Vice President IT Applications, Software @ ExecBoardinAsia

VP of IT Applications is a business leader responsible for design, implementation, delivery, and operation of applications and products for the company. The Core Applications and Products department is responsible for foundational data systems services delivered to business functions throughout the company including operations, finance, sales, customer support, frontline delivery, human resources, learning and development, workforce management, data and analytics, as well as product vertical teams. As VP of IT, Applications you will apply your expertise in leadership, project portfolio management, and technology delivery and operations in fun, high-growth, dynamic environment.

As a frontline first organization you will rely heavily on team building, employee development, servant leadership, skills mapping and learning development to build high performing teams. The responsibilities for the VP or IT, Applications role can cover the broad spectrum of technology related disciplines including: strategic innovation, scoping and process evaluation, solution design and selection, project execution, application support operations, budget and resource planning and management, application and integration architecture, and fast-agile service delivery. You will utilize your business acumen to ensure platform strategies align with multi-year, annual and quarterly business plans and industry best cost-to-value models.

You will actively contribute to global business strategic initiatives including continuous improvement of cultural and employee development programs. In their dynamic high-growth business environment, you will lean on your deep experience in delivering complex projects across multiple business stakeholders with competing priorities, building strong and effective business partnerships, driving business process and technology transformation, and technology cost optimization while also building a positive work environment that emphasizes teamwork and collaboration to achieve common goals.

Innovation

• Key leader and contributor to the transformation of the business and IT
• Help define a multi-year strategic technology and investment roadmaps for business areas in alignment with IT cost models that deliver tangible/bottom line business value.
• Partner with business owners, PMO and steering committee groups to define, align, and deconflict priorities
• Develop an Enterprise Architect function for business applications and product platform working in close collaboration with delivery managers, IT and business leadership, and product owners within market vertical segments.
• Contribute thought leadership to technical aspects of annual planning process, ensuring application roadmaps and project cost estimates create aggressive, yet achievable plans.
• Deliver approved IT products/services with high quality, secure, on budget and exceeding business expectations.
• Actively engage in business steering committees to identify opportunities to reduce business or IT cost, increase revenue, and align with regulatory compliance requirements.
• Lead the evolution of master data throughout the company, business and IT.

Application Support

• Build talent and skills planning to keep pace with technology innovation
• Implement and maintain a highly measurable agile delivery methodology in partnership with other application and IT service delivery teams
• Ensure system stability and scalability with zero impact on business operations due to IT system issues.
• Reduces technical debt and simplify the IT application footprint to reduce complexity, cost and security
  risk
• Continuously develop, measure, and improve global offshore delivery partnerships to reduce TCO for both support innovation responsibilities
• Proactively manage application contracts renewals, drive down cost YoY.

Leadership Management

• Provide guidance and direction to leadership and direct and matrix employees to maintain a highly engaged and high performing work environment.
• Maintain a proactive performance management process including selecting, hiring, scheduling, training,
  motivating, coaching, disciplining and evaluating employees. May serve as a mentor to less senior
  individuals
• Establish and maintain positive employee and community relations
• Identify and implement performance management measures (KPIs) by individual and team that represent continuous improvement in service delivery
• Introduce process and performance improvements that stick
• Embrace and demonstrate the company vision and value, and act in alignment with the IT operating principles.