- Strategic Planning: Developing and implementing IT strategies that emphasize digital transformation and innovation towards value proposition, based on business objectives, challenges and opportunities, to enhance the organization's competitiveness, agility and efficiency.
- Team Leadership: Leading and engaging IT teams to support our business operation and drive innovation, ensuring they have the capabilities and resources needed for successful transformation initiatives.
- Technology Management: Overseeing the selection, deployment and ongoing optimization of technologies that deliver value to our company, aligned with global IT landscape and governance.
- Change Management: Implementing effective change management strategies to ensure that digital transformation initiatives are smoothly adopted across the organization. This includes communication, training, and fostering a culture of adaptability and innovation.
- Budget Management: Managing the IT budget with a focus on allocating resources to support digital transformation initiatives and ensuring a strong return on investment. Ensures that the IT cost model for the cluster is accurate and transparent.
- Stakeholder Management: building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including business leaders, vendors, and customers, to ensure IT initiatives support their needs and expectations.
- Extensive experience of working in IT and FMCG business/industry
- Experience in an advisory role in Information Systems to the business leadership function
- Tech Passion: An insatiable love for technology and its transformative power.
- Experience: Proven leadership with understanding in business process management, with an ability to translates business needs into IT solution and a track record of shaping IT success.
- Strategic Mindset: A visionary who can turn ideas into reality.
- Team Building: Ability to nurture and inspire empowered team to greatness and growth.
- Innovation Drive: Always seeking the next big thing in tech.
- Cyber Savvy: Expertise in safeguarding digital assets.
- Business Acumen: Understanding of how technology can drive business growth.
- Experience in a multi-cultural international organization is preferred
Cluster IT Manager UK - Banbury, United Kingdom - JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS
Description
Company Description
Who we are?
JDE Peet's is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, with local roots dating back to 1753, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands, including L'OR, Peet's, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
What's it like to work at JDE Peet's?
We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet's, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea.
We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth. We've worked hard to build an open, collaborative environment where you can approach anyone and be heard.
At JDE Peet's, we believe it's amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We also believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live your life, or how you enjoy your coffee or tea, you can fulfil your ambitions and contribute to our success.
When you grow, we grow, and coffee & tea grows.
Job Description
Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming businesses through the limitless power of technology? Do you thrive on the endless possibilities that the digital realm offers? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you
The exponential growth of technology has made IT one of the critical success factors for every business function within JDE. To enable IT as a competitive advantage, we are transforming our IT department towards a true technology business partner. The department of Global Information Services (GIS), administers this in three expertise area's: Infrastructure and Shared Platforms, Strategy and Planning and Business Solutions.
As the Cluster IT Manager, you will be the driving force behind our technological evolution. Your mission: to turn the "Art of Possible" into reality. You will lead a team of tech enthusiasts, create IT strategies based on business goals and strategy as well, and ensure our IT is second to none. You also will be the single point of contact for the cluster, representing Global Information Services towards business leadership and local stakeholders, as well as is the champion of the cluster business within GIS, accountable for end-to-end IT engagement, business technology strategy development, service management, risk management and relationship management towards our business functions.
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Qualifications
Working in the world's largest pure-play coffee and tea company means big ambitions, and big ambition means big responsibility. Working at JDE Peet's is hands-on, giving you an opportunity to leave your mark.
We are a fast-paced company on a mission. Our focus demands high-energy people who think fast and act quickly. If you have the courage and confidence to venture into new cultures & territories, and you're brimming with an entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to succeed, you'll fit right in at JDE Peet's.
For this role as a Cluster IT Manager UK&I, we're looking for someone who has the following skills and experience: