IT Business Partner F&S NA IT Business Partner F

Trivium Packaging is aglobal sustainability leader in metal packagingwith more than 60 locations worldwide, nearly 8,000 employees, and an annualrevenue of approximately 3.0 billion. Trivium serves a diverse range of customers in a variety of end markets such as food, seafood, pet food, nutrition, beauty and personal care, household care, and premium beverages.

Trivium wants to shape the industry and has embarked on anambitious transformation journey. In the near term, focus is on building & upskilling the team, deciding where to play & how to win, and increasing financial performance byexecuting the Trivium Business System(commercial, operational, and supply chain excellence). Sustainability is embedded in our materials and in our actions.Trivium has ambitious sustainability targets and focuses exclusively onproducts that are infinitely recyclable. Our company sustainability journey has been awarded with a Platinum medal by EcoVadis, the world's leading rating agent who allocated this award only to the top 1% of the >75000 companies reviewed. Sustainability is embedded in each and every function at Trivium, it's in our DNA. The global head office is at Amsterdam Airport; however, many people work in virtual teams from different countries.Our culture is results-driven, entrepreneurial, informal, and highly multicultural.Our people have a high degree of responsibility.

Role Description

The role of IT Business Partner Food & Specialty North America (Director) is a new role recently introduced to optimize the value of the IT Portfolio for the Business Unit Food & Specialty North America (F&S NA). The IT Business Partner works closely together with the leadership of the BU F&S NA to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize IT demand, and deliver technology enabled initiatives. The IT Business Partner works closely together with the global IT Centers of Excellence and local IT to deliver technology enabled initiatives and improvements. The IT Business Partner provides input on behalf of the BU F&S NA for the technology portfolios and roadmaps managed by the Global IT Centers of Excellence.

The IT Business Partner reports to the CIO with a dotted line to the Finance Director. They are part of the Global IT Leadership Team and BU Management Team leading a team of five IT representatives.

Key Responsibilities
* Stakeholder engagement:
o Ensure all BU stakeholders are informed and aligned with IT portfolios and roadmaps and aware of key IT Enterprise Architecture principles
o Ensure all Global IT stakeholders are informed and aligned with BU challenges & priorities
* Business Alignment & Portfolio Management:
o Understanding the BU strategy and challenges and translate them into IT initiatives.
o Drive the prioritization and implementation of the relevant IT initiatives & roadmaps with the BU leaders and Global IT Centers of Excellence to shape the necessary technology advancement & process improvement
o Collaborate with Global IT leaders to embed BU priorities in IT roadmaps
* IT Value creation:
o Coordinate the delivery of IT and other technology initiatives for the BU
o Ensure BU specific requirements are met and business cases are realized
o Identify opportunities where technology can drive business value within the BU
* Escalation point:
o Serve as escalation point towards the BU for major IT incidents, operational issues or IT delivery performance issues.

Key Qualifications

* Strong stakeholder management leader to align various business- and IT stakeholders (lead through influence, not authority)
* Strong communicator and ability to align communications to different stakeholders
* Experienced with leadership in a distributed (and virtual) environment.
* Ability to shift gears between strategy and hands-on work
* Strong business acumen with the ability to understand and anticipate business needs * Teamwork
* Excellence
* Passion

What We Offer
* Exciting transformation journey to support business transformation
* Exposure to Senior Business Leadership, incl. Executive Committee members
* Opportunity to develop towards IT / Digital Leadership role
* Member of the Global IT Leadership Team

Requirements for the job
Education & Training:
* Bachelor's Degree in relevant field; Master's in Business Information Management or Business Technology Management preferred
* Relevant training & courses in Leadership (incl. delegation, people management, strategy)

Experience:
* Minimum 7 years working experience in a business relationship role within IT, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
* Experienced with Business IT Demand Management & Stakeholder engagement
* Proven experience with ERP, MES, and Analytics
* Bias toward action with a track record of driving initiatives from conception to completion. The ability to develop a vision but are also comfortable getting into the weeds and drive things as needed.
* Strong business acumen and experience in international industrial organizations
* Experience in managing distributed teams across in multiple countries (incl. outsourced offshore)
* Experience in managing business change activities or Continuous Improvement Initiatives
Competencies:
* Results-oriented, Teamwork, Excellence, Passion, Ambition to improve, Lead through influence, Customer Service Oriented

BRINGING YOUR TRUE SELF TO WORK

To reach our goals, we know we need colleagues at all levels who are truly diverse in every way. That's why we are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people and It's business critical for us to ensure all our people have what they need to perform at their best and can be their true selves at work.