Global IT Manager Business Partner - Commercial

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

 

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 22 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 22 countries, and employs approximately 4,000 people.

 

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

 

Campari Group OneIT context

Campari Group IT department is at a key development stage moving from a back-office function to pivot into a business partnering function, leading the technology agenda across the business with the objective to drive our business growth for the years to come.  This represents an extremely exciting time to join Campari IT and Campari Group. Campari IT function is organized around Global & Regional/Local layers, the Enterprise Architecture & Technology team, the Global Service Delivery Team and five Center of Expertise (CoE) – Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance & HR & Legal, Governance & PMO, Enterprise Analytics and Data Science.

 

The IT CoE competency centers (CoE-Center of Expertise) are accountable for the development of an IT strategy for their functional area aligned to the overall Campari business objectives and requirements for business capabilities.

The Campari Group CoE - Sales & Marketing strives to achieve measurable value from our relationship with our global business stakeholders. We understand their demand and support them in realizing their goals. We promote IT in the business and we prepare for the future by bringing relevant innovative solutions to achieve our joint strategic goals.

 

General Description of the Role

The Global IT Business Partner - Sales & Commercial is a member of the CoE Sales & Marketing dedicated to the Sales & commercial functional area.  This role works closely with the Business to identify, design, implement and drive the adoption of technology solutions across the internal and external environments of our consumers and customers globally.  The role is a key component of the Campari Group OneIT organization, cooperating daily with Global, Regional and Local IT team members.  This role reports to the Global IT Commercial Director.

 

The role is focused on managing a portfolio of technology capabilities to support the business objectives for commercial function, ensuring that this portfolio drives business value, is delivered in through project excellence and brings innovative best practices and new technologies.

• Business partnership with key global and market sales stakeholders to deliver technology solutions supporting the commercial objectives.
• Management of the global sales technology product portfolio and roadmap, covering specifically in the near-term Trade Promotion and OTC processes, along as ground SAP S/4 Hana SD module functinalities.
• Supports the business value realisation from technology implemetation and adoption.
• Supports process design and promotes best-practice adoption
• Defines, develops, owns and executes a local framework to elevate Campari Group  market position with technology, entreprenuers, consumers, customers, and non-compete peers.
• Advicates and communicates the innovations as it relates to technology across the sales organisations.

 

Key Responsibilities and Activities

Business Value Realization

• Acts as IT Business Partner for the Commercial area, contributing, prioritizing, and supporting in the definition of functional and technical solutions coming from new requirements, by developing maintaining, and fostering knowledge of functional business processes across functions.
• Proactively engages key global stakeholders to gather business and functional needs and to provide support and new ideas on business process design and enhancements.
• Contributes to business cases definition, in collaboration with Business Stakeholders, identifying the most appropraite set of solutions to support the business capabilities.
• Leads fit-gap analysis between application global framework and business capabilities to evaluate solutions improvements or platforms,
• Ensures that the solution blueprint is aligned to functional requirements, as well as to the overall technology framework and quality.
• Ensures continuous improvement of live applications, constantly evaluating the current solutions vs the business needs to deploy a major leve