VP Business Solutions

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

IFS is now recruiting a VP of Business Solutions to drive the future of our business platforms. You will have the responsibility for leading IFS internal Business Platforms through strategy, run and change in an evolving and growing organisation.  The role will oversee direct platforms strategic change and tactical operations and the overall health for all applications services in its remit while managing key vendor contracts and relationships. 

This comprehensive role requires a dynamic leader who can drive the successful delivery of IT services and applications, ensuring a business led approach and alignment with organizational goals while always fostering a culture of  our people first, excellence and continuous improvement driving value for our business.

This role will be responsible for building high performing teams in an international environment, leveraging our IFS platforms to drive our business and proactively looking for value and opportunities to support our business through platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Essential duties and accountabilities

• Management and leadership of our end to end platform teams, a real team leader who can drive high performing international teams.
• Driving business ‘driven’ strategic platform roadmaps, maximising platform capabilities and process standardisation
• Responsible for the delivery of internal critical business applications services to the user community developing specific objectives, budgets, resources, and operations to support them.
• Assist Business Product Owners, Process Owners, IT Business Partners and the Project Management Office to define and deliver their applications demand pipeline often working within a larger initiative with key dependencies.
• Work with all stakeholders to optimize resources and resolve conflicting priorities looking how to optimise outcomes for our business.
• Own the overall design and support of the global applications environment ensuring its health and working with the Operations Support team to adhere to overall IT SLAs and working practices, including the evolution of and execution of  methodologies for all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Develop and implement data quality and governance standards, identify, and assign business owners in each area as needed to ensure the maintained integrity of our data.
• Responsible for continuous improvement and simplification of processes as part of the IT Leadership Team, team collaboration and outcome focused is key to this role.

Qualifications

To be successful you will have:

• Min.5 years of ERP or large business platforms experience, medium to large enterprise at a leadership level
• Min. 5 years of leadership experience in managing multiple, cross-function teams and projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders required.
• A successful track record as a leader, developer, and manager of people; demonstrated experience to attract, retain and develop strong talent and build a positive organizational and team culture.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries on a local and global scope.
• Excellent English skills (spoken and written)
• Development practices including ITIL, Project Management delivery methodologies
• Great communication and listening skills across all levels of the organisation
• Demonstrated negotiation and complex problem-solving skills
• Ability to think about the future state and strategic directions while implementing quick wins and delivering business value in a cost effective and agile manner
• Solution Architecture thinking across platforms with business process and outcomes focus
• Ability to work cohesively with other teams within the Information Technology department and within the IFS group, team collaboration working style is key
• Ability to effectively lead change management in a positive manner and to handle changing priorities.
• Proven high performing people leader – development of international teams, leading from the front

Desirable:

• Good knowledge of different project delivery methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) and how often to blend the 2 together working across several teams with an overall project management layer
• Knowledge in leading Design Authorities, driving collaborative design solutions, looking for out of the box solutions

Project Management Qualification (Prince, PMP)

ITIL

ERP Leadership Experience

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.