IT Business Lead

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Primary Function_**

The individual will partner closely with his/her functional stakeholders for the purpose of business-IT joint strategy development, solution discovery, project planning & delivery, service management, risk management and relationship management in the above domains. This includes collaboration with teams within the BU, across the region and with peer groups globally.

Individual has direct accountability for the timeliness and quality of services that are provided by our staff and third-party service providers.

This role will provide leadership in the delivery of projects spanning across the enterprise technology app domain with primary focus on HR and Process Excellence, in addition, be the advocate of automation and lead discovery activities, solutioning and delivery of technical solutions.

**_Dimensions_**
- Ownership for all IT activities in the Snacks enterprise app space with strong focus in HR and Process Excellence domains
- Ownership for all IT activities in the Snacks technology automation space
- Best practice/knowledge sharing and cross business collaboration across other BU in the region
- Be the bridge of dialogues within the region and/or with the global IT teams with respect to initiatives within the enterprise app and automation space
- Member of AMEA Snacks IT team and AMEA Enterprise IT team

**_ Responsibilities_**

**Business IT Partnering**
- JBP (Joint business planning)
- Provide thought leadership around the use of technology to achieve business goals and objectives
- Setup and drive digital agenda, across process, people and technology collaborating with business stakeholders
- Provide thought leadership around the use of technology to achieve business goals and objectives. Define and agree on business case including clear and tangible business case, benefit case and CBA (Costs benefit analysis)
- Owns the budgetary and investment needs planning required
- Understands the current as-is state(s) and jointly align on to-be state(s) with a strong focus in business enablement via technology simplification and automation
- Works with broader team (Internal / external teams - architects, PM, delivery) to discuss potential solutions that match the functional business strategy with the technology strategy with integrated solutions

**Program and delivery management**
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Enterprise Applications**:

- Ensures the end-to-end business blueprinting and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is performed OTIF (On time in Full) and in accordance with agreed quality metrices
- Close collaboration with a mix of both internal and external resources - genre of 3 party vendors, internal architects, and program managers, both global and region.
- **Automation**:

- Discovery
- Lead discovery activities to uncover opportunities to automate with a spirit of simplification and technology enablement
- Bottoms up discovery - Pulsing from feedback on the ground, and/or proactive ‘hunting’ from bottoms up. Understanding current as-is, wastage identification and automation to eliminate wastages
- Top-down discovery - Understanding of known/global/region ready solutions that can be retrofitted or deployed to deliver scale and quick wins
- Advocate and change manage a simplification mindset
- Delivery
- Point project management specific initiatives/leads and ideas generated and aligned with functional stakeholders from the “Discovery” process
- Ensures the end-to-end business solutioning and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is performed OTIF (On time in Full) and in accordance with agreed quality metrices
- Close collaboration with a mix of both internal and external resources - genre of 3 party vendors, internal architects, and program managers, both global and region
- Continued measure post go-live to ensure automation initiatives delivers the business cases and measurement defined. Driving continuous enhancements and improvements as required

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Education and Experience_**
- 5-10 years of relevant technical and business work experience.
- Good Knowledge and proven experience in HR process and HR enterprise platforms (SuccessFactory, Workday etc.)
- Proven track record and experiences in the following HR domains
- Time & Attendance, including access controls and vendor management, Leave Management, Payroll management and integration
- Proven Knowledge and proven experience in Process Mapping, Process blueprinting and Process simplification is a must
- Experience in building digital workflows through a suite of internal and/or external off the shelf platforms
- Lean six sigma/Kanban expertise is a bonus
- Good Knowledge and proven experience automation/RPA platforms (Blue