IT Sales & Finance Applications Senior Manager

Tasks

IT Portfolio management

•  Manage IT solutions portfolio in the Sales, Vehicle Logistics, Finance and Customer Contact Centre
• Together with key stakeholder define IT Portfolio and realization plans
• Discuss and qualify business requirement for IT
• Conceptualize solutions to be built to address business requirement. Contribute to/lead business innovation topics

Project Execution

• Driving the successful execution of IT projects, ensuring projects follow standard Daimler methodologies and processes and adhere to agreed governance and compliance requirements.
• This includes managing project scope, budget, timelines, change requests, procurement and reporting for all IT components of delivery.

Innovation Hub

• Explore technological opportunities across industries and evaluate fitment into MB India Complete Proof of Concepts to evaluate the business value of innovation ideas

IT Application Landscape Management & Operations

• Ensure smooth operations of existing IT landscape
• Responsible for governance & cost management of existing IT landscape
• Ensure integrity of overall landscape while bringing in new application

Vendor & Communication Management

• Tracking and managing multiple vendors (including internal Daimler teams) to ensure delivery quality is as expected, on time and on cost
• Managing communication & expectation management of teams such as business unit, senior management, IT staff and vendor employees.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduation/Post-Graduation in Business or IT Qualification.
• Experience: 8+ years of total work experience and 3+ year of relevant experience
• Knowledge of Retail Sales or Financial related applications
• Knowledge of Technologies – SAP and Open Source Applications
• Knowledge in People Management and IT Process
• Good communication skills and persuasiveness
• Focus on processes, systems and strategies
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across business, regional and HQ
• Experience of IT in Automotive Industry
• Awareness of application security & data protection topics