obtain maximum collaboration.


• Implement performance management processes with corporate best practice.


• Direct participation in the recruitment, coaching and Dialogue process of own key team leads.

 

The Person

• University Degree in Computer or Technical Science or strong IT background, plus additional business education


• 7-10+ years of IT senior management (including people management) with more than 10 years of overall experience in IT discipline. Preferred background employment experience would be in multinational companies.


• Good working knowledge of business and related Corporate Affairs, Corporate Communications, Legal, Regulatory Affairs processes in FMCG industry.


• Should have a proficiency knowledge of technology, as well as Agile certification, advance analytics, Microsoft solutions and office expertise.


• Advanced English

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