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Posted 09 June, 2019

IT Director UK, ROW & LATAM

Rentokil Initial
Blackwater, United Kingdom Full Time

Description Rentokil Initial Rentokil Initial is an international business services company employing over 35,000 colleagues across 70 countries. We...

Description

Rentokil Initial

Rentokil Initial is an international business services company employing over 35,000 colleagues across 70 countries. We strive to protect people and enhance lives, for example by controlling pests, improving hygiene and improving interior spaces with plants and scenting. We are experts in the fields we operate in, investing in training, science, innovation and technology.

Listening and acting on feedback is part of our culture to support colleagues and our customers. Rentokil Initial regards equality and fairness as a fundamental right of all of its colleagues. We live our values of Service, Relationships and Teamwork which were identified by our colleagues across the world.

Find out more on careers.rentokil-initial.com


Main Purpose of the Role

  • As a member of the UK, ROW and LATAM Executive teams ensure the alignment of the IT strategy for UK, ROW and LATAM to the individual business strategies and priorities
  • Responsible for the delivery of the UK, ROW and LATAM IT programmes to the agreed Annual Operating Plan (AOP) budgets
  • Supports the end-to-end IT M&A process - from due diligence to integration ensuring the smooth transition of systems, infrastructure and technology in line with Rentokil Initial Group IT & IT Security standards
  • Realigns the IT strategy and IT programmes to meet the short term M&A needs of UK, ROW and LATAM regions. Presents to the UK, ROW and LATAM Executive teams options describing potential re-prioritization of competing projects, opportunities to meet new demand through additional resource requirements and associated cost impact.
  • Supports UK, ROW and LATAM business change, acting as the IT single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them.
  • Ensures that stakeholders understand all available IT services, and promotes financial and commercial awareness in order to deliver value-for-money.
  • Identifies and manages IT resources needed for the planning, development and delivery of the agreed UK, ROW and LATAM IT programmes and IT services (including voice and data networks, telephony and multi-channel contact) ensuring that the IT infrastructure is managed to provide the agreed levels of service, data integrity and information security.
  • Ensures that there is a business understanding of how the new IT technical capabilities will be delivered to the business (This will include the planning around key business periods / cycles).
  • Defines and manages the IT activities to ensure achievement of the project business case after delivery. Responsible for the key business engagement messages that need to take place throughout the program/project.
  • Conducts analysis of demand for IT services and influences UK, ROW and LATAM stakeholders to ensure that the necessary investments are made to deliver required IT services.
  • Negotiates at senior level on technical and commercial issues, to ensure that customers, suppliers and other stakeholders understand and agree what will meet their needs, and that appropriate service level agreements are defined.
  • Identifies opportunities to deploy Innovation into the businesses in the UK, ROW and LATAM
  • Supports the standardisation, simplification and upgrade of the IT Infrastructure in UK, ROW and LATAM in line with Rentokil Initial Group standards ensuring current and future needs of the business are met.

Requirements

Your responsibilities will include...

  • Within a budgetary framework and with full accountability, takes management responsibility for the UK, ROW and LATAM IT function where the measure of success depends on achieving business goals, performance targets and agreed service levels as well as on the successful technical implementation and use of Information Systems and Digital capability/innovation.
  • Recognises, and actively seeks, ways to exploit information technology to address complex business, organisational and technical issues, of both a conventional and innovative nature. Influences senior level customers and project teams through change management initiatives, ensuring that professional standards are maintained.
  • Spearhead UK, ROW and LATAM's IT security hardware strategy in line with Rentokil Initial's Group standards and make sure these strategies are undertaken by the appropriate teams in country and at RI Group level.
  • Work with the key members of the UK, ROW and LATAM organisations to ensure everyone is working alongside each other to implement and maintain a standardised IT Security strategy. This includes conversing regularly with senior management and employees to make sure all IT security policies are deployed, revised, sustained and overseen effectively. As part of this, existing IT infrastructure must be audited and assessed for any security risks.
  • Uses all sources of data to predict any IT Security risks and deal with them accordingly. Assess vulnerabilities continuously and find fixes before an incident occurs.
  • Ensures policies around IT Security incidents are clearly understood and create an Emergency Response Team to act as and when a security incident is looming or has happened. As well as this, take full ownership alongside the Group Information Security Director to manage a disaster recovery plan to allow for business continuity post-cyber-attack.
  • In a specified area of authority, works with the UK, ROW and LATAM business management to define and initiate systems deployment projects which support the organisation's objectives and strategic plans. Regularly communicates information about planned projects as appropriate.
  • Plays an active part in the wider policy making and overall management of IT within the organisation and at Rentokil Initial Group IT Leadership Team level.
  • Initiates and influences relationships with and between key stakeholders, in business change design, management and implementation, acting as the primary IT point of contact for senior stakeholders and operational business partners.
  • Ensures that full account is taken of the practicalities of integrating and maximizing the benefits of the new technical capabilities into the business, including planning around key business cycles / periods, selecting appropriate candidates, branches and regions for migration, etc.
  • Uses extensive business knowledge to define the steps the business must take in order to accept and implement new IT-enabled processes, and communicates these steps to senior business managers, ensuring that they are committed to the change programme.
  • Assesses the readiness of business units to complete the necessary IT transformation, and ensures that they deliver site implementation plans, which align with the overall plan. Tracks and reports progress.
  • Defines and manages the IT activities to ensure achievement of the benefits described in the business case.
  • Outlines key business engagement messages that need to be communicated throughout the programme / project.
  • Identifies and assesses mid to long-term risks inherent in proposed changes, to ensure any potential scheduling and performance issues have minimum impact on provision of other IT services.
  • Ensures that correct project documentation is maintained and that Lessons Learned are communicated to the rest of the UK, ROW and LATAM businesses.
  • Ensures that key business stakeholders and management is both aware of and able to provide the resources required to undertake the agreed systems deployment projects and that available resources are properly utilised and accounted for. Advises business teams on the resources that they must provide.
  • Working with the business teams and end-users, monitors and reports on the progress of systems deployment projects, using appropriate quality assurance processes to ensure that projects are carried out in accordance with Rentokil Initial's agreed standards, methods, procedures and governance rules.
  • Ensures that systems deployment projects take full account of and, where necessary, correctly interface with the existing IT systems and IT infrastructure used in the UK, ROW and LATAM regions.
  • Seeks to identify and, where possible, rectify problems and deviations from the agreed project timelines, in particular changes in business requirements, especially where these have resource and cost implications.
  • Working with the UK, ROW and LATAM Executive

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