Digital Succes Manager

About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

Information Systems department

Umicore’s commitment to creating a sustainable future relies on innovation in all areas of business. As we keep pushing our boundaries and strive to set new industry standards, embracing advanced technologies has never been more essential. Digital technologies are constantly evolving and present new opportunities for us. As next generation corporate IT department, we design & deliver the digital foundation that powers the business in their ambitions. Our Architecture, Project Manager & PMO team We recently reformed our IT organization and bundled forces by combining Architecture and Project Management & PMO in 1 a cross functional entity, a focused group to support BU, IT growth and transformation initiatives. In order to take our next steps, we are looking for a strong and enthusiastic team member that will be tuning in to our business units to map and support their long term digital ambitions by combining business insights and technology.

What you will be doing

Your contribution within this team:

• Be partnering with our business units, identifying their needs and guiding them end-to-end in their digital transformation from ideation, business case to projects and successful implementations.

• Take the lead in projects, collaborating actively with our Business Units and IT teams, translating business requirements into technical requirements for our SMEs, fit-for purpose.

• Make project handshakes including planning’s, budgets and scopes and will be held responsible to follow them up throughout the projects and host steerco meetings.

• Identify similar functional fits, overlaps and synergies amongst our different BU’s and steer to converge in a limited and controlled set of solutions. By maintaining and adopting portfolio management.

• Keep up to date with the latest digital technologies.

• Participate in specific business adoption and related change handling.

• Understand and translate the strategy of our Business Units into an analytical roadmap, link to the architecture and governance standards.

• You will be based in Hoboken, occasional travel to other Umicore sites (national and international) might be needed.

Who we are looking for 

 • Master degree in field of IT/Business Economics with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a similar function.

• Strong skills in creating and managing project and program plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies.

• Experience in leading projects and are used to work in a waterfall and Agile context and proven interest in the area of data Management.

• Affinity with and interest in a broad range of (digital) technologies.

• Experience in end-to-end business process modeling and business process management.

• Good overall knowledge of IT infrastructure & IT security concepts and able to analyze & apply policies. 

 • Strong interpersonal skills including teamwork, issue resolution, negotiation, and relationship management.

• Clear and crisp communication skills, including the ability to present business and technical issues, ideas, and recommendations clearly in verbal, written and presentation formats.