A position has become available for a Head - Enterprise Systems to join our dynamic team.
The purpose of the Head: Enterprise Systems role is to provide the overall leadership, vision and strategy for Enterprise system services and product solutions. While leading a high-performance team of product and portfolio managers who deliver agile and managed solutions, you will partner with Functional Heads and DC Regional Functions to ensure ‘best fit’ solutions for Functional Business Units across the Enterprise landscape.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
- Develops and maintains a multi-year strategic plan to deliver exceptional business solutions and end user experience.
- Implements a product management, team-based, operating model.
- Implements the short- and long-term Enterprise IT vision and strategic plans.
- Identifies and selects strategic solution partners.
- Manages all product solution investments and assets as part of a comprehensive suite of products and services.
- Ensures continuous and secure operation and maintenance of the Enterprise solutions portfolio.
- Manages vendor partnerships to ensure their accountability.
- Builds technical/professional capability across enterprise system services.
- Institutes Product Roadmap Strategy reviews for each portfolio.
- Creates and manages the department budget, expenses, non-recurring and capital expenditures.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Computer Science, Commercial or related Bachelor’s Degree.
- Additional Business Administration Qualification is preferable.
- 15 years’ experience leading FMCG enterprise systems, product-oriented teams to deliver business value in an ERP (SAP/SAP 4 Hana advantageous) environment across multiple geographies.
- 10 years in a management role within a large organisation in the wholesale/retail environment.
The ideal applicant will satisfy the following skills requirements:
- Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle management.
- Very good contemporary leadership capability in guiding and co-ordinating a high performance team of IT professionals and product managers.
- A very strong business customer service mindset focussed on customer satisfaction through solution and operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, presentation, and relationship skills that support the achievement of mutual success.
- Outstanding practical, problem-solving competence in leading teams in an agile environment.
- Understanding of products and systems with respect to various portfolios.
- Proven experience in building and organising product team structures, capabilities, and ways of working in an agile context (essential).
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced / dynamic team environment to meet critical deadlines.
- Experience in financial analysis, managing budgets, risks, costs & performance.
- Experience building and maintaining effective internal/external business partnerships with non-technology business leaders.
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