It Manager
Adealide
Elders is an agribusiness with 350 Branches Australia-wide, servicing 3000 users across multiple business units - Farm Supplies, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate and Livestock Agency. Turnover of $1.8B and 2,000 employees.Responsibilities: - Realign the information business strategy to suit fast-changing business environment- Develop a positive culture surrounding the internal use of technology- Streamline and modernise everyday operations- Monitor cyber security and regulatory compliance of the IT team and outsource partners- Manage operational/infrastructure deployments, improvements and cloud migrationsAchievements:- Ensured that IT infrastructure and staff was working in a unified, focused manner so that IT was not an inhibitor to the positive corporate change which was to come - Tendered new Telco contract and the whole of IT outsourcing contract ($17m/pa)- Managed significant upheaval: downsizing and restructuring staff, divestments of many business units, major tenders for communications and IT services, head office and datacentre relocation, introduction of cloud solutions and acquisition integrations - Reduced IT Budget by 40% through careful analysis, removing inefficient or ineffective processes in a way which was receptive to the staff and customers- Launched 3 online retail sites: (Agsure, Livestock and Elders Wholesale)- Implemented new Client Portal, allowing customers to view accounts/transactions online- Implemented new business systems for grain and conveyancing, on time on budget- Deployed ITIL based standardized work processes - Improved Disaster Recover Capabilities from one week to less than five minutes