Group Head of IT - One of Asia's Most Diversified Company

Strategy

• Leading IT provision, this role is responsible for leading the strategic and operational IT planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the group
• Design and deploy a short and long-term IT Strategy to support Company's Vision, ensuring that Innovation, security, reliability, cost, and utilization are the foundation of any proposal
• Work with the senior management team to horizon scan for new technologies, provide solutions and services to the business that retain and increase competitive advantage
• Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations
• Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations
• Define and communicate corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems
• Ensure that solutions and proposals are scale-able, flexible and enable the business to operate with agility and embrace change without impacting productivity

Financial

• Identify opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development
• Manage the Group IT budget
• Manage the relationships with external suppliers, ensuring that the optimum services and supplies are procured and that contracts engaged into are fit for purpose and meet the business need
• Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal IT resources and external entities

Operational

• Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures
• Delivery of department business plan, budget and team capacity management
• Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organisational structure that supports the needs of the business
• Supervise recruitment, development, retention, and organisation of all IT staff in accordance with corporate budgetary objectives and personnel policies
• Motivate and develop team members, through range of performance management techniques
• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of IT systems performance
• Reporting to Director and Group COO