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Assistant Vice President, IT Luxury Division Systems Officer
L'Oréal
New York, NY, United States
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L'Oreal USA, Assistant Vice President, IT Luxury Division Systems Officer
Title: Assistant Vice President, Division Systems Officer (DSO)
Professional Domain: Information Technology
Specialization:Governance & Management
Mission:
You will owns the Luxury division’s end-to-end global IT strategy, roadmap definition and governance in alignment with strategic agenda and priorities of the respective business functions; effectively manage the business demand for application capabilities at all levels. Provide overall leadership and ensures alignment across multiple delivery teams; Drive the innovation agenda and the performance of the services delivered. Ensure value creation and effectiveness of IT spend for the respective Division.
Key Accountabilities:
Strategy & Roadmap Definition:
• Engage business and IT leaders at L'Oréal USA, Division and Brands level to define requirements, priorities and ensure alignment with business vision and key strategies of the Division.
• Ensure Business vision within IT corporate organization, in order to guarantee business value creation
• Develop IT master plan and translate it into an annual plan with milestones and IT budget
• Develop business cases to relevant stakeholders addressing political, financial, and organizational interests
• Define 3 years roadmap & programs to meet current and future needs of the Division
• Ensure alignment of Division’s vision, processes and capabilities with L'Oréal USA Application Strategy and architecture principles
• Keep abreast of the emerging trends and technologies, evaluate their business value, applicability and utility to the business
• Drive the adoption of internal and external best practices and innovation opportunities
Division Architecture Blueprint:
• Partner with the Enterprise Architecture team to develop the overall architecture roadmap to deliver the future state for the Division
• Own and maintain the capability and solution maps across all brands and functions within the Division
• Pro-actively manage the application portfolio and ensure standardization and consolidation of applications towards common solutions and platforms
• Ensure technology watch to identify new trends and opportunities in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and Innovation teams
Demand Management & Governance:
• Act as a proactive business partner: actively listen to internal/ external customers, articulates and clarifies /translate their needs into IT implications and evaluate and challenge the customers’ demands to ensure alignment with the defined strategy
• Actively shape, review, plan, and prioritize Business demand for IT across the brands in the Division
• Own and manage the overall financial investment plan for the Division and ensure value creation for the business
• Own and Facilitate the IT/Business global governance
• Ensure timely communication to relevant stakeholders in the business and IT communities.
Service Performance Supervision:
• Accountable for the solution delivery of IT capabilities over its entire lifecycle from concept to retirement
• Pro-actively manage business expectations and monitor their customer satisfaction levels through relevant service metrics
• Lead service improvement initiatives ensuring the continuous improvement of end to end service and customer satisfaction
• Benchmark costs/prices/performance with external market and across the different entities of the group
• Communicate service charging and service performance elements as per SLAs
• Lead the Customer advocacy role of business stakeholders within IT teams.
Key Professional Skills:
• Entrepreneurship: Demonstrate ability of innovative thinking, appreciating and propose new ideas and solutions, while keeping a pragmatic eye
• Master an understanding of the L'Oréal Business: Ability to understand overall business strategy, long term user/ customer needs and translate into IT Strategy
• Decode and influence: Ability to interact effectively, demonstrate influence and conciliation leading others to embrace his/her opinion and reach a positive, accepted closure to a conflict
• Ability to manage complexity/ Acts with transversal management skills
• Enable cooperation and collaboration: Ability develop collaborative/cooperative working, working in a team with members from different expertise, places and cultures to achieve collective goals
• Ability to lead change in business on IT taking into account structural and cultural issues and monitoring the impact, taking any required remedial action and refining approach
• Ability to identify internal and external benchmark to compare the internal performance with industry best practices
• Understand L'Oréal systems and technology: Strong knowledge of key existing IT (apps and Infra) components
• Knowledge of the IT portfolio components and their individual roadmaps
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