Group Information and Management Systems; IMS) Manager

Position: Group Information and Management Systems (IMS) Manager

The role is accountable for enterprise technology and ERP transformation delivery, enterprise transformation governance, adoption, benefits realisation and effective transition into business-as-usual operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead and maintain a multi-year enterprise technology strategy aligned to organisational objectives, transformation priorities, operational efficiency, governance requirements and risk appetite.
• Engage executive leadership and business leaders to identify technology priorities, capability gaps, innovation opportunities and material operational constraints.
• Own and communicate the enterprise technology roadmap, including investment requirements, dependencies, risks, milestones and expected business outcomes.
• Monitor strategic execution through governance reviews, performance dashboards and executive reporting, and adjust priorities as business needs, risk exposure and technology trends evolve.
• Own delivery accountability for ERP and broader enterprise technology transformation, ensuring integrated plans, executive sponsorship, delivery assurance and measurable business outcomes.
• Own the enterprise IT governance framework, technology policies, decision rights and control standards, while supporting the CFO on fiduciary and board-level governance responsibilities.
• Own enterprise architecture principles, target state, standards and guardrails across applications, infrastructure, data and security domains.
• Approve material architecture exceptions and policy deviations, ensuring risks, mitigations, accountabilities and target remediation dates are documented and governed.
• Monitor architecture compliance, technology debt and policy effectiveness, and report material trends and exposures to executive leadership and relevant governance bodies.
• Own enterprise data, analytics, artificial intelligence and information-governance strategy, standards and decision rights, including responsible use, data quality, security, privacy and value creation.
• Own enterprise accountability for IT risk management, information security governance and strategic technology resilience.
• Ensure cyber and information security frameworks, controls and oversight mechanisms are aligned to organisational risk appetite and governance obligations.
• Provide strategic oversight of disaster recovery and technology continuity, ensuring plans, testing and remediation support critical business operations.
• Communicate material technology risks, cyber incidents, control gaps and remediation priorities to executive leadership and the Board, including the Audit and Risk Committee, as required.
• Hold the Operations & Security Manager and service providers accountable for effective security, infrastructure and access-control execution within approved standards.
• Set technology investment principles and provide strategic challenge to the IT portfolio, ensuring alignment to business value, risk reduction, regulatory requirements and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with the IMS Operations Manager on portfolio prioritisation, capacity trade-offs, delivery risk and benefit realisation.

Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline; postgraduate business or technology qualification advantageous.

Experience & Competencies

• Substantial senior leadership experience across enterprise technology, ERP-enabled transformation, governance, cyber risk, data and complex programme delivery.
• Demonstrated experience engaging executive and board governance structures and leading multi-stakeholder business change and benefits realisation.
• Strategic judgement, commercial acumen, enterprise leadership, influence, change leadership, risk management and clear executive communication.