General IT Senior Professional BeNeFr - (HE)Office_Zaventem

Location:

Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Job ID:

R0017203

Date Posted:

2023-05-30

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY BELGIUM

Profession (Job Category):

IT, Telecom & Internet

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Hitachi Energy is hiring a General IT Senior Professional for the countries Belgium, The Netherlands & France. This is a hybrid role and can be based in France (Les Ulis), Belgium (Zaventem or Charleroi) or The Netherlands (Rotterdam) and your home-office.

Main Accountabilities:

• Solutions

Collaborates and works with the Infrastructure Product Groups, Country IT Managers, internal and 3rd Party IT Suppliers to build appropriate IT Services and Solutions; all in relevance to the department’s practice expertise leading to improved efficiency or operational functionality. Ensures successful delivery of the solution within agreed criteria. Is accountable for and supervises reviews of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and corresponding service monitoring/controlling metrics to identify rightsizing opportunities in IT Infrastructure domain. Proactively strives for improvements in the Infrastructure Service Portfolio.

• Service Delivery

Is responsible for the “End to End” IT Infrastructure service delivery to Business Units and countries. Implements effective interfaces between IT teams for all IT services and, where required, ensures adherence in line with agreed service level agreements (SLAs), all within the department’s practice competence. Lead IT delivery to the business by setting and monitoring delivery targets. Maintains relationships with business management at multi-country level to balance trade-offs for cost, time, and demand; manages expectations and requirements for delivery of global IT services. Lead the capture, analysis, aggregation, and prioritization of IT service demand.  In large audit and major security issues and where needed be involved in major compliance incidents. Involves in mergers and acquisition (M&A) projects.

• Processes

Is consulted and may be responsible for Infrastructure Project Delivery to Business Units and countries. Guides and supports Project Managers in their teams to enable on-time, on-budget, and quality project delivery for IT. Is a member of the Steering Committee for all Cross-Product Group projects within their region.

Collaborate with Country IT Management Team to analyses business demand for existing or new IT solutions. Ensures the optimization of internal and cross-functional processes related to IT Service delivery in relevant area of responsibility.

• IT Standards

Proactively drive standardization and harmonization of the infrastructure landscape. Ensuring alignment to given IT goals, and compliance with IT Enterprise Architecture and any relevant IT Standards. Provides input for development of IT internal standards. 

• Stakeholder Management

Face of Infrastructure in the Countries; works to increase satisfaction with IT services by assessing expectations, ensuring actions are taken to close any gaps and influencing stakeholder perceptions. Build successful relationships with Country/Site BU leads and the Product Groups to provide status updates, resolve issues, and manage expectations. 

• Incident, Change

Consults. provides input and can take ownership for any incident, change or project which has, or might have, a major impact on the Region, and/or on the whole of IT. Informs/consults relevant IT colleagues on any change or project activities which may have a major impact on the others' areas of responsibility. Directly engages vendors and/or product groups on behalf of their region with authority to take actions to limit or negate impacts of incidents. Engages with Service Integration to escalate or coordinate as and when required.

• Governance

Executes, for assigned tasks, all actions in IT processes according to agreed RACIS. Ensure teams adhere to IT process framework and governance model. Act as escalation point and resolve disputes arising in relation to IT business facing support and infrastructure services.

Your background:

• Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent, and at least 5 years of experience in a similar IT Service role.
• Extensive experience in crisis and stakeholder management
• Good practical knowledge of ITIL 4 and ServiceNow (back-end)
• Fluency in French and English. Dutch is a plus.