Director Of It
Current• Directly accountable for overall group IT vision and people to ensure strategies align with business requirements for IT and innovative platforms.• Collaborate and liaise closely with fundamental stakeholders and key-decision makers in multiple businesses to implement new digital processes, in line with individual and group strategies.• Implementation, delivery, and maintenance of various IT systems in line with business, regulatory and international legislation across a multitude of industries and global requirements, alongside mitigation strategies and risk management to ensure world-class security from internal and external sources.• Control and monitor Group IT function budgets.And some additional Key Achievements:• Critical driver for the Steering Committee and Project Management Team for the delivery of group-wide, centralised HR platforms.• Conceptualised and initiated Digital Marketing Transformation across the group through amulti-brand strategy, creating lead uplift and a move from external agencies to internal teams under my remit.• Mitigated fraud risks by creating group-wide purchase requisition and approval processes for multidisciplinary cross functional businesses.• Executed cloud-based platforms and device agnostic strategies for international remote working across the group.