Brand Manager, IT

Role overview

Business partnership and technology delivery

• Advise brand teams, Customer Excellence, and local stakeholders on technology for value-added digital activities.
• Identify local technology opportunities aligned with business strategies and build relationships with regional, geographic, and corporate BTS teams.
• Assess emerging technology strategies and plan transitions affecting affiliate business strategies, systems, and procedures.
• Manage or contribute to global and area system implementations; define, initiate, and oversee affiliate or regional technology projects.
• Prioritize initiatives by business impact and effort and ensure projects meet local regulatory and legal requirements.

Value, adoption, and external relationships

• Help stakeholders evaluate project risks, costs, success measures, and ROI; promote platform value and usage and gather user feedback.
• Foster innovation and manage change; advise external partners and customers on technology use.
• Manage external relationships and contractual considerations and share solutions across BTS, affiliates, and brand teams.

Experience and education

• 5–7 years of significant IT consultancy or digital solutions experience; fluency in English.
• Experience analyzing, designing, and improving business processes and working with compliance and the system life cycle.
• Understanding of digital strategies with analytics; experience delivering such strategies is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent experience; business or a closely related discipline is preferred.

Capabilities

• Work effectively with all levels of management; demonstrate independent decision-making, organization, planning, and problem-solving.
• Influence within a matrix organization and lead without direct authority.
• Manage technology projects through the full lifecycle and manage external service providers.

Work arrangement

• Hybrid work model with three fixed office days and two flexible days.