Vice-President, Technology

Description de Poste

Advance the IT dexterity of business partners and present new business options and opportunities based on successful examples.

Champion collaboration between IT and the business to offer a seamless and satisfying customer experience that has a positive impact on business outcomes.

Be an evangelist, championing the use of digital and IT technologies and practices to establish a digital mindset from the top down.

Drive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and IT best practices among partners and colleagues to help establish a robust IT and digital ecosystem.

Measure key performance indicators for IT projects to ensure Client Canada is investing in the appropriate tools and resources.

Maintain external accreditation and an in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

IT Strategy and Innovation

Participate actively in the creation and refinement of Client Canada's business strategy.

Enhance and drive the current IT strategy, focusing on IT-enablement of :

• Best-in-class service levels
• Improvements in productivity

Robust cybersecurity

Work with executives and the senior leaders of the organisation to drive and optimise the internal capabilities needed to support that effort.

Drive digital innovation both externally, in Client Canada's interactions with customers, partners, and suppliers, and internally, collecting and analysing data.

Improve organisational efficiency through the use of digital technologies that enable Client Canada to compete successfully in the digital age.

Provide technology translation to help executives understand technology, by providing advice and frameworks to guide decision making and planning.

Enterprise Architecture, Systems and Infrastructure

Own the architecture and set the technology standards for the organisation, in alignment with the group's applicable IT standards, policies and procedures.

Enhance enterprise architecture and data analytic capabilities to focus on combined resources, competencies, information technology processes, and their environments to create unique competitive possibilities.

Drive the analysis and decision making around current and future Enterprise Applications needs, including ERP / Finance, Production Scheduling, Demand & Supply Planning, Warehouse Management (WMS), Industrial Maintenance, and Trade Planning systems that enable future business plans.

Drive decision making around enhancements in IT infrastructure, including datacenter / cloud hosting, networks and data storage, in line with the IT strategy and future system requirements, that enable flexibility and scale.

Work in alignment with Parent's IT Leadership to enhance Client Canada's IT architecture for scalability that will enable organic growth of the business and acquisitive growth through ease of integrating potential future acquisitions.

Continuously enhance Client Canada's data security and privacy practices, and protect the organisation by enabling the safe operation of its IT systems, on-premise & cloud hosting environments, network operations, and end user computing.

Ensure related compliance requirements are addressed, risks are mitigated, and control processes for security incidents are appropriately managed.

Drive compliance with relevant security and control standards.

Support / encourage business-led teams that combine business users, business technologists and specialised IT resources needed to focus on significant and continuous business capability improvement.

Ensure the IT Organisation enables new technology tools and platforms used by business fusion teams and provides the new IT foundations needed to support all company efforts.

Establish engagement resources and processes to provide fast and seamless access to technical and other types of expertise where and when business partners need it.

MPI ne discrimine pas sur la base de la race, de la religion, du sexe, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité ou de l'expression de genre, de l'âge, du handicap, de l'état matrimonial, ou sur la base du statut d'un individu dans tout groupe ou classe autrement protégé en vertu de la législation sur les droits de l'homme applicable.

MPI encourage les candidatures des minorités, des femmes, des personnes handicapées et de tous les autres candidats qualifiés.

L'individu jouera un rôle visible, à la fois stratégiquement et tactiquement, au sein de l'équipe de direction canadienne et sera responsable d'aider Client Canada à améliorer son architecture globale des systèmes et des technologies en fonction des besoins croissants de l'entreprise, ainsi que d'utiliser des informations numériques et des technologies innovantes (e.g. Cloud, AI) pour créer de la valeur commerciale.

Développer et maintenir des relations étroites avec l'équipe exécutive et leur fournir des informations stratégiques et des conseils en ce qui concerne l'évaluation des stratégies, des plans et des priorités de l'entreprise qui déterminent les exigences en matière de services technologiques de l'organisation.

Identifier les compétences requises pour améliorer la maturité informatique et réaliser des avantages commerciaux, ainsi que d'encourager le personnel à améliorer et à faire évoluer ses compétences et capacités.

Agir en tant qu'agent de changement culturel en soutenant les initiatives d'amélioration et de transformation informatique au cours des 3 à 5 prochaines années.

Education / Certifications

Completed post-secondary education, preferably in Business / ecommerce, Technology or a combination of equivalent professional experience and training.

A Masters or Professional level degree (e.g., MBA) is an asset.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations is an asset.

Project Management Professional (PMP) is an asset.

Consumer Good and Products industry experience is an asset.

Experience

Minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant functional experience including leading the delivery of customer focused IT strategies from conception to completion.

Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience in successfully managing people and IT vendors / suppliers.

Relevant experience in working on projects involving multiple stakeholders including working with agile and waterfall development methodologies.

Relevant experience in managing large scale IT transformations, including the associate program management, change management, and steering committee involvement.

Ability to analyse new product development opportunities and make recommendations for ongoing improvements of existing products.

Ability to create innovative strategies to improve our ability to execute faster and to secure buy-in from a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.

Experience in managing relationships with technology, operations, and business members.

Experience in assessing financial, human and customer impacts.

Our client is a major player in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector and is currently seeking a local leader for their technology division to act as an integral member of the leadership team, providing expertise regarding the technical transformation and taking ownership of the target IT operating model.

Opportunity to Build the Canadian Technology Business from the ground up.