Guinness Nigeria Plc Recruiting for GDBS Service Delivery Lead - DIAGEO

AutoReqId: 55560BR
Function: GDBS
Reports To: The Business Relationship Manager

Context/Scope
The Africa region comprise of four strategic business units - Africa Regional Markets , East Africa, Nigeria and Brandhouse. This role covers Nigeria business unit. There are a total of 3 sites with 1,200 users.
 
The Diageo GDBS function has outsourced technical infrastructure services to TCS, SAP applications support to Infosys and network support to Verizon, as well as other applications to CSC. There are other local partners/providers that support some locally based systems. The role of the Service Delivery Lead, Service Management is to maintain business as usual support for Nigeria business unit, either through Diageo Shared Service and/or our service partners / providers.
This role is concerned with IS Service Management and Service Delivery. A core element of this role is to support the operational activities related to technical infrastructure services in the 3 Nigerian sites. This will primarily be achieved by working with our main support partners/providers as well as local providers.

The role requires that the IS operating model, based around a set of common IS processes, is enforced. Brilliant execution of the Delivery processes (e.g. Services, GDBS Projects underpinned by the Global Support Model) is critical, and these are delivered through a global organization that integrates across external service providers to service business unit needs. The scope of the Service Delivery organization is estimated at around 70% of total GDBS investment. A customer focused mind-set is an absolute prerequisite to this role.

Purpose of Role

• The primary function of this role is to ensure that effective management of local and central systems takes place.
• This person will be responsible for the delivery of all supporting IS Services within the business unit and to defined SLAs.
• This person will be responsible for delivering small change initiatives and/or projects to aid service delivery.

Market Complexity:

• Strong Service Level management skills
• Good understanding of Diageo business processes and strategic business drivers
• Management of local and central Partners to support Infrastructure and Applications
• Ensure agreed service levels and KPI’s are consistently delivered
• Working knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley requirements
• Knowledge or certification of ITIL processes
• Regional alignment across Africa
• Strong business partnering skills
• Average project management knowledge or skills

Top 4 Accountabilities

• Achieve all committed Service Level Agreements
• Establish a trusted face of GDBS
• Support management of local and central IS Support partners (Accenture, Verizon, CSC, IBM etc)
• Delivery of small, local Change Requests

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Bachelors Degree in a Technical Service or Business discipline
• 5+ years in IS within the consumer packaged goods or IS services industry experience
• Business Literate (“good understanding of our business”)
• Strong organizational & customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment
• Ability to manage own time, numerous demands and prioritize tasks
• Communication skills with the ability to effectively and simply communicate technical concepts, solutions and implications in a business language
• Self-directed and focused on a goal or end-state as opposed to specific tasks
• Fluency in English language.
• Proven track record of similar job experience in IT/FMCG industry