IT Business Partner at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose
We are looking for an IT Business Partner to oversee and manage all services required by the retail business unit within our organisation. The retail business is a sales unit that includes Supa Quick and Bridgestone Fitment Centres. The role will report directly to the Head of IT but have a dotted line reporting structure to the both retail business heads. The role will not directly manage others but will make use of internal IT departments and external consultants when required and will need to be able to manage these resources to deliver output.

Main duties:

• Define IT Strategy and lead projects
• Build Business Cases, obtain funding approval for them and work with IT and business to resource for projects
• OPEX budget creation, forecasting and tracking

Required skills and experience:

• Business Partner/Relationship Management experience as part of a multi business company global business.
• Ability to communicate complex problems to non-IT colleagues in a non-technical and simplified manner and translate this back to technical specialists.
• Ability to build and maintain key business relationships with internal and external business stakeholders.

Required capabilities:

• Good Communicator
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate to different levels of the organization, with both technical and non- technical people.
• Have a Can-Do mentality.

Education:

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Degree/ National Diploma in IT or related field

Experience:

• Minimum of 2-3 Years’ experience in IT or related field
• Understanding and knowledge of digital concepts,
• MS Teams Knowledge
• Experience with Network Monitoring tools
• Process Mapping
• Fair knowledge of key concepts within the digital sphere
• Ability to understand new technologies and the application of the technology
• Fair understanding and knowledge of websites and navigation

Leadership Competencies:

• Business Acumen
• Drives accountability and high performance
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Customer focus and Customer Service orientation/mindset
• Customer relations skills
• Project management and planning skills
• Communication skills