IT Digital Delivery Director – Corporate Functions

IT
January 11, 2024

Job Description


Job title: IT Digital Delivery Director – Corporate Functions

Company: Tate & Lyle

Job description: IT Delivery Director – Corporate Functions

London (Hybrid working)

Full time

Unlock your curiosity at Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle is on a journey of change, inspired by our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. Today, we are a global leader in sweetening, texture and fortification products that remove calories and add fibre. Customers use our innovations to create healthier, tastier food and drink for billions of consumers. Across the world, we are unlocking the curiosity and courage in our people – to foster a truly experimental culture and create a tech-enabled, more agile, risk-ready operation. Join us to play your part in growing our business and its positive impact on communities, society and the planet.

Explore the global possibilities

Based in countries across the world, our global teams are driving the transformation of the Tate & Lyle business and our culture. Joining us is your chance to accelerate change, take bold decisions and make an impact across borders – helping to shape our future at local, regional and worldwide level.

Organisational & Functional competencies:

  • Leadership of delivering approved project work efforts on time within budget and to the stated deliverables
  • Financial acumen to maintain accurate monthly forecasts against Annual Operating Plan and explain variances per business process management & forecasting schedule
  • Strategic planning of rolling 5-year roadmap for the ISIT function
  • Championing and leading the move to agile delivery
  • Partnering across the IT towers to ensure consistency of approach and migration to operations/BAU
  • Report monthly rolling forecasts with visibility to Full Year performance / opportunities
  • Plan for the relevant training and conferences for the team
  • Communicating / coordinating Infrastructure changes within the organization
  • Bring innovation and communicate with business and technology leaders, both within and outside the organization
  • Being viewed as the trusted advisor to the organization
  • Partnering with the Business Leadership Team across functions
  • Collaborate Globally with business leaders to develop business cases for new projects supporting the Digital Roadmap
  • Prepare and lead reporting and risk mitigation action planning in Steering Committees
  • Deliver assigned projects on-time, in-budget, to-scope, and with customer satisfaction
  • Understand the business needs for solutions and providing the best IT solutions
  • Understand IT needs in parallel with business needs
  • Lead product and technology validation process
  • Ensure proper documentation as well as operational instructions for all newly introduced systems and technologies are provided, smooth transition into steady state
  • Work closely with the Enterprise Architecture, Cyber and IT Operations team to ensure standards are followed

Role Competencies:

  • Experience of progressive complex systems in the manufacturing domain preferably in process industry
  • Experience in HR, Legal, Finance systems for end to end people, financial and contract management enablement
  • Experience in selecting and implementing ESG and corporate communications/corporate affairs solutions
  • Experience in managing on premise, cloud and subscription based solutions and partner ecosystems
  • Experience in core corporate functional areas such as Hire To Retire, Learning, Management and Statutory Accounting, FP&A, Business Performance Management and insights
  • Experience in Agile project and delivery management
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Team leadership and experience leading without authority / influencing stakeholders

Performance measures

  • User experience, adoption and customer satisfaction
  • Strength of internal relationships
  • Return on existing and new IT investments in partnership with recipient functions and based on objective baseline and tracking metrics KPIs
  • Assure value realisation of new and existing IT investments
  • Maintain strong relationships with strategic vendors
  • Successful delivery of assigned projects in reporting space. Success is defined as:
  • Full scope, On time, On budget, On quality, 100% customer satisfaction
  • Best in Class management of people – consistently high employee engagement, low attrition and the professional development of team members

IS/IT at Tate & Lyle

This is an exciting time to be in IT at Tate & Lyle. Our teams are enabling the transformation of our business through technology – and supporting our vision of creating healthier food choices. Manufacturing moves much faster than many sectors, so our projects operate at pace. We are looking for alternative approaches that go against the grain. It is about having the courage to take risks, fail fast and do things differently. There is huge potential to make your mark and develop technically and as an all-round professional.

What we’re looking for

We look for people who will thrive in a changing business and a culture that is evolving day by day – we value curiosity, courage and a willingness to challenge others constructively. Hungry for impact, you will be excited by delivering original and imaginative content for our fast-growing business.

Skills and experience required

  • Working with ambiguity
  • Extensive IT experience
  • Relationship bias – stakeholder engagement and management
  • Strategic thinking with operational execution mindset
  • Focus on personal development and learning
  • Proven track record of leading multiple IT teams
  • Experience delivering multiple complex systems and cloud-based ERPs in a manufacturing organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Proven supplier relationship management and negotiation experience
  • Group session facilitation
  • Support and delivery on IT merger integration and carve-out

Rewarding your contribution

As a business operating in 50 countries worldwide, we offer a global rewards package to all employees alongside a range of country-specific benefits. The global package includes a bonus scheme, 16-week Equal Parental Leave and mental health & well-being support.

This role can be based from our Marble Arch, London, UK office or our Hoffman Estates, Chicago, Illinois, US office.

Benefits include:

  • Flexible working policy
  • Competitive salary
  • Contributory pension
  • Medical insurance
  • Life assurance

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This is a pivotal time in Tate & Lyle’s the 160-year history. We hope you will join our team in Transforming Lives through the Science of Food.

Tate & Lyle believes in the strength of an inclusive workforce. We are committed to all our employees being seen and heard, and value the contributions of people with unique backgrounds, identities and experiences. We welcome applications from all.

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Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.

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Location: London

Job date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:06:11 GMT

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