Digital Technologies Manager

**Job Overview**: - Strategic Business Leader driving change and transformation within Royal Canin in South Africa for Emerging & Seeds Region. - Partners with Global, Regional and Functional Royal Canin leaders to define the South Africa Digital Strategy and portfolio of high business value change initiatives. - Helps to drive speed and focus through building mutual partnerships across Digital Technology towers and influencing key stakeholders across Royal Canin and Petcare. - Is accountable for all Digital Technologies deliveries within Royal Canin in South Africa for Emerging & Seeds Region. **Context and Scope**: - The role looks after Royal Canin in South Africa for Emerging & Seeds region, the market is key for the region because the organization has just changed. - The roles defines & delivers a digital transformation that create business values as part of South Africa Transformation. - The main counterparts in South Africa are Market GM & his leadership team. - The main counterparts in Digital Technologies are leaders of the various functional/technology towers. **What will be your key responsibilities?**: Strategic Leadership - ** Segment Alignment**:Defines & owns the Digital Technologies strategy within the context of Royal Canin in South Africa for Emerging & Seeds Region strategy. - ** Disrupt with Digital**: Brings to life within the region business value delivery through digital capabilities. - ** Digital Mindset**: Drives the usage of the Mars Digital Flywheel and underlying methodologies including usage of test & learn approach, user centricity, data & analytics, and automation. - ** External Perspective**:Brings the "outside-In" by maintaining an external network of digital professionals to deliver value faster. Contributes to build Mars Digital branding externally. Delivering Change - ** Strategy Delivery**:Accountable and acts as escalation point for South Africa and Emerging & Seeds region Digital Technologies strategy delivery (on time, in scope, on budget). - ** Business Transformation**:Organize and Deliver multi-years, large scale programs to deliver efficiency, growth and people engagement. - ** Capability Adoption**:Drives the continuous adoption of Digital & Technologies capabilities within South Africa. Operational Excellence - ** Rationalization**:Continuously challenge the status quo to drive opportunities to standardize and rationalize IT Landscape**.**: - ** Budget**:co-accountable with Mars Digital Technologies S&F for Total DT Costs for geography and ensure to achieve Business Targets. **What are we looking for?**: - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent (DT Degree preferred) - 4 to 5 years working in a Digital Tech related role - Must be customer focused with demonstrated ability to form productive relationship including business leaders, DT personnel and project leaders - Story Telling skills - Understanding of business drivers / processes and ability to relate segment priorities to associated technology - Ability to educate non-digitally savvy leadership & staff - Learning agility and desire to learn new technology and business - Excellent written and verbal skills as well as high interpersonal skills - Experience working across multiple levels of an organization - Strong problem analysis, negotiating and influencing skills. - Should have a proven track record of delivering results in some of the following three areas: Project delivery, Program Management, Senior Management exposure - Proven track record to get things done in a matrixed organization and influencing without authority **What can you expect from Mars?**: - Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles. - Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. - Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. - An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.