Director of Business Systems

Inspectorio is a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) solution focused on creating a dynamic and risk-assessment based Quality and Compliance program with the goal of generating more sustainable and transparent supply chains. Our network is a one-stop-shop platform where all key stakeholders in the production process can connect to execute, monitor, and report on Quality and Compliance activities.

Our products provide digitization, automation, transparency, and traceability, with a strong focus on advanced analytics & Machine Learning. This enables us to leverage customer data for predictive insights and dynamic risk-based interventions.

Founded in 2016, Inspectorio set out to revolutionize the supply chain industry. Today, we work with many of the world’s leading brands and retailers, and thousands of vendors and factory organizations across the globe to bring unparalleled levels of visibility, transparency, and accuracy to their quality, sustainability, and compliance initiatives!

Who You Are

Inspectorio is hiring a Director of Business Systems to drive systems strategy and execution to support our growth in business capabilities, applications, APIs, and integrations. This is a highly cross-functional and results driven role that will report directly to the EVP of Global Operations, work directly with our C-Level Executive Team and CEO, and work closely with business functions like Sales, Marketing, People, Legal, Finance, Product & Engineering.

What you'll do

CULTURE

• Create a culture of embracing Business-Led IT and IT serving as the glue in large, cross-functional initiatives
• Focus on data, KPIs and business outcomes
• Demonstrate predictable delivery with small MVPs
• Create a culture of metrics-driven IT performance

STRATEGY

• Drive vision, mission and technology strategy, buy vs build decisions, balancing competitive advantage with time to market

CUSTOMER FIRST

• Work closely with Product & Engineering to build a deep understanding of the customer journey, and optimize enterprise infrastructure for customer experiences

RELATIONSHIPS

• Serve as a liaison and business partner to key stakeholders, facilitating discussions on process, technology and shared accountability

ARCHITECTURE & GOVERNANCE

• Envision and architect the entire enterprise for optimized KPIs, solving business problems, ensuring data quality, scale, security, reliability and availability
• Ensure basic architecture and data governance principles are followed
• Apply best practices for Hub and Spoke architectures and micro-services

VENDOR MANAGEMENT

• Drive RFP process and select vendors that provide business capabilities for Finance, Legal, HR, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Compliance, Business Development, Engineering
• Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships

DEMAND MANAGEMENT

• Lead function’s demand intake process and collaborate with business stakeholders on quarterly objectives and ongoing team staffing
• Influence executive stakeholders when making business and technical decisions
• Track project status (red/yellow, green) and serve as an escalation point for unblocking agile team

PRODUCT & DEVELOPMENT TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Manage agile teams of business systems analysts, developers, project managers and product managers delivering on business priorities
• Hire A players and retain top talent in every seat
• Assist engineers in expediting technical solutions, resolving production issues and unblocking agile projects
• Manage a team budget and headcount, contract-to-FTE ratios, on shore and off-shore capacity

SDLC MANAGEMENT

• Document and manage business capabilities, systems and integrations to ensure portfolio optimization, SLAs and high data quality
• Manage epics, user stories, defects in Jira
• Ensure high quality code and configuration, signed-off by business users
• Conduct hands-on POC's in new and existing technologies
• Perform code and configuration reviews when needed
• Manage production tickets and new project request, by business function
• Work closely with security to ensure solutions meet security requirements
• Manage system life cycle, especially post M&As
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines and overall release mgt process

INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT

• Analyze current industry trends for open source, low code platforms, new business systems and educate key stakeholders and engineers