Country IT-Digital Manager

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The Role: Country IT-Digital Manager

The Country IT manager is part of EIT organization and assigned to particular global/horizontal function (such as FiSS, CCC, GSC) and/or a country in cluster (Japan).

The assigned scope is defined as "business"

What will you do?

Own the portfolio of demand & projects


* Initiate and manage demand process in Demand Portal (from Draft to DM1 approval)


* Liaise with internal Digital teams (AS, OS, Finance) to progress demand in DP


* Hand-over demand to project/delivery team after "DM1 approval" status is achieved


* Monitor & follow progress of project/change delivery


* Deliverables:
+ Update progress of demand in DP at least once a week
+ Followup/escalate if project/change is not as per expectations

Define & maintain the IT landscape & roadmap


* Prepare & maintain the inventory of infrastructure & applications used by the business (global, regional, local)


* Perform periodic infrastructure & application review (collaborate with OS & AS as required)


* Identify risks/areas of improvement & initiate EIT demand or support process


* Deliverables:
+ Inventory list of infrastructure & applications
+ Infrastructure & Application review report (at least yearly once, preferably twice)

Establish an appropriate & effective governance model


* Identify key business teams/stakeholders & seek for a nominee to formal & regular interactions


* Setup interaction mechanism & reviews with the nominee


* Be proactive in approaching business


* Develop as trusted partner to CP (Cluster President), CFO, senior stakeholders within the country


* Deliverables:
+ Governance model document
+ Minutes of meetings/follow-up tracker

Define & maintain the IT budget


* Perform annual budgeting exercise (in collaboration with EIT Finance)


* Maintain IT budget consistency based on actual, ongoing changes & business evolution


* Deliverables:
+ Annual IT budget baseline
+ Updates to baseline IT budget

Ensure performance of standard EIT operations (service & support)


* Follow up with EIT teams to ensure healthy status of support per...