Group IT Technical Manager

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Job Title Group IT Technical Manager
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / Site Woodmead
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa

Job Description:

Specialist chemicals company domiciled in South Africa, is looking to employ a Group IT Technical Manager to work in Woodmead.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
• Provide IT technical and IT services management to support other group entities.
• Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Manage security across all aspect of the business user base.
• Management of and monitoring of IT governance controls.
• Assessing quotes for IT purchases and maintaining control over payment of invoices.
• Identify opportunities for enhanced and improved usage of current systems.
• Identify opportunities for Business units to utilize new technologies.
• Resource planning using outsourced services providers, other functional support and limited business resources.
• Liaise and negotiate with IT suppliers and external customers. Liaison also extends to handling customer complaints regarding system availability and network issues.
• Manage infrastructure and support costs.
• Reporting to the Group IT Manager.

Qualifications & Experience

• IT degree or practical IT support experience in a similar environment for at least 8 years and more than 6 years relevant experience.
• Technical qualification in Cisco and Riverbed infrastructure applications.
• Proven competencies of systems and business procedures.
• Broad knowledge of business needs relating to IT requirements.
• Capable of demonstrating a specialist knowledge in the use of IT supported Systems workgroup systems.

Competencies

• Communication skills.
• Problem solving.
• Attention to detail.
• Work standards.
• Reliability and deadline driven.
• Team work.
• Planning and organizing.
 
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Hi there,

Are you looking for someone to manage a support team or for someone to do the actual support?

Thanks,
 
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