The Digital Technology Leader for the China organization will be instrumental in establishing the vision, shaping the strategy and executing the roadmap for innovative digital and enterprise solutions that will position the company to succeed and continue to be at the forefront of the world's people moving systems industry. As part of the Global CIO leadership team, you will work with business partners, executive members, technology, design, research and product colleagues, to shape the China digital strategy aligned with the overall enterprise vision by partnering closely with CoEs and digital team members to ensure specific initiatives are set up for success with a solid foundational grounding of customer, market and competitive and technical fit.
Digital Strategy
•Partner with Chief Digital Officer and Global CIO to structure planning sessions with executive leadership team related to enterprise digital strategy and operational execution for China and for strategic enterprise initiatives
•Collaborate with digital leadership team (DLT) to clarify and articulate department level strategies across digital and provide voice of the customer as a business relationship manager
•Own business engagement with China leadership team to implement key strategic initiatives that are prioritized for the China transformation
•Ensure strong linkage between enterprise-wide digital initiatives and China priorities including adoption and implementation of global business systems and provide guidance to DT professionals within the organization
•Serve as primary point of contact with business leaders seeking partnership on inclusion of digital within enterprise planning; consult, advocate and help create the narrative for digital priorities in context of business level initiatives Operations
•Serve as key point of contact to the region seeking to initiate new digital initiatives in coordination with Digital Technologies, Product, Design, and Engineering leadership
•Partner with leadership to clarify project intent, scope, and requirements
•Identify areas of synergies across disparate projects ideas and initiatives as part of global DT leadership team
•Govern the methodology for project intake, prioritization and concept evaluation as part of the global DT leadership team
•Oversee the infrastructure, adopt global network standards, and cyber policies
•Analyze the costs, value and risks and advice DT leadership team in optimization areas
•Partner with China finance leadership to own accounting and projections across initiatives balanced with capacity planning for existing and burst capacity resourcing
•Act as advocate and change agent to communicate methodologies, ways of working, and process to customers, working teams and peers Program leadership
•Support execution of programs within the Digital technology organization, with heavy collaboration with the CTO organization
•Plan, design, and facilitate internal working sessions to align cross-disciplinary teams around shared goals and workplans across multiple functional and regional teams Experience/Qualifications Required
•Minimum of 12 years of digital leadership roles with strong understanding of ITIL, compliance and customer focused roles
•Business, financial, and technical acumen, with focus on results and outcomes. Demonstrate exceptional communication, fostering a collaborative environment and encouraging imagination and innovation among team members
•Experience in transformation roles or programs with ability to lead organizations and teams through change
•Track record of user-centered product development achieving business outcomes employing technical innovation
•Minimum of 7 years of proven, hands-on experience in Agile methodologies
•Strong analytical, strategic and creative problem-solving skills.
•Strong presentation skills and experience with C-level engagements
•High degree of influencing skills and collaboration
•Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Preferred Qualifications
•Relationship building and stakeholder management – effective listener who ensures alignment on planned actions taking opposing views into consideration
•Advanced communication & story-telling – ability to communicate at all levels of the organization and adapt messaging to audience; knack for articulating the big picture by demonstrating evidence with specific examples
•Digital Evangelist – shares passion and customer-obsession to inspire and motivate team members
•Global business experience and comfort working with remote and distributed teams
•Master's degree in applicable discipline is desired