System & Solutions Architect Manager

**Gold Coin/Pimilco International Pte Ltd
Gold Coin Services Singapore Pte Ltd Established in Singapore in 1953, Gold Coin is a pioneer in animal nutrition and the manufacturing of scientifically balanced animal feed within Asia. Gold Coin today is one of the largest agribusinesses in the Region with 2900 employees across 9 countries.

With a milling capacity of approximately 2.6 million tonnes per year, Gold Coin offers a wide range of products for both the Livestock and the Aqua industries, including young animals and hatchery feed, premixes, concentrates and compound feed.

In May 2019, Pilmico acquired 100 percent (100%) of the total and outstanding shares in Gold Coin Management Holdings (“Gold Coin”). Pilmico is the integrated agribusiness and food company of Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. (AEV). Comprised of four divisions: Flour, Feeds, Farms, and Trading, Pilmico has been well positioned at the beginning of the value chain.

**Position Summary
More specifically this role will not only have considerable experience in systems implementation but will also have a successful record in change management and delivery of systems and reporting to meet Gold Coin requirements for both today and to facilitate future growth. It is important that the significant capabilities of, and information contained in the Gold Coin ERP system is identified and presented to encourage full utilization by and to the benefit of management and the Company.

Additionally, develop and implement Group IT strategies and operational standards according to business needs to be aligned with current and long-term business objectives. Contribute to business planning at the top executive level so that future IT challenges in the areas of ERP and consolidation requirements will be sufficiently flexible and robust to ensure the organization’s IT strategy can deliver and be aligned with the business requirements and strategies. Is one of the key members in Gold Coin Digital Transformation Project.

**Job Responsibilities
Gather Functional Requirements from respective key stakeholders and users, to gain a complete sense of internal stakeholders’ expectations and limitations before undertaking a major development project. In this process, the incumbent will need to examine existing systems and programs to identify areas for improvement and integration.
- Develop Specifications, before developers can begin work on a project, the system and solution architect use his/her knowledge with the functional requirements and existing systems to develop project specifications. The incumbent may develop schedules and test plans, prepare documentation based on analyst reports, and assemble documents presenting project guidelines and milestones to team members. In this process, he may identify potential issues between systems and users specifications and propose new solutions to work around these limitations.
- Determine Project Scope, the incumbent is also responsible for determining a project’s scope before develops/begin any major work. Extra research is conducted on Gold Coin existing systems and configurations to determine whether added time and work is necessary to align the project with enterprise-level system. He will communicate directly to the internal stakeholders, key users, and system developers.
- The System and Solution Architect is responsible in ensuring the specifications and requirements are clearly articulated to the development team, he will monitor the timelines and progress to ensure that the team members are adhering to these specifications.
- Manage External Vendors, he will work with outside vendors to develop and implement specific aspects of the software solutions. In this aspect, he will consider costs and timelines and ensure the vendors meet deadlines for deliverable and project elements. He/she may review proposals and estimates from the vendors and determine whether the quotation fit into existing budgetary and time restrictions and ensure that external solution work with internal development projects.
- Responsible for the successful development and implementation of the recommended information technologies and solutions, working with cross-functional, multi-project team resources to ensure solutions are delivered on-time and on budget according to defined scope, timeline and cost parameters while ensuring reliability, quality, and delivery meet or exceed business requirements
- Review the performance of the existing system, i.e. Infor M3, d/EPM, Sunsystem and etc; develop cost-effective solutions to ensure benefits realization.
- Leads the IT project team through system development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring project documentation completeness, and compliance of deliverables, supports in rolling out standardized company-wide systems.
- Determine required outputs and deliver complete concise reports for the various divisions using Infor software.
- Manage outsourced partner in order to deliver timely support service