General Manager - IT - FMCG

Position : GM - IT

Location : Chennai

Position Summary:

This is the highest IT leadership role for the enterprise. This position has complete ownership of the establishment and execution of the enterprise wide IT strategy, and ensures its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success. As a member of the enterprise executive leadership team, He participates in and contributes to overall enterprise business strategy development, bringing a current knowledge and future vision of leveraging information and technology in business model design, business processes re-engineering, products and services development, and support for competitive advantage.

Age : 35 to 40 Yrs Only

Exp : 15 + yrs

Reports to: Frequently reports to CEO, CFO or COO

Primary Responsibilities:

Sets the mission and vision of the IT organization to foster business-oriented culture and mindset.

Leads the development of the IT strategy and roadmap; ensures its integration with the enterprise's strategic planning process, and the resulting business strategy and plans.

Acts as a trusted advisor, and builds and maintains relationships with other C-level executives and business unit leaders to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs, and is able to respond with agility to changing business priorities. Uses influencing and negotiation skills to create synergies across the enterprise to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of business goals.

Collaborates with executive leadership and business partners to define and execute the digital business strategy. Participates in and contributes to the assessment of external digital opportunities and threats, and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.