IT Business Partner for Professional Staffing

The Adecco Group is the world’s leading HR solutions partner. We provide more than 700,000 people with permanent and flexible employment every day. With more than 34,000 employees in 60 countries, we transform the world of work one job at a time. Our colleagues serve more than 100,000 organisations with the talent, HR services and cutting-edge technology they need to succeed in an ever-changing global economy.  As a Fortune Global 500 company, we lead by example, creating shared value that meets social needs while driving business innovation. Our culture of inclusivity, fairness and teamwork empowers individuals and organisations, fuels economies, and builds better societies. These values resonate with our employees, who voted us number 7 on the Great Place to Work® - World’s Best Workplaces 2020 list.  We make the future work for everyone.

The Adecco Group is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Adecco Group AG is registered in Switzerland (ISIN: CH0012138605) and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN). The group is powered by eight lead brands: Adecco, Modis, Badenoch + Clark, Spring Professional, Lee Hecht Harrison, Pontoon, Adia and General Assembly.

Flexible, Europe based

• Be the IT leader accountable for delivering the IT Strategy to our Global Businesses for Professional staffing and in particular our Permanent Placement global businesses,
• Build and manage strategic relationships between IT and the senior business global leaders for our professional businesses and more particularly our Perm business,
• Provide advice, consultancy, guidance and knowledge on what are the more appropriate IT answers to their respective scopes,
• Determine IT solutions according to IT standards. Ensure IT Solutions to support business processes are harmonized. 
• Drive IT Global Roll Out plan in coordination with Global IT and IT Regional teams.

• Act as a single point of contact for the global business stakeholders on all IT related needs
• Be responsible for capturing and the key business requirements.
• Organize requirements inclusion in the relevant IT products / road maps and in coordination with regional teams
• Liaise with IT Solution Delivery teams and IT Architecture to determine the relevant IT solutions to support business requirements
• Act as a representative of the global IT in local / regional / global requirements meetings on the areas where the Global Business needs to influence and translate into IT requirements / language
• Ensure, when appropriate, the implementation of the defined, global KPIs for the ROI measurement of the solutions
• Provide IT consultancy where needed or find the related resources to do so
• Help the Global business understand the technology landscape / stack on a particular Region / Country
• Help the business articulate / capture the value of the Global IT initiatives and identify opportunities
• Support the creation of the Business Cases for the IT related initiatives
• Support the business to comply with the other IT processes
• Authority to give the Go / No Go decision on projects, liaising with regional IT and consistently with the IT Governance
• Recommend and suggest changes in Business Processes 
• Hold Regular status meetings – one view of all IT initiatives related to the Client Experience transformation program
• Help the business navigate the complexity of the IT organization

• University degree preferably in a business or technical subject or any comparable education
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Management position of comparable complexity in large and international organizations,
• 3 years’ experience in the staffing industry with a proven understanding of the staffing industry, its opportunities and challenges.
• Ability to explain complex, technical matters in a simple ‘language’
• Delivering to, and successful management of, stakeholder expectations whilst working in a fast-paced environment and to tight deadlines, budgets and resources
• Recognized achievement in delivering to a strategic agenda
• Ability to build pro-active, co-operative working relationships with customers, peers and key stakeholders based on respect and cooperation.
• Strong executive presence with excellent oral and written presentation skills and ability to communicate and influence at all levels.
• Ability to meet aggressive deadlines, under pressure and while working in a fast paced, demanding environment.
• Good in leadership, developing team members by inspiring, encouraging and providing constructive criticism to help improve performance
• Able to evaluate information, identify key issues and formulate conclusions based on sound, practical judgment, experience and common sense
• Positively influencing key decision makers / stakeholders of a large multi-faceted enterprise organization
• Willingness and ability to travel, 50% of the time
• Good to excellent command of English

This job advert is posted by Adecco Group AG with registered address at Bellerivestrasse 30, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland. www.adeccogroup.com