Senior Manager - IT Strategy Formulation & Program Management

Tandem Search

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP709-1439

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

IT Strategy Formulation and Project Management Manager
Skill: IT Strategy formulation and project management
Level: Senior Manager.

Technology Growth Platform (TGP) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our TGP consultants can expect to:
- Work with cutting edge technology
- Deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries
- Work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
- Receive continuous training
- Gain rapid career progression
- IT Strategy, Infrastructure and Security (ISIS) falls within the TGP organization and provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent, transforming economics and effectiveness, and the overall design, of a company's information technology capabilities and/or functions. Information technology capabilities include IT planning and management, IT processes and approaches, and IT assets that provide the operational components necessary to run applications.

The IT Strategy and Transformation (ITST) Practice within Technology Consulting, focuses on improving the business value of IT. Our professionals are experienced with bold, value-creating approaches to IT, bringing boardroom-relevant criteria to IT investments and helping high-performance businesses to think bigger about ITs ability to improve operating results.

Senior Managers will lead larger, more challenging consulting projects for existing or new clients. Additionally, Senior Managers work closely with the Partners in ITST as well as client Partners in industry groups in proposal development and high-impact business pursuits.

Key Responsibilities may include:
- Lead a consulting team ranging from 3 15 people from within ITST and other consulting practices, providing overall direction and oversight in the creation of client work products.
- Occasionally, be engaged in more than a single project, serving as a subject matter advisor on specific IT management topics across 2-3 projects.
- Manage work in such a way that the results are both of distinctive quality and useful to the client in terms of improving competitive position.
- Provide specific guidance to team members to ensure that project focus is on target and work is accomplished on time and of the highest quality standards.
- Contribute to thought capital development on topics of interest to potential clients and collaborating with others in the firm on client development activities.
- Ability to travel 100% to meet client requirements.

The role offers generous tax free salary, benefits and bonus.

Requirements

- Minimum Bachelors Degree.
- Minimum 10 years strategic IT consulting experience in one or more of the following areas:
- IT alignment: IT strategy and vision formulation, gap analysis, business case development, investment prioritization, planning;
- IT transformation: evaluating and improving the processes, tools and methods of the CIOs organization;
- IT enablement: enabling business capabilities through innovative information technologies;
- IT optimization: Defining business cases and plans to execute the consolidation of hardware, software, data centers and technology operations; or IT management and delivery; or
- IT transformation, leadership, governance, sourcing, measurement, organization structure, merger integration, and global IT management.
- Minimum 7 years experience writing business cases (quantitative and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformation.
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading large teams to deliver new business or IT capabilities.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in pricing strategy including deal shaping, and business case development.

Professional Skills:
- Possess a high energy level, sense of urgency, decisiveness, and an ability to work well under pressure.
- Possess a curiosity and a passion towards engaging the imagination of senior level executives in grasping and enabling the fundamentals of change.
- Have a proven record as a team player; able to foster excellent relationships and create an atmosphere of partnership and collaboration.
- Be a professional of unquestionable integrity, credibility and character who has demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior.
- Experience dealing with senior executives with internal and external clients.

About the Company

Building businesses, changing lives

At Tandem, we’ve built a vast network of top-tier professionals across the globe. We empower businesses to thrive by delivering unmatched talent solutions. With our global reach, collaborative approach, and unwavering commitment to excellence, we drive transformative growth and shape exceptional teams.

Who we are.

We are a team of industry experts, driven by a passion for innovation and excellence. We are dedicated to providing unique talent solutions and nurturing collaborative partnerships that redefine success.

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