Head of Information Technology Infrastructure Services

The position is a Global, Leadership, Strategic and Operational role.
Define and execute the Zentiva IT Infrastructure Services Strategy to support Zentiva’s applications and End-Users globally, in close partnership with Key Business and IT stakeholders, including:

• Plan, Design, Build, Deploy, Operate and continuously evolve Zentiva IT Infrastructure Services
• Maintain and introduce new end-user services (communication and collaboration, digital workplace and user support)
• Infrastructure management and Operations
• Network & Access and Identity management
• Business applications integration & Global programs
• IT & Business Partnership
• Protection of Zentiva IT Infrastructure assets and compliance with Industry regulations
• Design and implement the new Zentiva IT Infrastructure Services organization, and develop its people
• Anticipate business needs and leverage emerging technologies (Cloud, Mobility, etc.) to increase agility and speed, while delivering to end-users state of the art communication, collaboration and productivity solutions.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies and IT service management best practices
• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s management, staff, customers, vendors and stakeholders with regard to Zentiva’s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.

 Additional responsibilities :

• Ensure IT Strategic alignment through a common strategic framework and a unified strategic planning process
• Ensure IT Infrastructure Services operational efficiency through advanced policies, processes, methods, tools and practices
• Ensure IT Infrastructure Services economic performance through global visibility on IT Performance, Costs, Services, Project Portfolio management
• Optimize sourcing, leverage best in class outsourcing vendors while evolving internal skillset and optimizing resource localization
• Reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) at the level of industry best in class
• Establish and execute the required enterprise-wide plans to ensure Zentiva compliance to all internal policies and external regulations applicable to IT infrastructure, including IS security policies, as well as pharmaceutical requirements.

Experience & Qualification

• Experienced leader in the field of Infrastructure Services, with excellent track record in leveraging modern technology (Cloud, Mobility etc.). Ideally, someone who has already run a CTO-like position in a mid-size company and willing to continue to grow in this area
• Strong experience working in complex multi-country, multi-cultural, matrix environments, particularly in a European context
• Proven and successful experience in IT Transformation and Information management
• Demonstrated ability to select, train, develop, manage and lead organizations
• Superior Education level
• Fluent in English
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to articulate ideas to both technical and nontechnical audiences

Key Competencies

• Experience in leading an IT department in strategy, development and support of technologies while maintaining optimized day to day business operations
• Experience in people change programs and Information Technology organizational change programs; Leading cultural change in the use of Information Technology
• Excellent leadership and staff management skills; able to motivate staff to deliver on a wide range of projects, often with competing priorities
• Proven skills in communication, management of customer expectations
• Proven track record in Senior Business Partnership management
• Capacity to positively move in a complex environment comprised of project management, process ownership, users’ expectations, IT orientations, financial constraints, and competing priorities
• Strategic thinker, capable of translating technical items into business management language. Capable to derive Company strategic directions and plans into comprehensive ITS Infrastructures plan
• Track record of managing innovation, developing and applying creative solutions and new technologies to business problems, anticipating situations and needs and finding flexible answers to new situations
• Displays and promotes the standards of behavior that are in line with the values and expectations of the organization, and demonstrates high integrity, holding himself/ herself and his/her team to high ethical standards.

Other Personal Characteristics

• A self-starter, self-motivated, self-disciplined, self-assured and performance driven
• An excellent team builder and talent developer
• Proactive, takes the initiative to make things happen.
• Confident and self-aware with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strategic as well as pragmatic, with an ability to generate trust and build alliances across business/ progress lines, functional lines and within own organization
• Ability to be an “all-rounder” on IT matters

• An opportunity to work for a successful international company
• An opportunity to broaden your knowledge and expertise in the field
• Continuous language and personal development
• An attractive compensation & benefits package

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