IT and Business Systems Manager

We are currently recruiting for an experienced IT and Business Systems Manager.

In this leadership role, you will manage a small yet dynamic and high performing team. You'll be responsible for running the IT operations in the UK & Ireland, as well as locally designing, building and deploying technology initiatives, such as M3, Dynamics CRM, network & infrastructure, end user compute and cyber requirements.

Dedicated in delivering high quality IT services to our end users and stakeholders, the role aims at ensuring a modern IT environment for our business, working closely with our MSP and key partners across the organisation.

This role will be hybrid: the offices include Snodland and Whistable in Kent, Wednesbury and Ashby. There is an office in Bray in Ireland.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of IT professionals dedicated to UK&I businesses & related projects.
• Oversee the successful delivery of our MSP, including Governance, Issue Management and day to day operation
• Responsible for the successful delivery and integration of our systems and platforms (Dynamics CRM, M3, Epicore, Avante).
• Leading, planning and managing internal staff, external consultants, and corporate resources or SMEs.
• Supervise, design and configure End to End development tasks, including business process optimisation and information management required for the design and roll out to be successful.
• Accountable for supporting systems change management, communications and training in new tools and processes.
• Project Management and leadership for the efficient running of our IT Projects, making a critical link between the Global Systems teams and the local organisation to ensure smooth deployment and ongoing use of this business critical platform.
• Business Partnering day to day with key stakeholders.
• Local IT assets, infrastructure and end user compute oversight.
• Reporting to both Senior management team meetings and Group reviews of project status, implementation plans, resource management and budgetary control

Essential experience:

• Strong ERP capabilities M3 or SAP, D365
• Minimum five years' experience running IT operations
• Minimum three years' experience overseeing ERP systems and IT project implementation
• Minimum three years' managing and leading a team
• Previous experience with Project Management & Solution delivery - reporting to Director level

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, information systems, computer science or related field

Competencies required

• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks and projects
• Solid working knowledge of manufacturing and business operations
• Systems and business design
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Solution oriented

We offer

At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterised by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organisational culture with short decision making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.

About Swegon Group

Swegon Group, owned by the Stockholm Stock Exchange listed Investment AB Latour, is a market leading provider of a healthy indoor climate, with solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimisation, as well as connected services and technical expertise. Swegon has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide and 17 production units in Europe, North America, and India. The company has approximately 3,000 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 6 billion in 2022.