Company Description
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world.
Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.
Job Description
Overall Purpose:
In this Digital Technologies & Analytics (DT&A) Service Manager role, your primary responsibility is to provide oversight and management to your team that provide advice and recommendations to leadership and IT management on any aspects of an organization's IT function, including infrastructure, applications, security, data or process management.
Your specific areas of responsibilities are:
1 – SAP Finance
2 – SAP Controlling
3 – SAP & all Tax systems
4 – Financial integration with all commercial applications
Your main responsibilities for the Finance Service Management will be:
- Enterprise Digital Modernization: Deliver digital solution architecture services as assigned ensuring the proper quality and SLAS managing internal or external teams to achieve the proper result
- Digital Strategy/Transformational & Projects Execution: Manage and deliver end-to-end digital programs and initiatives leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation and operations
- Digital Vision and Strategy: Support strategy formulation for digital by exploring how information technology can be used to help the organization become more responsive to customer needs
- Clear articulation of Service performed and it’s value for the organization (this is done in alignment with your business partners all over the LCD locations); build and implement strategic roadmap; plan a role of technology advisory for your organization; manage budget and yearly budget improvement...
Your main accountabilities:
1. Service:
- Align with LDC expectations
- Align service with business expectations
- Co-build and be an advisory for the digital transformation target
2. People:
- Build your team
- Manage a career path for all your members
3. Project:
- Structure, organize and estimate projects
- Ensure project preparation in term on cost, organization, payback estimate
- Track realization of the value
- Ensure solution robustness
Qualifications
- Master's degree in computer Sciences or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years in IT leadership role ensuring a team organization, team delivery in a distributed organization
- 10+ years of experience in services management and SAP landscape
- Practical expertise in IT/Digital project delivery
- Practical expertise in various project methodologies such as AgiIe/Scrum/Kanban/WaterfaII/Six Sigma/etc.
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed team
- Knowledge of best practice project management methodologies and techniques to provide sound advice and support to Project Managers and Sponsors
- Knowledge in application landscape and portfolio management
- Expert of IT application development and infrastructure including SAP, Azure
- Ability to improve operational efficiency and service delivery across the DT&A organization
- Fluent in English
- Inclination to make improvements, find new ideas and challenge the status quo
- Strong analysis and synthesis capacity, ability to negotiate and influence both internally and externally
- Excellent teamwork, communication & collaboration skills and capacity to establish rapport and persuade others
Additional Information
What We Offer
We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Our Benefits
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Competitive salary and benefits
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Flexible working
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Access to Training and Development
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Discretionary Bonus
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Profit Sharing plan
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Lunch vouchers
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Public transportation refund
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Workers council social benefits
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Legal annual paid leave + up tp 14 days RTT
Diversity & Inclusion
LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
Sustainability
Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us
Top Skills
What We Do
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. We leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world, delivering the right products to the right location, at the right time – safely, responsibly and reliably. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines (platforms). Since 1851 our portfolio has grown to include Grains & Oilseeds, Carbon Solutions, Food & Feed Solutions, Coffee, Cotton, Juice, Rice, Sugar, Freight and Global Markets. We help feed and clothe some 500 million people every year by originating, processing and transporting approximately 80 million tons of products. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and eight platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 17,000 people globally. For more information, visit www.ldc.com.
