Director - Information Technology

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Director – IT located in Sriperumbudur.

Responsible for devising and modifying departmental guidelines to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results, in order to assure a competent work at the highest level of all phases of applications programming activities.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible to manage and provide leadership for the IT Operations (ERP, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Infrastructure teams).
• Ensuring onboarding the new customers' system readiness and integration with Flex IT system.
• Liasioning with Corporate and Regional teams on SLA Metrics, Best Practices and KOIs.
• Be responsible for collaborating with business-unit management, all technology areas of the IT Department, and outside consultants to assess feasibility, determine costs versus benefits, prioritize projects, develop and implement systems plans, and provide ongoing support to address the information requirements of the business and adhere to established strategic business and systems objectives.
• Develops plans for systems development and operations, hardware and software purchases, budget and staffing.
• Develop cost-effective information technology solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications that are more complex with full competency.
• Oversees the development, implementation, installation and operation of information and functional systems for the organization.
• Monitors management information systems policies and controls to ensure data accuracy, security and legal and regulatory compliance.
• Interact internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters.
• Direct and control the activities of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups or service areas through senior managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of those assigned areas.
• Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce.
• Plan and direct the activities of one or more Managers/Leads and their direct reports.
• Manage a technology area whose members closely collaborate with their customer in examining solution options and are responsible for planning and managing multiple application systems development, maintenance, and enhancement projects utilizing computing architecture platforms.
• Provide direction for the development and utilization of assigned resources.
• Minimize investment and maximize value of the available resources of the business unit at all levels.
• Make final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensure operations’ effective achievement of objectives.
• Approve system development cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team

• Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 12 years of information systems experience, including people management.
• IT related certifications are preferred.
• Approves and/or creates functional processes or technologies.
• Establishes and ensures effective achievement of functional strategic plans and objectives for the site.
• May have P&L responsibility for the function.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide

• Medical insurance
• PTO

NK99

IT

Flex pays for all costs associated with the application, interview or offer process, a candidate will not be asked for any payment related to these costs.

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