IT Director

Direct the creation of value through supply chain applications using quality, performance and value-driven governance.

\u2022 Align supply chain platforms function across the business to promote and facilitate optimisation, stability, security, and efficiency.

We use elements of both the Blue Yonder and JDA product suite in this area, so it is essential that you have prior exposure to these platforms.

Key Accountabilities:

\u2022 Provide strong leadership and direction by setting clear objectives and priorities with alignment with the Supply Chain Programme function.

\u2022 Constructively partners with functional business leadership and other key stakeholders to shape strategy, identify opportunities, leverage industry trends, develop, deliver and implement value-added solutions.

\u2022 Develop delivery best practices and principles, and a culture of service excellence across Technology Services, Data & Digital, Supply Chain, and the wider organisation.

\u2022 Advise and provide direction of performance measurement metrics to support the operational objectives of existing and new supply chain platform services.

\u2022 Provide strong technical coaching while influencing global technology adoption.

\u2022 Drive and enable a strong partnership across all platform/product support and development teams within, and external to, Technology Services ensuring applications are consistent, scalable, and secure.

\u2022 Maintain and drive vendor/partner relationships at the highest levels through performance metrics and action plans.

\u2022 Act as the single point of contact and escalation point for incidents which run across supply chain platforms and own process improvement protocols post-major incidents.

\u2022 Work collaboratively across platform teams and the various platform and product owners to identify the best areas for continuous improvement.

\u2022 Meet Brambles internal governance, policy/process requirements.

\u2022 Develop an effective organisational structure in place which enables delivery of key initiatives.

\u2022 Recruit, develop, motivate, develop, and retain a technical proficient team through talent management, succession planning, and skill development.

\u2022 Develop and execute and effective risk framework for the supply chain platform.

\u2022 Successful delivery of initiative milestones on time, within budget, and to agreed success criteria.

Experience:

\u2022 Extensive experience managing or influencing technical staff, transformation, and/or significant business as usual change projects.

\u2022 Proven success in supply chain design, strategy, and defining delivery best practices and linking Business Platforms with the objectives of the Brambles business.

\u2022 Strong experience with manufacture, plant, freight carrier, and logistics business processes.

\u2022 Experience with cradle to grave support, implementation, and delivery of supply chain applications.

\u2022 Experience managing SaaS applications and partners including delivery capacity.

\u2022 Experience migrating to new and off existing supply chain platforms a plus (e.g. JDA, Blue Yonder, etc).

\u2022 Experience with custom supply chain applications supporting business requirements utilizing cloud native services (e.g. AWS, Azure).

\u2022 Strong experience leading remote, cross-functional, matrixed teams across multiple continents within a multi-partner ecosystem that deliver successful outcomes.

\u2022 Proven track record of building relationships and thought leadership influencing at senior management/executive-level within large organisations and of building and managing excellent business-wide relationships at all levels of an organisation.

\u2022 Functional understanding of application financial management, business case development, and annual budget preparation.

\u2022 Advanced interpersonal communications, with strong executive focused (and multi-audience) presentational creation and design skills.

\u2022 Able to lead and manage the establishment of a strategic, operational, and technical decision-making function (and associated processes) required to ensure that Supply Chain platforms towers are aligned to the organisation's priorities and risk appetite.

\u2022 Function as the single point of supply chain platforms contact for all integration governance elements.

\u2022 Be able to devise, develop and execute an effective supply chain platforms risk and controls framework for applicable and accountable Business Platforms areas in full collaboration with internal audit and their requirements.

\u2022 Experience planning, managing, and reporting on the execution of platform sourcing, vendor management, platform upgrades, and critical platforms SLAs and service execution and applying recommendations for corrective and preventative action, whilst identifying opportunities to reduce risk exposure

\u2022 Governance of the operational estate, ensuring appropriate change controls, Supply Chain platforms service management processes, and security controls are followed.