1. Service Ownership
- Serve as the accountable owner for the performance, stability, and availability of assigned operational applications.
- Maintain the service strategy and roadmap, aligned with IT architecture standards and business operational goals working closely with the Operations BPO and BPA.
- Ensure applications are compliant with security, regulatory, and operational risk requirements.
2. Service Performance & Operations
- Monitor application health, availability, and performance; proactively address issues to minimize downtime.
- Coordinate with IT operations, support teams, and vendors for incident and problem resolution.
- Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and ensure permanent solutions are implemented.
3. Business Relationship Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for business functions such as supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics through the Business Process Management structure of the Operations BPO and BPAs.
- Understand operational business processes and translate them into IT service requirements and enhancements.
- Collaborate with business users to drive process improvements through technology.
4. Change & Release Management
- Manage application lifecycle activities such as upgrades, patching, integration, and decommissioning.
- Ensure structured change control processes are followed to minimize risk to operations.
- Plan and execute release deployments with minimal business disruption.
5. Vendor & Financial Management
- Manage vendor relationships for application support and licenses.
- Track and manage budgets for application maintenance, enhancements, and support.
- Ensure vendor performance aligns with SLAs and business expectations.
6. Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to enhance system efficiency, user experience, and automation.
- Promote best practices in service management (ITIL) and leverage analytics to drive decisions.
- Lead or support digital transformation initiatives within operations.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in IT Operations projects and service management, with a focus on operational or enterprise systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle ERP, Infor, MES, WMS).
- Solid understanding of business operations, such as supply chain, manufacturing, or logistics.
- Experienced in translating demand from Idea to requirements that are used as a basis for workload estimation and (detailed) solution design
- Proven Project Management skills, leading small to medium size projects and familiar with common project methodologies (Agile, Prince II)
- Experience in ITIL-based service delivery, incident/problem/change management.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management skills.
- Understanding of integration platforms (e.g., Mulesoft, Dell Boomi) and cloud environments (Azure, AWS)
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Experienced in translating demand from Idea to requirements that are used as a basis for workload estimation and (detailed) solution design
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Proven Project Management skills, leading small to medium size projects and familiar with common project methodologies (Agile, Prince II)