IT Manager

Hybrid work from home environment
- Incredibly flexible and adaptable business
- Innovate and develop the IT infrastructure

**The company**

Our client is a highly diverse and modern manufacturing business focused on providing incredibly innovative food products for the world’s future population. The business has continued to quickly expand operations, with key investment enabling the business to next gen technologies and ensure they are not just remaining ahead of the curve, but are setting the trends. In order to keep up with this growth and innovation, the IT ecosystem will be continuing to undergo refinement and a major scale up process and through this the business is looking to bring in a highly talented and resourceful IT Manager.

**The role**
- Day to day leadership of the IT department; taking full accountability over the growing teams’ requirements, this could include: induction of new starters, ongoing training, skills development and prioritising/allocating IT related tasks.
- Supporting the broader team, assisting with identifying opportunities, technical resolutions and ensuring all IT issues are accounted for and actioned in a timely manner.
- Working collectively to assist in the build and ongoing maintenance of the fit for purpose next generational IT technology, ensuring this technology is capable to operate seamlessly at scale.
- Maintain documentation, risk register, change control and capacity planning for all IT systems, infrastructure and projects.
- Develop and implement functional IT policies and procedures.
- Maintaining and optimising both existing systems and overseeing the systems integration of new systems into the wider ERP.
- Working with an array of existing and new stakeholders to manage expectations and ensure all parties are effectively represented or communicated to. This can include; internal teams, offshore IT staff, third-party vendors and a growing list of technology suppliers.
- Maintain effective project management and governance overactive IT projects.

**Your background**
- Ideally Tertiary qualifications in an ICT or software area, non-tertiary qualifications will also be considered depending on the individuals experience in leading an IT department.
- Must have solid exposure to maintaining and optimising ERP systems within a modern FMCG manufacturing environment, it will be advantageous if the person has experience with on-prem technologies as a base level, who has then moved into cloud and more modern tech stacks.
- Must be comfortable as a hands-on contributor, able to prioritise and solve problems in a timely manner. This person will be able to shift and adapt priorities depending on the situation and provide guidance to technical solutions where necessary.
- This person will come with excellent communication skills and the ability to work autonomously or as part of a team to drive results.
- Exposure or experience with security technologies, SCADA and MES as well as other manufacturing automated systems will be highly desirable.
- Experience with migrating or changing ERP systems within a manufacturing FMCG environment will be a plus.
- The ideal person will be willing to learn, fail forward and be looking to grow with the business.

**What’s on offer?**
This person will have the opportunity to work within a forward thinking and incredibly innovative FMCG manufacturing business. The company is looking at global reach and growth targets over the next several years, with this person leading the charge for all IT infrastructure and emerging technologies for the entire business. For the right person this role will evolve over time to become the CIO for the business with a strategic and future technology focus

If you would like to discuss the opportunity further, you can contact Lucas Shah at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7407.