Job Description

Responsibilities: Coordinate and align IT strategy towards business strategies and enterprise transformation activities whilst ensuring compliance to IT strategies, policies, standards, practices, financial and procurement. Communicate and maintain objectives, accountabilities, and monitoring of progress as appropriate throughout the organization. Monitor the delivery of objectives which feed back into the strategic planning process. Monitor IT expenditure and identifies where costs may exceed planned budget and provides timely reports, ensuring that all financial targets can be met. Investigate any areas where actual or forecast expenditure deviates from budgets by more than agreed tolerances. Develop and implement effective financial controls and decision-making processes for IT Department. Oversee suppliers' contractual obligations and the fulfilment of their contractual obligations as per the agreed terms and conditions. Monitor and challenge supplier performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Undertake comprehensive contract and supplier evaluations to confirm achievement of business objectives and value for money of contracts. Support and engage with stakeholders throughout all stages of the contract lifecycle and ensure continuous improvements are identified and initiated. Identify changes, evaluate impact, and advises stakeholders about the implications and consequences regarding the procurement and financial elements of IT programs and projects. Use agreed tools, templates, and standards to articulate and agree measures in collaboration with clients/users. Create specification of the rules and the data required for a metric and details the relevance of the metric to departments and to the organization. Provide advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Use appropriate selection criteria, evaluate methods and tools, as directed, and tailor them in line with agreed policies and standards.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or bachelors degree any Business discipline. 8 years IT experience within Oil & Gas industry with specific experience establishing IT Systems and Applications. Good working experience within Finance and Supply management solutions. Understanding of standard contracting procedures and experience in the development and negotiation of an SLA. Ability to analyze organizational objectives, issues, and opportunities. Understanding of how IT should be embedded to support and address such opportunities. Ability to build high-level plans for IT change programs. Awareness of applying standards, practices, codes, and assessment and certification programs relevant to the IT industry. Familiarity with IT/IS infrastructure, IT applications and service processes. Compliance towards IT and business continuity risks, and their mitigation. Willing to relocate to Qatar? Location

Doha, Qatar