Bacardi Rus is searching for an IT Business Partner.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Translate the company and functional strategy into a relevant Technology strategy for Russia
- Drive and deliver priorities:
- Identify and articulate technology needs for the Russian market
- Prioritize those needs based on the potential value added to the business
- Ensure alignment behind priorities with the leadership teams
- Operationalize priorities into projects and resources plan against them
- Manage the project portfolio to ensure on going reviews and delivery against key KPIs
- Provide input to the Product/Services organizations so that they may have all the relevant information to better serve the Region you represent
- Create a winning team spirit and build an organization for the future:
- Orchestrate the functioning of the matrix organization, pulling in the appropriate resources as needed
- Align all team-members to targets, our business strategy and create a passion for winning in the team
- Ensure implementation of learning and development programs and sustained learning for everyone in your country
- People and Team management:
- Organize and lead multi-functional projects teams, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities across the program
- Interact with project managers to provide support and guidance on the individual projects as well as to convey the important relationship of each project to the bigger picture
- Win in Technology and Digital through coaching, mentoring and providing constructive feedback to develop the Tech team
- Business and Community engagement:
- Build relationships and communicate continuously with your country and functional leadership teams: Know your business partners to represent their needs and to identify urgent needs; raise awareness and ensure your lead team members have a clear sense of what Technology is and how they can leverage our services; act as a Technology consultant when required
- Create excellent relationships with the Technology Services organizations leveraging internal and external resources
- Be the escalation point for Technology service performance issues/outages
- Go across the boundaries of the business/services lines to get people engaged when needed
- Create lasting beneficial relationships with strategic external partners and vendor management
The skills and experience needed to create your legacy:
- Fluent Russian and English
- 10+ years IT experience in multinational company
- Leadership experience within a matrix organization
- Participation in leadership role in ERP implementation or support (SAP will be an advantage)
- IT-Infrastructure projects or support experience
- An effective project manager able to partner with the business to deliver added value solutions
- Strong commercial and financial acumen
- Extensive experience in multiple technology services / programs within the company
Personal qualities:
- A nurturing line leader, mentor, and coach who can build and support high performing teams
- An agile learner that can perform well in new and ambiguous situations
- A partner that builds relationships through trust, respect, and open communication