IT Team Leader

Philip Morris Ukraine invites for cooperation a person – Team Leader IT (HR direction) to join regional IT Corporate Deployment team. The key priority for the team is to keep close contact with People & Culture, Finance and External Affairs stakeholders in the regions to ensure end-to-end service delivery of corporate platforms.

Key teams’ responsibilities:

• enable deployment of global IT Corporate solutions in EU, EE & MEA regions
• provide insights to Platform Product Owners for future enhancements of central solutions
• support local Corporate solutions on the markets
• drive application portfolio simplification in Corporate domain

As a part of the team, you will be responsible for whole People & Culture domain in EU, EE & MEA regions and will be a key contact person for P&C Business Functions as well as for local IT teams.

The Role

Business as Usual Service Delivery:

• Drive forward the adoption and usage of P&C solutions among the user community
• Lead a team with IT Analysts across the regions
• Manage stakeholders expectations from the markets and at the regional level
• Responsible for the deployment and rollout of global P&C solutions across the regions
• Responsible for local P&C business processes evaluation, requirements anticipation and identification of areas for improvement together with the central teams (Sub Platforms) with further delivery them on the markets
• Responsible for the deployment of new functional modules in local application portfolio according to business requirements in your respective markets
• Responsible for integration between internal/external solutions
• Responsible for supplier/vendor management on the markets

About you 

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate abilities in: 

• Lead the team by example
• Capturing and communicating on progress of P&C projects execution with key stakeholders on a regular basis
• Demonstrating of good level of understanding of P&C processes
• Challenging requirements and processes in order to achieve alignment with the global strategy
• Setting clear (SMART) objectives to the team
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• Skills and knowledge
• Multiple years’ experience in IT (preferably in the FMCG or Technology environments)
• 2+ years at Leadership position in IT
• Experience in Service Management (understanding of ITIL principles)
• Experience in Project Management / Agile / SCRUM
• Experience in IT Solutions development / deployment (.NET, SQL, AWS)
• English: Upper-Intermediate and higher
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Good teamwork and collaboration
• Creative approach to problem solving
• Self-Motivation and Result Orientation
• Strategic thinking