Location: Bangalore
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Background
iOps puts customers at the heart of our business operations so we win with customers in the marketplace.
We are removing complexity, integrating our processes, and delivering the data, insights, and technology we need to create a great customer experience, while the world moves into the digital era. Simplifying operational tasks frees our time and resources to unlock growth for Unilever and more value for our customers and our partners.
The acceleration of iOps has bought forward the opportunity for this exciting role, and we are looking for #gamechangers, if you have a growth mind-set, are a fast learner, comfortable working with change & ambiguity and are customer focused this could be the opportunity for you!
Main purpose of job:
The delivery of IT agenda for Integrated operations is dependent on multiple IT platforms and Global Bill 2 Cash is one of those. The platform delivers strategic and global IT solutions for end-to-end Bill to Cash cycle aligned to the iOps ways of working. Some of these solutions are Pega, High Radius. Aligned to the iOps roadmap, we are delivering these solutions across markets globally and the scale of our operations plus user base is expanding with each business go live. To ensure that we are able to scale in a sustainable manner without causing any disruption to iOps roadmap, stability of technology platforms and IT operations needs to be considered as a key priority for the platform.
Most of the practices / processes needed to ensure the above are either initiated fresh and some might be yet to be initiated. All the B2C technologies being in nascent stage, its also important to understand the purpose of each and every IT practice needed as part of the portfolio. Deliver stable IT platform and operations to support the iOps global delivery by scaling up the platform operations with the help of fit to purpose and cost-effective IT practices is the main purpose of this job.
Key accountabilities:
Building better service experience for Bill To Cash IT Products in Unilever
Innovate, identify and execute workstreams to stabilize past implementations
Fast track Unilever innovation journey for IT Product organization
Setup a framework to work towards measurable outcomes towards building better Product experience
Platform Management
The technology solutions delivered are part of O2C application suite.
The various IT practices like Change & Release Management, IT Security & Access Management, Performance, Data Volume Management etc. needed to deliver a stable and future ready IT platform, to be established and governed
Supplier management – to ensure that team is equipped with the right set of resources required to run the platform
Budget management – for various IT practices and innovations within Platform management like automated testing, DevOps practices etc. to make the operations more robust
Output of this practice should be a resilient and future ready platform for onboarding new applications and markets
Application Maintenance
Establish and govern, Fit to Purpose AM practices to ensure the following:
AM team is adequately sized to resolve the existing incident base and can cater to the upcoming volumes of incidents with onboarding of new markets
SLA compliance in line with the service criticality of the applications in scope of the platform
Cross platform governance to ensure that the issues with integrated applications like ECC, ACTPM, Mulesoft, Dell Boomi etc. are not making the O2C applications unusable
Governance forums with the business units, O2C hubs to ensure user satisfaction of the application functionality and experience
Establish a “Technology with Purpose” model to ensure that the business users are delivered with at least the acceptable value perceived from the technology investment and at the same time ensure complete service performance compliance as per Unilever standards
Supplier Management – to ensure that the platform is equipped with the right supplier base required to support our applications in the longer term. Derive the short- and long-term supplier strategies in line with Unilever supplier policies
Budget Management to ensure adequate funding is available to support the procurement of various IT components like subscription, recurring licenses and support services, required to run our applications.
Budget management would also include demand forecasting, working with finance business partners to ensure timely approvals, spends projection, tracking and delivering committed financial savings to the finance partners
The output of this practice should be resilient and stable applications targeted towards delivering the required technology value at the most optimal cost
Service Delivery
Establish and govern, Fit to purpose Service Delivery practices to ensure the following:
Application life cycle management – starting from Service Introduction (inclusive of process like criticality, IT security assessment etc) to creating a service model, establishing service acceptance criteria, keeping the application status updated in CMDB and decommissioning of the service.
Governance around onboarding new features and markets to an application. This would include practices like Service rehearsal, operational acceptance, periodic governance etc.
Governance to ensure all the platform services are free from any potential vulnerability. Any such vulnerabilities should be tracker, reviewed and mitigated in a timely manner
Governance to ensure any service downtimes etc. for activities like upgrades and other maintenance windows are planned in advance and the required downtime windows are aligned with required stakeholders
Act as a single point of contact between the various IT platforms and business users to ensure that anything needed to run the service is well managed and the users are informed about any such impacts on service availability in a timely manner.
Experience and qualifications required:
Overall 10+ years of experience in IT of which 5+ years of experience working on Application Maintenance, Service Delivery, and IT Platform Management
Bachelors in engineering (or equivalent), Computer Science required, and Masters/MBA preferred
Experience building and managing high performing teams and design/delivery of quality AM and SD practices
Ability to work with multiple cultures, both within team and stakeholders
Good domain knowledge to be able to work with Platform Directors, and Global Stakeholders to ensure alignment within and outside Unilever IT organizations.
Conversant with budgeting practices & governance
DevOps framework
Key interfaces
Counterparts in various IT platforms like ERP, Integration, Customer Development, Supply Chain etc
Business stakeholders across globe
Finance business partners
Suppliers
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