Title:  IT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MANAGER

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That’s why our employees, from around the world, choose to be a part of JTI. It is why 80% of employees feel happy working at JTI. And why JTI is recognized with various Employer of Choice certifications across different countries and regions.

So when you’re ready to choose a career you’ll love, in a company you’ll love, feel free to #JoinTheIdea. 

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IT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MANAGER 

Location: Moscow HQ

Position: permanent

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

Business: senior stakeholder management

• Act as a main contact for appropriate responsibility area on the Market for all D&IT service regardless of which partner team is accountable for the delivery. 
• Actively engaging with business stakeholders and D&IT partners to explore capability improvements or to ensure clear understanding of new capabilities requirements. Drive demand process to deliver new solutions as planned in the roadmaps.
• Improve business performance of appropriate area by focusing on value over solutions. Emphasize value when developing ideas, evaluating risk, and evolving needs that support business efficiency and effectiveness.
• Actively review technology successes in JTI and external environment, bringing to the attention of Business partners to explore the innovation within the team’s remit.  

IT: strategic portfolio management

• Responsible for full lifecycle of all team portfolio of applications, drive its standardization and efficiency
• Leads and manages identified changes & projects, and on occasions related teams, to ensure they are executed successfully. The incumbent will at all time work in accordance with JTI’s Project Management Framework, and established D&IT standards, policies and procedures, J-Sox controls, and industry best practices.
• Responsible for budget that supports appropriate stream roadmap, ensuring that the costs top Run and build IT is easily explained and that spend is in line with plan.

Team: people development, vendor management

• Lead your team of experts to become self-managing, so that they take ownership of their portfolio of applications & their KPI’s. Re-enforce JTI D&IT technology standard and processes to help the team deliver effectively and efficient day-to-day operations.
• Responsible for ensuring that 3rd-party solution providers & external resources fulfil agreed-upon commitments and contractual obligations within budgeted costs.

WE EXPECT:

• 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)
• Background of employment experience in multinational companies. Good working knowledge of business and related processes in FMCG industry
• Fluent oral and written English

• Experience in at least 2 of the following new technology trends:
     *Microsoft PowerPlatform (PowerApps, PowerBI, PowerAutomate)
     *Microsoft Data Lake and Data Warehouse technologies
     *Field Sales Solutions 
     *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

• Good financial and budgetary understanding 

• Project management (medium to large scale projects)

• Leading  by example; Working effectively in a fast-paced environment and is able to diffuse project-related conflict

• Ability to think clearly and act decisively in crisis situations; thinking and acting with a sense of urgency and clear understanding of priorities and strategic importance; highly organized

• Creativity, thinking outside the box, challenging status quo

• Ability to work with ambiguity and “connect the dots”

• Team-orientation, collaboration; ability to network and establish good connections

• Proactivity; drive to learn and keep pace with business and technology trends

• Effective communication at all levels of the organization

If you have any questions, please contact Talent Advisor - Nina Spirova