Senior Manager IT Applications

As Senior IT Manager, you will provide strategic leadership at the interface between IT and business stakeholders, with a strong focus on Corporate, Commercial and Marketing functions.

You will own the Commercial & Marketing IT portfolio, managing overall IT demand and driving digital transformation to deliver business value, operational efficiency and competitive advantage.

Working closely with business leaders, process owners and project teams, you will shape end-to-end processes, define priorities, and ensure effective delivery of IT initiatives. You will also partner with IT program managers, architects and portfolio planners to align strategic direction, KPIs and budget planning (BBP).

Your Role

• Develop collaborative working relationships with Process owners and leaders to influence end to end business processes and enable digital transformation for IT capabilities and efficiencies.
• Develop a service view of the Commercial and Corporate Process towers including roadmaps and plans or consolidating and streamlining the applications within this portfolio. Identify efficiencies to streamline the end to end complexity.
• Portfolio Planning and Management: Lead the top-down and bottom-up effort to create a business-IT aligned portfolio of IT initiatives with cost estimates and quantifiable business benefits for the Corporate and Commercial function and related sub-functions.
• Business Case Development: Developing an astute understanding of the drivers of revenue, cost, and risk for the functions and leverage that to construct the business case jointly with business leaders and Commercial and Corporate functions.
• Drive solution selection and implementation for assigned business systems. Support the RFI, RFP, sourcing, negotiation of applicable enterprise license agreements and IT contracts as required.
• Project Execution and Delivery: Direct oversight of the planning and execution of IT projects to ensure execution to scope, budget (capital and expense), business need dates and attainment of objectives in scope within the Corporate and Commercial functions.
• Compliance Management: Providing technical oversight to ensure that actions taken by project teams are consistent with application direction, IT architecture and standards, IT security guidelines, project management process to ensure the best long-term total cost of ownership.
• IT Cost Management and Transparency: Responsible for managing Commercial & Corporate business and IT portfolio and related operating costs within target. Accountable to track consumption of services to ensure optimal allocation of IT resources and service levels. Find creative alternatives to ensure optimal service levels and end-user experience at minimal cost.
• Reporting and Communications: Keep business leaders and stakeholders as well as IT leaders informed on progress or projects, issues, risks, financials to ensure transparency, business input and collaborative decision making.
• Benchmarking Industry Best Practices: Maintain awareness of current and future direction of industry peers, and where appropriate, make recommendations for new systems and technologies.

• Bachelor or Master degree in the field of computer science, MIS, business administration, commercial, accounting or related discipline.
• 8 - 10 years of IT/shared services/process optimization experience in medium-large automotive, manufacturing, industrials, electronics, consulting and/or systems integration firms, with recent experience as an IT leader in a business facing, global and/or cross-functional role.
• Experience in IT functional domain along with demonstrated Business process expertise in providing IT solutions and services for Commercial and Marketing for a large multi-national company.
• Demonstrated track record of superior business engagement and influencing business leaders through use of business facing skills to accept and adopt creative win-win negotiations that drive optimal outcomes for business and IT.
• Experience and depth in IT applications involving On-Premise Applications, SaaS, Enterprise Data Warehouse, B2B Functional Portals.
• Salesforce or equivalent CRM platforms, Icertis or similar contract life cycle platforms, customer portals, analytics - Qlik, Tableau or equivalent
• Have a strong track record of good collaboration, service orientation and business value delivery; operating successfully in a matrixed IT environment; and building collaborative working with supplier resources in an outsourced IT model.
• Experience spanning business relationship management, project planning and execution, deployments, IT strategy and roadmap development, IT cost ownership drivers, IT sourcing and IT license management and enterprise license agreements.
• Experience with Systems Development Lifecycle, ITIL, IT infrastructure services, IT Audit and Compliance Management
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present information in ways senior business and financial leaders can understand and support.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work with stakeholders in different regions and interact effectively with different cultures.
• Exceptionally self-motivated to work with a geographically dispersed business and IT teams; ability to keep them motivated in a team-oriented, collaborative and matrixed environment.

• You can grow at Aptiv. Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.
• You can have an impact. Safety is a core Aptiv value; we want a safer world for us and our children, one with: Zero fatalities, Zero injuries, Zero accidents.
• You have support. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family and your physical and mental health with a competitive health insurance package.

• A valid residence permit or working visa
• A Portuguese Tax Identification Number (NIF)
• A Portuguese Social Security Number (NISS)