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London, United Kingdom Industrial and Financial Systems Full time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

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Job Description

This is a key leadership position, driving operational excellence, strategic alignment, and overall efficiency within the IFS Unified Support function. This role requires a dynamic individual with strong leadership skills, exceptional communication abilities, and a strategic mindset to enhance the organization's effectiveness. The Director of Strategic Initiatives will operate through hands-on self-driven deliverables, coordination and editorial of other contributor’s work, and the direct management of a small team.

Responsibilities
  1. Strategic Planning: Ensure effective execution of the Unified Support strategy, in alignment with the wider Global Customer Services and overall IFS strategic direction. Partner with the divisional SVP, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and surrounding IFS functions (Finance, HR, R&D, Commercial, IT) to deliver on the strategy through partnerships, prioritisation, advocacy, and measurement.
  2. Operational Oversight: Continually monitor and respond to operational developments, as they pertain to strategic execution. Utilise new and existing communication channels, measurement dashboards and broad organisational relationships to identify and address opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness.
  3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across IFS (Finance, HR, R&D, Commercial, IT) to ensure continual alignment of strategies and prioritisations, especially with regard to financial drivers, growing service and product offerings, improving end customer experience and developing employee opportunities and ways of working.
  4. Performance Metrics & Analysis: Continually develop and monitor measurement capabilities and results, with specific analytical and action planning activity for Key Performance Indicators and measures connected directly with strategic execution and employee compensation.
  5. Team Management: Provide effective direct management of a small team and leadership and mentorship advisory for the Senior and Extended Leadership team to foster a positive, strategically-focused and high-performance culture.
  6. Communication: Continue the development of a central Communications function to ensure we communicate with clarity, consistency, and speed (when needed), and that we do this in a manner that it is easily received, understood and acted upon.
  7. Procurement: Oversee the procurement workflow within Unified Support, and its effective alignment to both IFS Procurement central processes, and Unified Support business needs.
Qualifications
  • Proven history in strategic planning, business development, or corporate strategy.
  • Demonstrated success in evaluating business performance; identifying measures, data analysis and interpreting impact.
  • Ability to identify and implement business improvement and/or cost saving initiatives.
  • Knowledge in developing and steering new service opportunities in line with business strategies and targets.
  • Sustaining Leadership Transparency and Accountability.
  • Advanced communication skills, written, verbal and preferably illustrative too:
    • Compelling Storytelling
    • Executive Messaging and Briefings
    • External and Internal Communications
    • Communication Coaching
    • Simplifying complex concepts
    • Inspiring action
    • Coherency across strategic, tactical and operational mandates
Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.

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