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Our business landscape

We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio: 
  Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea
  cable business and fintech.

• Strengthen the Core:
  Optimally using deployed capital and
  maintain an appropriate cost structure.

• Evolve the Core:
  Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing
  on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.

• People:
  Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.

• Excellence in Customer Experience:
  Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey.
We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-
life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking
to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

This position will work with the Ooredoo Group Leadership Team, the OpCo Leadership and direct reports and the Associate Director IT Enablement will be accountable for the successful delivery of ESS Transformation Program by alignment of technology and digital strategies that will strengthen the ESS platform. The program aims to implement a unified way of working across Finance, Sourcing and Human Resources with clear roles and responsibilities that eliminates redundancy and promotes efficiency.

The role will ensure a coordinated approach throughout Ooredoo, enabling Ooredoo operations to execute their mandates effectively.

The Director will be accountable for TO-BE SAP architecture and effective migration and stabilization within the Program with the defined timeframes and budget.

The role will report into the Sr. Director Program Support Office and will be subject to Governance via the GMC and ESS SteerCo.

Your impact on our goals

• Responsible for governing services consistent with the to-be architecture design in alignment with business expectations

• Supports in alignment of technology and digital strategies and strengthens ESS platform response to changes in the business environment and improving the alignment between business and IT strategy

• Ensures implementation and sustenance of ESS technology platform to achieve the intended business objectives

• Supports in architecture alignment of ESS and other strategic technology initiatives

• Ensures ongoing alignment of IT roadmap and ESS strategies with business imperatives

• Manages ESS technology Portfolio

• Provides periodic status updates and participates in committee review meetings as required

Experience

• 10 years of Senior Management Experience

• Minimum 5 years of IT Transformation and SAP experience

• Minimum 5 years in sector industry

• Deep knowledge and experience in SAP cloud technologies like ECC, S4HANA, SAAS, ABAP, BRF+, Fiori, BTP, SAC or Oracle Fusion, EBS

• First-hand experience in setting up operational processes and tools

• Familiar with ITIL framework

• Experience on integrating legacy applications with SAP landscape

• Proven experience in making organization adopt to new technologies

• Proven experience in building standards, tools and support processes

• Understanding of the dev-ops delivery model

• Ability to review design documents, critique architecture recommendations from other SMEs

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders with diverse and divergent business needs, resolves conflicts and bring alignment towards a common and robust design in system.

• Clear, concise business communication and experience conducting business requirements workshops with business users.

• Extensive knowledge of software engineering from ground up or extensive knowledge of the technical services in the specific area and operations around them

• Strong knowledge of how to lead and motivate in a large-scale IT organization with both people and technology focus

• High level of energy and creativity for transformation, willingness to go the extra mile

• Other: Regional and international travel

Qualifications

• University degree, Master’ preferred