Business Analytics and Application Manager (Project Managing/Support/Design) - Hiring Urgently

D&IT Solutions Manager

This role is responsible for maintaining & supporting all or a proportion of the Geographically Distributed (Virtual) team portfolio of applications, working with colleagues to standardize and drive efficiency. Incumbent should broaden their technical and delivery skills using tools at their disposal, including but not limited to Freedom within a Framework, Data management, ERP and Sales solutions. 

The role is responsible for ensuring that 3rd-party solution providers & external resources fulfil agreed-upon commitments and contractual obligations within budgeted costs. This role may lead projects to localize and roll out of centralized systems, including the detailed planning and execution of the project/changes, data migration, external resources and go-live.

Capability Management identification and enhancement

• Collaborate with business to identify improvements for existing solutions
• Work to find existing solution in JTI that have the required capabilities
• Help develop capabilities delivered by global teams and within regional/local solutions. 

Rollout of Central systems and Market Mile 

• Under direction of the RPD embrace and learn steps and effort required to rollout a system to more than one market in the region. 
• Work with other regions who are rolling out systems ahead of your region to gain knowledge and to help deliver the solution faster in your region. 

Freedom within a Framework

• Use low code tools provided in JTI environment to augment and deliver simple and short-term capabilities.
• Make sure you are aware of the tools ever increasing functionality, how these tools work and leverage and communicate through APIs in JTI key systems to deliver data transfer or better UX experience.

Service Delivery Management & Business Continuity / Security

• This role ensures the company's business community is provided with appropriate support and training/development in business systems, software and hardware in order to make effective and efficient usage of systems and resources and enable users to achieve business goals. These solutions may be internally or externally provided.   
• This role is responsible for ensuring that all shared D&IT applications / D&IT solutions under the incumbent portfolio are stable, reliable and compliant to the legislation (e.g. payroll, data sources and data integrity, etc) in the region.  

Innovation

• Work with markets teams to foster ideas and understand new trends and how they could challenge or provide an opportunity to change the business model or drive efficiencies into operation.

Geographically Distributed teamwork, & Operations.

• This role will be part for a geographically distributed teams that will be responsible for a function within the region (M&S, Finance, Data, etc). This role manages the application portfolio (or part of it) of that function including the operational excellence (incident management, maintenance, enhancement and change request, problems, etc) as well as managing demands and accountable for the execution of projects of that specific function.
• You may at times and as decided by the Regional Digital & IT lead be seconded to the RPD to assist or run project on behalf of the region. 
• This role may lead projects to localize and roll out of centralized systems, including the detailed planning and execution of the project/changes, data migration, external resources and go-live.
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D&IT Governance

• Responsible for respective D&IT budgets for managed applications and services the Region. Responsible for planning of the AP/SP and LE processes and delivering financial commitments with clarity on how budget is used to run existing services, the cost of transformation/change and efficiency gained by the changes.  Optimize, control and reduce costs when possible, to improve regional budget efficiency and profitability. 
• Drive cost avoidance through the alignment as much as possible to corporate application standards (e.g. SAP for ERP, TME for the sales force, SAP HR for personnel master data), also seeking to re-use existing business application solutions across the group and leverage the D&IT Application Portfolio.

Who are we looking for?

• 3+ years’ experience in the IT discipline with 1+ of those years in IT Management of Business Solutions/ Application teams (including people management where relevant)
• Preferred background of employment experience in multinational companies.
• Good working knowledge of business and related processes in FMCG or Telco industry

Functional
- Experience in at least 2 of the following new technology trends:   

• Microsoft PowerPlatform (PowerApps, PowerBI, PowerAutomate)
• Microsoft Data Lake and Data Warehouse technologies
• Online Sales, Loyalty and payment systems
• Business requirements analysis & process documentation 
• Solutions design proposal and architecture (business applications and D&IT infrastructure), including but not limited to application design methodology (including Agile methodology), interface design, capacity planning, scalability