Head - IT Applications

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning and Roadmap :
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges.
• Develop an Integrated Application Roadmap, aligning it with business outcomes and IT capabilities.
• Business Relationship Management:
• Establish strong relationships with business units, acting as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Regularly engage with business stakeholders, manage expectations, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Transformation and Innovation:
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends that can drive transformation and innovation.
• Collaborate with business units to develop and implement technology-driven initiatives driving productivity and efficiencies
• Service Delivery and Operational Management
• Serve as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert for all JADE Business applications.
• Ensuring the delivery of IT Application services meets the agreed-upon service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Managing IT Delivery projects, including planning, scheduling, and executing project tasks, managing project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Ensure application performance, availability, and security meet or exceed SLAs
• Implement and maintain ITIL best practices and processes
• Oversee the incident management process (Including major Incidents), ensuring timely resolution of issues
• Lead problem management activities to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including IT operations, infrastructure, software development, and business stakeholders, to define and deliver IT services.
• Developing and implementing service improvement plans to enhance service quality and customer satisfaction.
• Ensuring compliance with industry and regulatory standards, including data privacy, security, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• MBA degree is desirable
• Strong analytical skills to assess service performance and make data-driven recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• At least 15 years of experience leading Global IT Applications teams in Commercial, Project Delivery, Business Analytics, Finance, Procurement and HR functions
• Has worked in a Global and multi-cultural environment
• Proactive approach to drive change and improving user experience
• Experience in driving transformation and innovation. Exposure to Digital/AI ways of working preferred
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders, including executives, business leaders, and technical teams
• Excellent People Management skills, develop Talent and growth
• Up to date with current technology, industry trends, and developments

Additional Information

Head - IT Applications1 The Role We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Head of IT Applications to join our EIT team. As the Head of IT Applications, you will be responsible for driving transformation & innovation by leveraging technology, while ensuring stable day-to-day services of JADE applications at a Global Level. You will be leading a team of Application Specialists and be responsible for their growth and skills enhancement The position is based out of Pune

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