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Director | IT Cost Efficiency FinOps

Chennai Temporary View Job Description
This senior role sits in the top IT leadership globally. The role represents a great opportunity to join an organisation of significant scale that is transforming to a platform operating model and looking to modernise its traditional application landscape and needs a strong IT leader to help on that journey.
  • Fast track growth & PnL ownership
  • Handling multiple clients

About Our Client

Our client is a renowned name in the logistics space.

Job Description

The Director of Run Efficiency will be accountable for:
* Establishing the program which manages the overall cost efficiency of IT Run costs.
* Establishing the practices and ways of working across teams which identifies the drivers of cost, and continuously improves cost efficiency in responsible departments.
* Establishes the processes which enable teams to innovate with cost saving ideas and to pipeline initiatives supported by the required investment business cases.
* Builds the insourcing investment business cases, and leads the insourcing initiatives.
* Coordinates across the global organisation and with suppliers as required to build the visibility of the cost saving initiatives planned, ongoing or required.
* Establishes the required practices of automation to eliminate manual work
* Manages the software license and consumption portfolio.

The Successful Applicant

▪ Establish the required Run Cost Management capabilities and Processes.
▪ Establish the ways of working which ensure continuous improvement of run cost in the responsible functions.
▪ Run the program across IT to deliver an agreed target cost saving in Run Costs annually.
▪ Generate incremental savings required to re-invest in building internal operations capabilities.
▪ Build the business cases to support insourcing relevant services to drive run cost savings, and run the insourcing projects to realise those outcomes.
▪ Drive the automation of manual tasks.
▪ Responsible for optimising the software licencing needs portfolio.

What's on Offer

* Competitive salary
* Self & Family Health Insurance
* Term & Life Insurance
* OPD Benefits
* Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI)
* Learning & Development through HL Academy
* Flexible Work from Home
* Leave Travel Allowance
* Variable performance bonus
* Recreation facilities
* Privilege, Casual and Sick leaves

Quote job ref
JN-072025-6779726

Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
CIO / IT Director
What is your area of specialisation?
Transport & Distribution
Location
Chennai
Job Type
Temporary
Job Reference
JN-072025-6779726

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