Executive Digital & IT (Operating Company) at Imperial Logistics

About the job

Imperial is an African and European-focused provider of integrated market access and logistics solutions. With a focus on five key industries -healthcare, consumer, automotive, chemicals and industrial - we take our clients’ products to some of the fastest growing and most challenging markets in the world.

Ranked among the top 30 global logistics providers and listed on the JSE in South Africa, we seek out and leverage new technology to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions.

Through our significant African footprint and international expertise, and with the support of our 25 000 people, Imperial’s purpose is to connect Africa and the world - and to improve people’s lives with access to quality products and services.

Job Function

The incumbent will serve as the single point of contact for all D&IT requirements, demand, and solutions for the respective operating company. Accountable to ensure the delivery of the D&IT solutions to the operating company, while managing the operating company expectations, demand, solutions and building strategic partnership. This role focuses on the business value chain in designing, building , deploying and supporting Digital & IT solutions that enable value creation for end-customers and for the achievement of targeted strategic outcomes.

Responsibilities

• To lead the effort to understand the specific operating company’s needs and identify how best to meet those needs within D&IT,

• Provide the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks for the development of solutions architecture (i.e. marrying business processes to technology components/solutions that best enable them) in support of the Enterprise Architecture

• Maintain demand process for new proposals with overall responsibility for steering these proposals through the early phases of approval with well-defined value/business cases.

• Develop and enhance relationships with key stakeholders, actively manage their expectations & monitor satisfaction levels.

• Continuously research latest market and industry technology trends and provide a point of view to the operating company on helping them achieve faster time to market/lower cost base based on the latest technology

• Drive adoption and ongoing competitive use of data, information and digital technologies to solve business problems, build competitive advantage and create market differentiation.

• Aim to improve the strategic partnership between company & D&IT, customer satisfaction, effectively control and forecast operating company demand, govern and quality assure all D&IT activities delivered to the operating company.

Drive or Lead:

• Business requirements in respect of D&IT improvements within the operating company

• Monitor the current-state solutions portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.

• The creation of the IT budget for the operating company and integrate it with the overall D&IT budget.

• The performance of existing plans and D&IT systems in terms of contribution to operating company objectives, functionality, stability and value for the operating company • effort to analyse and research new and existing D&IT products, procedures, and/or workflow needs associated with operating company systems

• Effort to work with operating company to identify functional and technical requirements

• Effective D&IT decision making to achieve revenue, profitability and strategic goals in line with the operating company strategic plans

• The identification and capture of demand, creation of value cases and collation of the D&IT demand pipeline for the operating company

Qualifications

•  BSc (Hons) Computer Science or BSc (Hons) Information Systems Technology or BCom (Hons) Informatics

• ITIL Foundations

• Management Development Programme Business Relationship Management Professional (Desirable)

Skilled and requirements

• Up to 6 years of experience in managing relationships with internal business/functional customers with relevant experience in IT Business Relationship Management.