IT Head - Infra & Digital Transformation - Manufacturing (10-15 yrs)

IT Head - Infra & Digital Transformation

Job Description:

- Design and implement IT strategies and infrastructure.

- Analyze business requirements for IT needs and systems.

- Gather/document functional requirements and translate functional needs into technical solutions.

- Ensuring the adoption of new solutions with a sharp focus on user experience, standardization, and scalability.

- Drive process improvement and transformation projects to support the simplification of processes and improvement in operational efficiencies of the paper production units.

- Leverage automation for process improvements and driving cost efficiencies.

- Statutory & Internal Audit Data Preparation as per requirement.

- Assess IT Infrastructural requirements in line with IT strategy.

- Ensure planning, design, and deployment of infrastructure requirements.

- Monitor procurement, installation, and implementation of resources.

- Performance Monitoring and Maintenance Troubleshooting of servers, desktops & printers.

- Maintain IT-Asset inventory and IT policies.

- Design, plan, augment & Implement Networking resources for LAN, and WAN across all locations.

- Understand business processes.

- Identify & evaluate business application requirements along with business and digital team.

- Manage procurement, vendor selection & relationship management, ordering, implementation and annual maintenance contract with vendors.

- Management and support.

- Conduct regular risk assessments to identify potential IT risks and vulnerabilities.

- Develop and implement risk mitigation plans to address identified risks.

- Ensure robust data security measures are in place to protect sensitive information.

- Establish and maintain an incident response plan to quickly address any IT security breaches.

- Implement reliable backup and recovery solutions to protect against data loss.

- Network design, Active Directory and Group policies, SAP Platform, backup solutions.

- Design, review, and evaluate relevant tools and technologies.

- Manage vendors.

- Manage license compliance.

- Implement general IT controls.

- Ensure support for IT / SAP / Business Applications.

- Manage IT disaster recovery and business continuity.

- Creating and overseeing the annual IT budget. This involves approving costs, reviewing contracts, and monitoring the department's expenditures.

- Hire, train, and motivate team members.

- Identification of training needs &encourage participation of each team member.

- Ensure team gets required technical training to perform their jobs.

- Conduct performance appraisals for the team.

- Ensure readiness of identified successors for key roles.