Regional IT Director, Apac

**Location**:
**Regional Head Office, Singapore**

**Report To**:
**APAC Regional Director of Strategy and Transformation**

**Overall job purpose**:
**provide a brief summary of the role**

**This role plays a key role to lead and optimise Inchcape’s Technology execution strategy to deliver long term commercial growth for the region. Works closely with the Director of Transformation & Performance to develop the technology roadmap for the region.**

**As a member of the Global Commercial Leadership Team and will work closely with the global Platforms and Digital Delivery Centres to deliver quality and cost-effective services that are compliant with group standards.**

**The scope of technology solutions includes Solution Delivery, ERP Implementations, Security, Service Delivery and infrastructure.**

**Main duties and responsibilities**:
**Outline key responsibilities of role, reporting relationships, budgetary responsibilities etc. Please give as full a description of the role as possible.**
- **Own the Technology roadmap for the APAC region that is aligned with Distribution Excellence roadmap.**
- **Working closely with the APAC Regional Transformation Director and the Global Platform Leaders deliver a class leading digital experience for customers, OEMs, and staff through the adoption of DXP, DAP, ERP, and DMS.**
- **Provide technology sponsorship and leadership for new initiatives within the APAC region e.g. Vehicle Lifecycle Services programmes, GBS, PeopleHub etc.**
- **Working closely with the Platform leaders to deliver highly efficient technology operations globally and in local markets that give appropriate service levels.**
- **Working closely with the Group CISO to ensure the APAC region achieves the necessary levels for cyber security, disaster recovery, and business continuity.**
- **Working closely with the M&A team and plays a strong role in due diligence, developing the value creation plan, and post-merger integration. Own the technology benefits case of each deal.**
- **Own and continually optimise the APAC Technology budget.**
- **Make an active contribution as part of the global Commercial Leadership Team**
- **Ensure the APAC region remains compliant with all Inchcape policies, standards, and controls.**
- **Build an efficient and effective IT function in the region across all markets. Lead and develop the required technical skills in the regional Technology team.**

**‘Key result areas’/performance expectations**:
**The minimum expectations of the role, targets and standards**
- The business environment in which the Regional Technology Director will operate is dynamic including:

- Business model evolution for Inchcape and OEMs
- Digital challenges
- Competitive challenges
- Changing customer expectations
- M&A
- Increasing cyber security threats
- Legislative changes
- Political changes

**He/she must demonstrate gr**eat adaptability, good influencing and negotiating skills, comfortable delivering in a matrix environment with high levels of ambiguity**

**Levels of authority**:
**reporting line above & below)**

**Reports to APAC Regional Director of Strategy and Transformation**

**Direct reports include**:

- **Solution Delivery Lead**:

- **Service Delivery Lead**:

- **Security Lead**:

- **Market Heads of IT**:

- **M&A Integration Managers**

**Key Stakeholders**

**On-going relationships/third parties**

**APAC Executive Team**

**Global Platform Leaders**

**Regional Transformation teams e.g. DE, Finance**

**Digital Delivery Centres**

**Skills and Attributes**
- Strong interpersonal skills and team player
- High level of personal integrity
- Builds strong and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Change management skills
- Builds business knowledge and business process understanding
- Highly commercial and innovative thinking
- Challenges the status quo, comfort with conflict
- Inquisitive, comfort with ambiguity
- Tenacious
- Resilient
- Explain complex concepts simply
- Able to engage confidently at levels of the organisation
- Experience
- Worked in an international company with a global technology delivery model
- Worked within the APAC region with multi country responsibility
- Experience of full lifecycle M&A including leading the technology workstreams
- Experience of delivering B2B and B2C digital transformation
- Experience of regionalising a technology delivery team