Digital and IT Director

Job Summary

At Suntory Beverage and Food, we boldly move forward together to realize the dreams of becoming a world-leading next-generation global beverage company – you are an important part of this and here’s how your role helps us win.

Suntory Beverage & Food Thailand Co., Ltd. (SBFT) was established in 1974 when the first factory opened in Nonthaburi Province and expanded production capacity to support the rapid growth and demand for products in the market by building new factories at Laem Chabang Industrial Estate and Pinthong Industrial Estate in Chonburi Province. In 1990, the company became as part of the Suntory Group, which invested heavily in manufacturing technology and brought its own history of innovating healthy beverage, food and supplement products, and bringing them successfully to market.

The SBF Thailand BU Digital & IT leader is responsible for providing leadership, oversight and direction of the strategic Digital & technology agenda for the Suntory Beverages & Food Thailand. As the company transforms its business model to prepare for growth, the Digital & IT function serves as a catalyst for change, through deployment & utilization of technology. The role is the senior most technology professional in the BU and will report to the Asia Pacific Chief Digital & Information Officer and will lead a team of 10 people based in Thailand. 

The BU Digital IT leader will act as a strategic business partner for the SBF Thailand Leadership team to drive alignment and prioritization of all technology initiatives with the core business priorities with particular focus on delivering all Gemba facing tech projects on the ground. 

The role will partner with other functional leaders to simplify and digitize the ways of working in different functions, while being fully aligned with the SBF International technology and architecture choices. The role will be a member of the regional Digital-IT leadership team and the extended global Digital IT leadership team and will contribute actively to shape the company’s Digital -IT strategy and roadmap.

Job Responsibilities

Digitise the Front End: Enabling the front line to deliver growth with focus on commercial & sales digitization and marketing technologies 
Digital Employee Experience: Elevating the employee experience through frictionless and modern end user technologies 
Data & Analytics: Power decision making with modern and boundaryless data products
Automation & AI:  Driving enterprise-wide efficiencies and scale with automation & AI
Operational Excellence: E2E ownership for IT operational excellence to ensure outstanding reliability in the make, pack, ship and sell platforms. She/ he will partner closely with the global cyber-security leader to ensure that there is 100% compliance to global security standards on the ground 
 

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• at least 15+ years of IT leadership experience with a global or multinational company and/or an organization known for its leadership in leveraging technology to drive business results. 
• Strong technical mastery 
• A strategic thinker and yet will be a hands-on modern technologist and will have led the rollout of impactful technology strategies and programs. She/he will have a track record of results implementing these strategies successfully across in a live business unit
• The ideal candidate is grounded and in touch with a strong “gemba” orientation and will bring an entrepreneurial approach to driving the Digital & IT with a “Yatte Minahare” spirit. This individual must possess strong collaboration and influencing skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders to drive technology enabled transformation.
• A strong track record of managing large technology budgets. She/ he should be comfortable in working in a multi-cultural environment