IT Business Lead – Enterprise App and Automation

My client is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in United States. 

Responsibilities:

Business IT Partnering 

• Establishes and maintains a relationship with key stakeholders, with a strong focus with the HR and Process Excellence functions for the enterprise application domain, and full spectrum of Snacks business functions for the automation domain
• 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.

Enterprise Applications

• Point program management for programs/projects specific to transformation in the enterprise applications domain, with a strong focus in HR and Process Excellence domains.
• 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.

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of relevant technical and business work experience.
• Good Knowledge and proven experience in HR process and HR enterprise platforms (Success Factory, 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 Prism, Power Automate, PowerApps, SharePoint).
• Proven track record in Identifying opportunities for simplifications and digitization of various workflows across the organization, especially in a legacy setup (both process and technology)
• Ability to engage with functional business leaders, as well as with delivery teams at an operational level.
• Hands-on experience leading such areas end-to-end and track record of delivering results and business value.
• Manage multiple international and/or local vendors
• Has the experience and cultural awareness required to work effectively with a regional and global team.
• Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills
• Ability to Communicate and inspire confidence with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with organizational change management preferred.
• Degree in Tech/ Information Systems from tier 1 college.
• Strong academic background.
• Can do attitude; high say-do.
• Proficient in English Language (Writing, reading & speaking).