Job Description

Job Purpose:

Provides overall direction, guidance and definition for IT and Business leadership to effectively support the global corporate business strategy. Interfaces across several global business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future global projects. Responsible for conception of global solutions, building consensus and the selling and execution of such solutions while ensuring that the design and integration of proposed solutions lead to the development and growth of the business through effective use of technology

Responsibilities:

* Facilitates discussions and coaches managers on issues that relate to new global consideration and opportunities
* Understands global agendas and researches, analyzes, designs, proposes, and delivers solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies
* Interfaces globally with the business to develop creative, pragmatic, discreet, economic, effective and flexible processes and technology approaches.
* Brings analytic, information technology, problem solving, process design, and negotiation skills to the benefit of the business units, to aid the development of process and application system concepts, needs and opportunities.
* Responsible for actionable strategies to solve global business problems or seize new opportunities, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining future projects.
* Facilitates the development and refinement of global business processes and business systems engineering across the enterprise
* Develops and maintains credibility and effective working relations globally with customers and IT personnel in a way that demonstrates an understanding of business problems, as well as IT strategies, issues, and priorities.
* Informs and advises on information systems global technologies' functionality, costs, benefits and implementation requirements, and provides services such as facilitating priority setting and brokering contracts on behalf of customers.
* Influences and drives IT global strategic decisions as they relate to an effective global vision of IT architecture and platform direction

Knowledge Skills and Experience

* Preferred Educational:
* Master Degree preferred MBA), Bachelor required
* Seven years of experience is required in either IT business systems analysis in corporate environments, or business unit experience with intense involvement to IT development and implementation of large-scale systems.
* Previous experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement is expected.
* Outstanding facilitation ability and success gathering organizational consensus, requiring a solid professional demeanour, positive attitude, business credibility and great interpersonal style.
* General industry knowledge of technology vendors, applications and trends
* Requires in-depth knowledge of quantitative and business-plan initiatives
* Understands cross cultural demands associated with global executive management assignments.
* Advanced understanding of technical processes, environments, problems and solutions as they relate to the organization's current and future strategic and operating environment.
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail

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Cultural Competency Requirements:

* Within Tech Data diversity is one of our fundamental shared values. We are a multi-cultural environment and we pride ourselves on being a welcoming place of work where we celebrate inclusion and champion people from a multitude of backgrounds.

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