Information Technology Manager

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Job Description


JOB ROLE REQUIREMENTS QUALIFICATIONS

  • Recognized degree or equivalent
  • ITIL Service management Basic Guidelines for IT Services and Management
EXPERIENCE
  • 5 Years in IT Management
  • Experience in dealing with teams within a geographical and technical complex environment
  • Work experience within the retail and manufacturing environment (desirable) would be an
advantageKNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to conduct research into issues and products as required
  • Ability to make fast and logical decisions
  • Ability to handle constantly changing flow of requests, multitask during busy times and remain
productive during slow times
  • Take ownership and responsibility of issues from start through to successful resolution
  • Understanding of Active Directory
  • Hands-on experience with computer networks, network administration and network installations
  • Ability to manage personnel and the ability to work with or without direct supervision
  • Friendly presence, helpful attitude, and ability to work in a team environment
SKILLS REQUIRED
  • IT Security
  • Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and Windows 10/11
  • Microsoft 365 as a suite (Office, SharePoint, Teams etc)
  • Excellent knowledge of technical management, information analysis and computer
hardware/software systemsJOB ACTIVITIES
1. Role-Specific Strategy:
  • Assist and involved in IT strategy development
  • Actively implement IT strategy Architecture:
  • Ensure alignment with the overall IT strategy
  • Manage the environmental changes
  • Own the IT architecture: Application, Infrastructure, and Information Governance
  • Compliance
  • Setting and enforcement of policies and procedures
  • Change management
  • ITIL and best-practice alignment
  • Audit engagement Business Systems
  • Troubleshooting
  • Operational excellence
  • Liaise with user community and application owners around performance and variation
requests
  • SLA Management: Performance, Availability and Capacity Planning
  • Attend and participate in user forums Infrastructure and Operations:
  • Networking
  • Assists in the planning and implementation of additions, deletions, and major
modifications to the supporting infrastructure company wide
  • Implement network security at the corporate level as established by corporate Security
Director
  • Telephony o Printer and Telephony Service Providers
  • Service Desk (Mostly EOH, Matrix and Reflex) o Coordinates the resolution of all corporate
help desk activities.
  • SLA monitoring
  • Fault escalation & business feedback
  • Asset Management o Helps decide, in conjunction with corporate leadership, which
software and hardware products and other equipment are most suited for use within the
companys infrastructure o
  • Oversees IT-related asset purchases on a company-wide basis
  • Manages software licenses on a company-wide basis
  • Business case development
  • Staying abreast of technology and technology development applicable to the company
  • Supplier Management
  • End-user computing
  • Back-office environment
2. Career Path Communication:
  • Ensure effective department-wide communication with all staff
  • Serves as key participant in team meetings
  • Confronts issues openly and quickly
  • Effectively communicates relevant IT-related information to superiors and peers
  • Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and
respect for the individual Management
  • Serves as focal point for all inter-office IT-related matters company-wide
  • Ensures that appropriate network managers are monitoring, analysing, and evaluating
performance and working on resolution of identified degradation trends and problem areas
(Performance Management).
  • Ensures that support for around-the-clock information transfer, storage, and processing is
timely, efficient and meets the service levels required.
  • Assist with IT staffing and budgeting projections on a company-wide basis.
  • Supplier management and procurement of IT and related
3. Professional Qualities Leadership:
  • Direct a team and instil confidence
  • Identify opportunities for change and convey the need for change Teamwork
  • Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring
their ideas and career plans to fruition
  • Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute
responsibilities
  • Works across practice to share lessons learned and best practices Client Management
  • Anticipates internal clients needs and proposes alternative business solutions
  • Continually seeks and capitalizes upon opportunities to increase internal client satisfaction
and deepen client relationships 4. Organisational Responsibilities Internal Operations
  • Easy recognise areas for internal improvement and develop plans for implementation
  • Lends expertise to internal teams and task forces
  • Reviews the status reports of team members across projects and addresses issues as
appropriate
  • Complies with and enforces standard company policies and procedure

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1338484
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned