Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Responsible for providing vision, leadership, administrative and technical support in the strategic planning and organization of the IT resources provided by the facility. This responsibility includes providing IT consultative services to the senior management relating to the use of technology, developing and enforcing IT policy and procedures and providing strategic direction to leadership staff in order to increase the efficiency, effectiveness of business processes, practices and overall business goals.

• Developing and maintaining facility policies and standards aimed at maximizing effectiveness and minimizing costs related to the acquisition, implementation and operation of IT systems
• Developing and maintaining IT policies and standards relating to the acquisition, implementation and operation of information technology and communication systems
• Recommending updates and/or revisions of facility policies and procedures regarding appropriate usage of technology within the facility
• Establishing and maintaining a working environment conducive to positive morale, individual style, quality, creativity and teamwork within approved policies and procedures
• Maintaining and communicating a vision of how IT will support future business direction, relationships and working practices of facility
• Developing and maintaining an appropriate organisational structure capable of supporting the information needs of operating departments/sections through appropriate and cost-effective information technology
• Researching and evaluating alternatives for the enhancement or re-engineering of business processes using information systems, technology and making recommendations to the senior management team
• Participating on the senior management team to define and monitor the facility's organisational strategy and to discuss, resolve problems or issues that have an impact on the facility
• Ensuring that the IT department/section staff understand the facility's strategy and are aligning the systems, processes and business priorities with the strategy
• Managing the process of preparing the IT department/section's annual business objectives, operating, capital budget for all IT projects and equipment
• Ensuring that business objectives are aligned with the facility's strategy and the activities and objectives of other departments within the facility
• Assessing technology capacity to meet the future needs of the facility and recommending new applications and new configurations
• Ensuring the optimal balance between the development of new systems and leveraging existing legacy systems
• Monitoring all internal and outsourced projects
• Negotiating all IT acquisition contracts, soliciting the involvement and participation of other Management team members as appropriate
• Negotiating IT service level agreements and user organization third party suppliers and monitoring IT systems performance to ensure service levels are met
• Ensuring that key system downtimes are adhered to in accordance with the departmental Service Level Agreement

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems or equivalent
• 10 years progressive IT experience with leadership responsibility
• Preferred: Experience in the Healthcare industry
• English and Arabic language proficiency
• Indepth knowledge of information technology, IT trends and strategies, combined with business knowledge
• Proficiency with clinical information systems, enterprise resource planning, application development methodologies, networking, e-commerce and management of IT support and outsourced services

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.

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IT Manager salaries in Saudi Arabia

Average monthly compensation
SAR 16,000

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