REGIONAL ICT MANAGER

Company: Ax--r--al
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

Boortmalt (the malting business of the French cooperative group AXEREAL) is currently the largest malting company globally with 3 million tonnes of malt sold throughout the world every year. Our 1000 employees spread over 5 continents are focused on producing an extensive range of high- quality malt types in order to meet the requirements of our brewing and distilling customers around the world. By using the most modern production techniques and with our far-reaching logistics capability, we are able to supply world markets both effectively and efficiently. REGIONAL ICT MANAGER United States / MINNEAPOLIS CDI BOORTMALT - Build and maintain strong relationships with regional business partners and acts as a liaison between the corporate ICT teams and the regional business.
- Manage and mentor a regional ICT team that supports the business, addresses local needs and requirements in line with corporate strategy & direction.
- Act as an advisor to business partners to shape their strategy with regard to technology and ensure they are aware of IT service offerings.
- Promote business projects and value to the ICT leaders and community.
- Define, prioritize, and manage program and project initiatives.
- Track ROI for business initiatives including cost, benefits, and risk.
- Help define and communicate new services to support business needs.
- Participate in development of regional business strategic planning and ICT strategic planning.
- Initiate, coordinate and enforce both regional and corporate policies and procedures.
- Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.
- Lead in the development of business cases requiring ICT based solutions.
- Establish regional vendor relationships and maintain a forward-looking view of vendor direction.
- Interface with vendors to understand whether vendor products and services and maintain relationships.
- Refine SLAs based on regional business need where needed.
- Maintain up-to-date awareness of industry and technology trends, and make recommendations for implementation of new/upgraded systems and technologies.
- Maintain knowledge of multiple business functions and initiatives to identify where conflicts/synergies exist between technologies and business functions.
--- You have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related field and + 5 relevant years of experience in project and ICT management in an international environment
--- You have strong analytical skills to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.
--- You demonstrate ability to distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
--- You manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicts.
--- You lead and oversee technical ICT professionals.
--- You are fluent in English.
--- Experience in food & beverage industry is a plus. We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organisation can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.
"Strive - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.
--"Care - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.
"Inspire - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitisation, becoming praised Masters of Malt.
"Explore - thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the statu quo to develop full potential.

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