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| Job Title: |
Senior Manger IT Strategy (Performance Improvement |
| Location: |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Posted: |
6/15/2010 |
| Starting: |
ASAP |
| Type: |
Permanent |
| Travel: |
70-90% |
| Dress Code: |
Business attire |
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Job Description:
Our client's Performance Improvement team is all about helping clients improve security and efficiency, while also reducing their costs. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and process efficiency solutions in specialty areas like finance, supply chain, IT advisory, customer, people and organization change, strategic direction, and program management.
The opportunity is now. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving clients and reaching your full potential - our client's Advisory Services group is for you.
IT Advisory competency assists our national advisory practices in planning, pursuing, delivering and managing large, complex full lifecycle initiatives along with providing experience in leading practices, methods, and resources in the space of Information Technology. Business Technology Enablement within IT Advisory supports our area offices by providing resources that can design, architect, deliver and lead such initiatives. Business Technology Enablement advises clients to understand, architect, select and implement the core applications required to run their business. Our focus will be on helping our clients to achieve following key benefits:
•An optimal applications portfolio and governance structure that aligns with IT strategy and business architecture.
•Improvement in application performance driving higher customer (internal and external) satisfaction.
•Cost reduction and better investment decisions for applications infrastructure and services.
•Reduction in complexity and improvement in agility for applications to support changing business needs and risk mitigation.
We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Manager in Business Technology Enablement. The successful Senior Manager will work with and through the client's area offices to assist clients with a variety of needs. The goal is to support our area offices as they build their individual practices and work to facilitate their clients' efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient. To meet that objective, our service offering includes, among others, the analysis of specific business requirements that will translate into sound technology architecture, infrastructure designs and vendor selection.
Responsibilities
Support Performance Improvement by providing business development assistance, and as needed, managing project teams through agreed upon phases of the ERP project governance, requirements definition, vendor selection, risk analysis, customization, testing and training.
Assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate our client in the ERP advisory market. These are shared with all market facing organizations to provide consistency and common platforms with which to go to market.
Team with client technology professionals, and/or third-party strategic alliances.
Demonstrate quality project execution and delivery by successfully monitoring project/program team economics, performance against the job arrangement and budget, and proactively adjust scope, timing, and resources as appropriate and if necessary.
Develop people by encouraging individuals to think for themselves and take responsibility for their contributions to the team. Delegate work successfully. Conduct timely performance reviews and provide performance feedback/training. Lead by example.
Generate new business opportunities by thoroughly understanding our client and its service lines and actively assessing and presenting ways to apply knowledge and services.
Develop long-term relationships and networks both internally and externally.
Manage and supervise a team of technology professionals through all phases of the technology lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion and testing.
Interact and communicate effectively with technology senior and middle management executives. |
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Must Have Skills:
•a bachelor's degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience; or a master's degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience
•a degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field (MBA or MS degree preferred)
•prior consulting experience with a blue chip consulting firm, which includes selling ideas and recommendations to executive management
•prefer approximately 6-8 years of experience working with HFM - strategy, design, configuration and implementation
•a minimum of 5 years spent in a managerial and IT/business integration role
•strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise finance with technology skills
The successful candidate must also be willing and able to travel 70-90% of a work schedule. |
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