Head of IT - Roodepoort Head Office at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

• The successful candidate will be responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership in developing and implementing information technology initiatives aligned to the business strategy.

Requirements    

• Degree: IT related 
• Business English: Fluent
• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level. 
• Experience in working with Executives and senior management.
• People management experience  
• Computer literacy (Advanced) 

Competencies    

• Coach and develop people. 
• Ability to influence. 
• Proactive and action orientated. 
• Solves problems through effective decision making. 
• Clear and sound reasoning ability 
• Achieves Results Effectively 
• Build high performing teams 
• Business acumen 
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective. 
• Interpersonal effectiveness 
• Managing people for performance 
• Brings a strategic contribution. 
• Customer orientated. 
• Communicates effectively. 
• Application of financial principles and practices 
• Ability to negotiate. 
• Ability to apply numerical principles. 
• Apply expertise and technology. 

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Develop and execute Information Technology strategy that is linked to business strategy. 
• Plan an IT strategy that is aligned to the business strategy.
• Formulate and maintain a detailed 5 year IT strategy that covers the investments required for IT applications, technology and cyber security projects to expand IT capabilities, improve support to business units, reduce operating costs, eliminate technical debt and reduce cyber security vulnerabilities.
• Determine the current and future state of all IT systems and technologies by defining a 5 year implementation roadmap clearly indicating major investments required, reduction of technical debt and reduction in IT cyber vulnerabilities
• Lead and guide the organisation to use technology to increase revenue, reduce operating costs and simplify daily operations.
• Focus on future technologies relevant to a FMCG, diary, food and branded consumer goods organisation and maintain healthy relationships with vendors that seek to partner with Clover to enable these technologies.

Support the business and lead through technology innovation. 

• Identify business problems where applying current (and future) technology solutions that will improve revenue, reduce costs, simplify and automate processes to deliver better financial results to the organisation. This must be coupled with a simplicationof the IT architecture; refocus IT strategy to cloud, digital and AI technologies whilst maximising the use of existing software licenses and services. 
• Deliver a project execution process that will prioritisebusiness and IT projects delivery within the current resource constraints supplemented by capabilities of IT service providers without compromising on daily operational support to the business (applications support, IT Service Desk, end user support, server and network operations) 
• Drive Continuous focus on IT capex and operating budgets to maximiseutilisation, reduce costs where possible, derive greater value from vendor re-negotiations and contract management. 
• Assist and guide IT procurement related to new systems and technologies even when initiated from business units.
• Continuous improvements to IT operations and systems efficiency to increase system uptime in the most cost-effective manner.

Lead IT governance related to purchasing, implementation and operations.  

• Lead IT efforts related to tenders issued and responded to covering RFIs (Request for Information) and RFPs (Request for Proposals)
• Manage the IT capital and operational expenditure to deliver more "bang for the buck" focusing on efficient spend, delivering more with less through commercial negotiations with vendors
• Establish the Technology Steering Committee - an enterprise wide forum to ensure that all technology related purchases (including services) are pre-approved before contractual commitment by IT or business units.
• Ensure all required IT policies, standards and procedures are documented, reviewed appropriately, available online, communicated to all relevant stakeholders and adhered to. Includes the establishment and active participation of the required IT change control, operations, project and management forums with strict adherence to the SDLC (Systems Development Lifecycle) which must be documented, briefed to all IT stakeholders and adhered to so that changes are effectively planned, reported on, tested, logged, implemented and tracked for audit compliance.
• Ensure IT compliance to all contractual obligations, legislative and regulatory laws and agreed policies and standards. Focus on resolution of IT audit findings raised through internal and external audits, driving IT cyber security initiatives to not only reduce IT risk, reduce IT vulnerabilities but also to enable cheaper cyber security insurance premiums.
• Effective management of all IT contracts to ensure annual budgets are accurate, annual spend is within agreed budgets, vendor agreements are in place and renewed as required.
• Effective management (identification and reduction) of IT risks, audit findings, cyber security vulnerabilities within agreed timelines supported by periodic testing of IT disaster recovery plans.

People Management 

• Develop and appropriate IT organisational team structure that supports the needs of the business, taking cognisance of resource constraints, key person dependencies, career planning and succession planning. 
• Creating high performance teams, a motivating team environment with strong D level managers that manage their budgets, cost centres and vendors.
• Provide effective leadership, setting clear performance KPIs (measurable) and assist team members to reach those KPIs or take appropriate action where targets are not met. 

Closing Date    
2023/08/20