Global Head of Common Applications
Signify
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the portfolio of global and common Business Applications at Signify that covers Idea to Market, Market to Order, Order to Cash and Common capabilities.
- Lead the Product Owners and development team to manage the lifecycles of Business Applications from inception, through deployment till decommissioning
- Align with all stakeholders including business leaders, business process owners, Digital leaders, suppliers to find the fast and most efficient way to simplify and standardize business processes and applications
- Drive the journey to simplification and standardization together with business and technology change agents including Business Process Owners and Architects
- Align with business leaders, business process and IT architects on the product roadmaps
- Review, prioritize and approve the list of IT project requests, working with his/her peers (to establish dependencies), stakeholders (to establish criticality) and finance business partners.
- Drive necessary actions required to successfully drive projects and business adaptations
- Continuously identify ways to drive productivity / efficiency improvements, eliminate wastage and simplify the application footprint
- Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management for direct reports and their organization.
- Plan resourcing needs, timely hiring to align with current / future needs of the organization and ensure performance management, training, and budgeting.
- Manage talent and develop required competencies and skills within the team to drive Digitalization agenda
- Proven track record in application lifecycle management including R&D, Manufacturing, Supply chain, Finance, Sales, Marketing in B2B, B2C and D2C environment.
- Expérience in CRM, ERP, PLM, MES application
- Expertise in managing SAP centric application stack
- Proven track record in change management, people management and competence management
- Digital thought leader
- Demonstrated ability to translate functional asks into technical outcomes & vice versa, to communicate the Digital approach & value proposition to senior stakeholders
- Strong executive presence with demonstrated C suite influencing skills
- Experience of working with companies in discrete manufacturing and understanding of different archetypes (e.g., Make To Order, Assemble to Order, Engineer to Order, Make to stock) will be added advantage.
- Experience of working with global organization, managing global stakeholders across different time zone and ability to thrive in a multicultural environment.
- Proven hands-on experience in industrialization of IT delivery, building scalable remote delivery model with combination of internal and external resources, managing cost and quality
- Good executive presence and the ability to explain complex concepts, trade-offs for fact-based decision-making, and ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary team.
- You find it difficult to adapt, and drive structure, process, and RACI in the face of continuous change and ambiguity.
- You don’t like collaborating with colleagues from different cultures and time-zones across the globe.
- You don’t feel comfortable always having to switch between business and technical audiences.
- “Hands-on” and “agile” are not among the top 5 words used to describe you.
- Do not enjoy working with global team consisting of externals and internals as well as a blended team of young talents and experienced subject matter experts.