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Salary: R 850 000 - R 879 000pa ctc

Full-Time position in the Information Technology sector in Cape Town South Africa
Posted by: Armstrong Appointments on 21-Aug-2012


N.B. Please note this is an opportunity for South African citizens who are EE/AA candidates

A great opportunity exists for an IT Business Partner in Cape Town with a large organisation. To Partner the Supply Chain business unit and effectively lead a team that will provide and maintain solutions and systems that deliver business capabilities to produce measurable business value and competitive advantage

Qualifications
• IT, BSc or Business qualification at graduate level

Experience/Criteria
Technical and Functional
•    8-10 years relevant experience in IT or business consulting industry
•    Previous experience in IT Supply Chain will be advantageous
•    Knowledge of Supply Chain Planning and technology
•    Architecture
•    Analysis
•    Design
•    Development
•    Testing
•    Administration
•    Communication Management
•    Risk and Compliance Management
•    Sustainability Management
•    Service

Leadership Competencies
Self
•    Understand themselves and the impact they have on the people they interact with and the organisation culture and
•    Adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Lead
•    Plays a leading role in driving sustainable transformational initiatives at an operational level
•    Is recognised by their leadership, peers and reports as competent and can hold their own with leaders in their field.

Interact
•    Builds strong networks and strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and
•    Engages and connects people to enable delivery of BU operating plan.

Business
•    Are consistent in their decision making and owns the consequences thereof due to strong business understanding and commercial knowledge.
•    Demonstrates attention to detail and reacts to commercial and customer issues within their operation.

Manage
•    Effectively manages people to execute BU operating plan.
•    Manage delivery in a positive and consistent way that creates challenging growth experience.

Main Job Function
•    Partner with business to define the BU roadmap and drive delivery of in support of that roadmap
•    Build and nurture effective relationships with business counterparts and suppliers 
    o Own the relationship with the business unit – actively manage the relationship and expectations to ensure customer satisfaction
•    Assure service delivery within business unit: 
    o Ensure that business service requirements are defined and actively managed 
    o Act as an escalation point for any service issues within business unit
•    Provide input into IT strategy and operating plan as well as setting aligned goals for subordinates to deliver these
•    Provide input into IT investment (capex, opex, devex, human resources and skills development) relating to business initiatives (new applications and management of existing applications) and operating plans and ensure that projects and operating plans are delivered within approved budgets
•    Analyse and give input with regard to IT component of business strategies and opportunities
•    Manage decentralised applications within own business unit
•    Lead a diverse, cross functional, (virtual) team to effectively deliver strategy and operating plans within time and on budget
•    Identify and analyse business requirements for their IT impact (including benchmarking, feasibility and assessment) and provide input into the prioritization process
•    Provide optimal solutions to meet business requirements and enable new business capabilities: 
    o Identify optimal solutions to meet business requirements/ opportunities 
    o Acquire application software in line with architecture and technology guidelines to meet business requirements/ opportunities 
    o Ensure the effective development and installation of solutions together with applications and technology competencies to meet business requirements and opportunities 
    o Driving IT delivery of programmes and projects (including business case) within time and on budget
•    Undertake quality assurance reviews of projects (including delivery of the business case)
•    Identify IT and related business risks (Including resourcing) across areas of responsibility and develop strategies for risk management and mitigation
•    Ensure that effective relationships are developed with business counterparts and suppliers and act as an escalation point for unresolved issues

A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies

Attention
Beverley Benatar

Job Code
BBITBP

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