Head - Digital Transformation - Metal & Mining Sector

Department/Project: Head Digital

Reporting to: CTO

Job Purpose:

Responsible for coordinating and monitoring the overall progress of all the digital initiatives, including ensuring cross-department coordination, vendor on-boarding and implementation scheduling, controlling deadlines and preparation of update reports for the senior management.

Experience:

- 10+ Years of experience in managing large scale transformation projects, preferably in manufacturing set-up

- Prior experience and knowledge of Metal and Mining operations

- Familiarity with change management principles and vendor evaluation process

Key Accountabilities: -

Change Impact Analysis

- Accepts, prioritizes, and categorizes change requests

- Conducts function and department specific analysis to identify key areas of intervention

- Develops targeted interventions to ensure business goals are clearly communicated to all levels across the organization.

- Drives user adoption of different digital platforms and technologies by conducting

Project Planning and scheduling :

- Work closely with project sponsors and process owners to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan and budget for all the digital initiatives.

- Ensure that required assistance is provided to the process owners to translate project objectives into functional targets

- Ensure scoping takes into place both financial and technical considerations, including IT system coherence.

- Ensure coordination between cross-project activities to avoid duplication of efforts.

Project Monitoring and governance :

- Develop program assessment protocols and project tracking template to monitor the progress of all initiatives

- Ensure adherence to timelines in line with the scope and deliverables of each project.

Executive-Level Reporting :

- Provide accurate and timely reporting to the senior management in regards to the program status across the project lifecycle

- Develop and report an escalation matrix in order to ensure timely reporting of any issues

Risk Assessment :

- Work with project sponsors and process owners to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department

- Perform root cause analysis of various delays/deviations and arrive on corrective action for the same

Innovation :

- Conduct knowledge transfer sessions with the TML workforce

- Define and document big data best practices and data standards

Additional Information:

Skills & Competencies:

- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures

- Ability to deal positively with stakeholders across different levels

- Strong communication skills

Key Performance Indicators:

- % Adherence to timelines

- % Missed Milestones

- % of Projects competed on time

- % Budget Spent

- Cost Variance (Planned Budget vs actual Budget)

- Satisfaction level of project sponsors

- %adherence to SLAs

Important:

Preference: Female candidates

Ideally having experience in working with companies like Jindal, Vendanta, Srikalahasthi Electrosteel, Electroterm and Rashmi metaliks (Last priority)

Key incumbent requirements :

- Bachelors degree or Master's degree in business or related field

- Preference to be given to PMP or CMP certified professionals

Required Qualification:

Graduation - Bachelor of Engineering - Bachelor of Technology (B.E./B.Tech.). in Other - Not Required Per/CGPA

Note: Bachelors degree or Master's degree in business or related field & Preference to be given to PMP or CMP certified professionals

Mandatory Skills:

Digital, Change Impact Analysis, Project Planning and scheduling, Project Monitoring and governance, Risk Assessment, large scale transformation projects, Metal and Mining operations, digital initiatives, cross-department coordination, vendor on-boarding, vendor evaluation, mining sector, technology leadership

Additional Skills:

Communication Skills, Executive-Level Reporting, innovation management, monitoring, coordination skills, pmp certification, cmp