IT Platform Lead – Sales & Marketing

 

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

 

About the position 
 
Are you looking to make an impact?  In this position, you’ll be supporting our Global Business Teams across markets, driving the creation of the Roadmap with full IT accountability of our Sales and Marketing business applications platform.  
 

Main Accountabilities:

Within his/her Sales & Marketing portfolio scope, the Platform lead has the following accountabilities:  

• Accountable for setting and directing the future Applications Roadmap for the Sales and Marketing business processes.  

• Managing pipeline of change demand for Sales and Marketing business processes, ensuring optimized throughput, balanced with financial and resource constraints.  

• Works with Enterprise Architecture to set the long-term Application and Vendor strategy for the Sales and Marketing application platform   

• Ensure robust IT implementation and run-cost estimation as part of overall business case owned by Global Process Owners.  

• Overseeing delivery of the overall project / change program for their sub-portfolio – ensuring delivery of agreed projects to time, cost, quality, scope and ultimately business case along with a robust governance framework and proactive quality assurance framework.  

• Accountable for the day-to-day running of the application services that underpin the business process(es).  

• Recommends and implements the Support Model and Support Partner strategy for the applications in scope, in alignment with the overall IT Support Model.  

• In order to provide business assurance and manage risk, ensures sustained regime of IT General Controls is being effectively operated at all times, with control gaps remediated or mitigated as agreed.  

• Supporting QA and Cyber team in the joint review of any supplier assurance reports, identifying and recording any financial / operational risks and defining mitigating IT controls required  

• Manages contract execution with Application Support partners, chairing monthly service reviews and ultimately accepting service delivery performance against contract.  

• Owns and manages the Budget for their application services being accountable for delivery to budget.  

• Actively pursue opportunities to reduce total costs of services through activities across the lifecycle  

• Acting in role of manager, responsible for planning of team succession, in order to manage risk relating to knowledge retention and critical roles / individuals.  

• Overseeing partner resource management, in order to manage risk relating to knowledge retention and critical roles / individuals.  

What Does It Take to Be Successful? 

We’re looking for a candidate with proven experience in the Sales & Marketing function within a multinational company, along with a strong understanding of Modern Trade and General Trade business processes — a must for this role. Ideally, you’ve worked in an Applications Product Management or Platform Lead role and have experience as a Solution Architect. Managing a portfolio of application projects or leading major application transformation programs would be a great advantage. You should also have a track record of delivering multiple application solutions or projects as a functional consultant in the Sales and Marketing function. P