Vacancy: Manager- IT Strategy

Manager - IT Strategy (Group IT)
(Selangor - Bandar Sunway)

Responsibilities:

• Review enterprise-wide IT strategy and ensure alignment with enterprise-wide business strategy.
• To work with respective business leaders to develop the Group IT Master Plan.
• To visualize the IT landscape over the coming 2-5 years and develop an enterprise-wide architecture supported by a portfolio of different technology.
• To cascade Group IT strategy to Business Unit ITs and IT Shared Services Center and to engage them to buy-into the concept and strategy.
• To be involved in strategic approval for key projects.
• Lead the evolution of IT as a strategic competitive advantage to the business.
• To lead the continuous improvement effort by performing industrial benchmarking, competitive analysis, and assessment initiatives to improve IT best practices.
• To assess, participate or recommend new technology initiatives in collaboration with either BU IT or IT SSC as a strategic partner.
• Drive IT operational excellence
• To understand the BU IT operations, their strengths, weaknesses and to identify opportunities to streamline the BU IT operations.
• To enhance IT processes or to design & implement best IT processes.
• To standardise IT operations across BU.
• To educate IT organization on the direction of the business and facilitate communication between BU and IT.
• Optimize vendor management
• To develop and implement strategic sourcing and vendor relationship strategies.
• To continuously seek optimal value in service from vendors; reviewing and monitoring service level agreements (SLA), performance (e.g. KPI metrics) and return-on-investment metrics and initiating contract modifications.
• To establish standards and procedures for SLA and performance evaluation.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/ ICT or IT Related Discipline.
• Min 6 to 9 years of IT work experience in multiple IT areas and 2 to 3 years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture experience in one or more specialty areas.
• Possesses relevant knowledge of Enterprise Architecture framework such as TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or Zachman Framework will be advantageous.
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Possesses good organization and multitasking skills with the passion to deliver quality work while meeting tight deadlines.

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