Strategy and Projects Chicago, IL Temporarily Remote **IT Solutions and Delivery Manager** Blueair and Pureit, as part of Unilever Water and Air Wellness, are rapidly growing global brands with rocketlike potential. At Blueair we believe that the freedom to breathe clean air is a basic right, and we fight for that right around the world. Pureit is a world leader in sustainable water purification providing healthy and safe drinking water for millions of people around the world. Together, we have built a team of thinkers, dreamers, and doers who are passionate about our impactful products. At Unilever Water and Air Wellness, we strive to gain and support the next generation of innovators in the market. We are seeking to add to our entrepreneurial culture and team with an **IT Solutions and Delivery Manager.** *Offices in Chicago and NYC but open to employees in IL, IN, WI, CA, NY, NJ.* **Position Description**: The IT Solutions and Delivery Manager will be aligned with our key business processes and play an integral role on cross-functional teams (I.E. Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Sales) to set our technology strategy and agenda. Reporting to the Head of Strategy, IT, and Projects, this role will be supporting the business to innovate and create business gains, reducing complexity, and increasing capabilities. All while keeping security, privacy, and controls top of mind. To be successful as an IT Solutions & Delivery Manager at Unilever WAW
- *You love to win, and have fun doing it:** modeling success and fulfillment, achieving satisfaction by helping others develop and win.
- *You are an innovator:** bringing an outside in perspective on technology and promote a culture of innovation in the team, with a focus to drive business benefit and passion for technology
- *You are a dot connector:** taking knowingly and unknowingly complicated business problems and solving them with existing technology or innovation.
- *You are a change maker:** Given the rapid pace of change in our portfolio, the S&D Manager needs to partner with team members to inspire change in the way we lead the business and to ensure we grow in an innovative, profitable, and sustainable way.
**Responsibilities and Functions**:
- Standardize the design governance process across Unilever WAW North America
- Lead the Enterprise architecture team on solutions and recommendations.
- Simplify the landscape with repeatable and reusable solutions.
- Ensuring platform and all design adopt and follow consistent design processes. With security and privacy controls at the forefront of all decisions
- Lead security and privacy control and bring to the forefront of all decisions
- Solution design considering all aspects of solutions Application, technology, data, integration, infrastructure, and security.
- Drive the design discussion and review/approve the high-level solution design documents with team
- Drive the discussion on non-functional requirements and solutions
- Provide the multiple solution options and lead solution recommendation to complex business requirements
- Drive the decision making on solution options with multiple stakeholder (including Senior Leadership)
- Application Design and Development
- *Qualifications:**
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 3-5 years of experience working in IT
- Minimum 2 years of experience with managing requirements for IT Solutions
- Knowledge of areas such as software development lifecycle, IT strategy, IT process excellence, six sigma, IT portfolio management, ERP packages.
- Experience in NetSuite and SFCC preferred.
- Is familiar with aspects of Application Support & Maintenance and Service Delivery.
- Possesses up to date knowledge of significant areas of operational and/or development environments.
- Shows a thorough understanding of applicable project management and/or operational management standards and procedures including technical, quality, safety and financial matters across all areas of service delivery.
- Displays self-motivation to drive the various topic of solution
- Can spot design related risk and highlight in advance to business
- Demonstrates the ability to make, and take responsibility for, sound and far-reaching decisions on major complex requirements.
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly communicate results and implications
- Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment
- *Unilever COVID-19 Vaccination Policy:**
For office-based, Research & Development, and remote positions, proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to be eligible for employment. Religious and/or medical accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis. **About the Company:** We are looking to add to our entrepreneurial culture and team. Here, employees are challenged to perform at a high level while helping the company grow and are given the opportunity to excel and grow themselves. Blueair, Inc. is constantly in pursuit of opportunities that strengthen our cause to support and enhance the education and betterment of air pollution for all people around the world.
- *Our Take on Leadership:**
- *Growth Mindset:** This is competitive leadership. Taking the lead in the marketplace versus following. It’s a positive attitude about the company’s future glass half-full but it’s realistic. It’s passion for winning. Winning defined as gaining market share. It’s placing a fresh emphasis on innovation challenging the status quo.
- *Consumer and Customer Focus:** This is purpose-driven leadership. It’s externally focused on consumers, on customers. First take care of consumers and customers; financial performance will follow. It’s a heightened passion for the consumer: I firmly believe in improving the lives of consumers. It’s bringing the voice of the consumer and the customer into everything we do. It’s seeing our brands through their eyes.
- *Bias for action:** This is action-driven leadership: “This is what I will do.” It’s speed and sense of urgency in making decisions. But it needs to be thoughtful action, intelligent risk-taking. Also, it’s not wasting time on bureaucracy its output that counts. And its simplifying my agenda, carefully choosing priorities and not taking on too much.
- *Accountability and Responsibility:** This is performance-driven leadership. “I will deliver against KPIs, holding myself to the highest standards. I will also hold other people accountable first by setting clear expectations and then by telling them if they are on the right path. It’s staring reality in the eye doing it with numbers. It’s taking responsibility for Unilever’s overall performance, not just by delivering my results but by helping other people deliver their results. Finally, its personally driving change and using operational discipline to deliver on the promise.
- *Building Talent and Teams:** This is people-driven leadership. It’s passion for people. It’s having the best people in the right positions, whatever the person’s gender or background. It’s giving people plenty of room to do their part and recognizing them for their contributions. It’s investing in people’s development giving them feedback and challenging work. Its also constantly challenging myself to grow and improve. And it’s building aligned, cohesive teams that pull together to win.
- If you consider yourself a go-getter who loves to #win, and someone who loves to have fun, then we may have the job for you.*
- Blueair is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. You will be considered for this position based upon your experience and education, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, ancestry; marital, disabled, or veteran status.*
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