IT Business Process Manager

The IT Business Process Manager at Aqua-Chem plays a crucial role in aligning technology initiatives with business objectives, ensuring the smooth operation of IT systems, and mitigating risks related to technology and information security.

This position maintains information technology strategies across a multisite global organization, developing a comprehensive technological strategy to meet company needs; delivering optimal return on investment, and maintaining utmost security to support commercial and federal regulations that apply to system operations.

Schedule: FT, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Location: Onsite; Knoxville, TN

Pay Range: Dependent on Experience

Benefits: Group Medical, Dental Vision, 401(k) Match, Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, and Paid Sick Time. Employer Paid Benefits: STD, LTD, Life AD&D

Essential Duties

• Responsible for the overall technological strategy to support organizational goals of a global multisite organization.
• Understands business needs by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Collaborating with members of the executive team and global partners to identify ways IT can assist the company in achieving business and financial goals.
• Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining and delivering strategic plans for implementing information technology systems.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures to ensure business continuity.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements, providing recommendations for improvement of the current IT infrastructure.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting, budgeting, and monitoring annual expenditures, CAPEX expenditures.
• Manages local IT purchases, manages vendor agreements, and cultivates supplier relationships.
• Leads "local" development and implementation processes for the organizations IT systems.
• Has a key role in the integration projects to include integration of multisite global organization through merger and acquisition.
• Oversees security of systems, networks, and enterprise information.
• Implement and monitor IT security measures and facilitates IT security audits or investigations.
• Coordinates multisite IT systems via enterprise resource planning (ERP), managing ERP efforts and implementing across the organization.
• Identifies new developments and technologies; anticipates resulting organizational modifications.
• Deployment of paperless systems
• Establishes long-term IS needs and plans and develops strategies for developing systems and acquiring software and hardware necessary to meet those needs.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related field), MBA preferred but not required.
• Five (5) plus years of management experience leading multisite team.
• Ten (10) plus years of experience in the field of Information Technology.
• Experience working within a multisite global organization.
• Previous Project Management experience executing large IT/Information System implementations.
  
  

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Good interpersonal skills are required to interface with functional leaders across the company.
• Able to work overtime as required.
• This description indicates the general nature of the tasks and responsibilities required of positions given this classification. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of management to assign, direct, and control the specific duties of individuals performing this function. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper. This description supersedes any previous description for this position. This description supersedes any previous descriptions for this position.
• Aqua-Chem provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.