IT Director Europe

Your mission:

As a successful candidate for the IT Director role at Epson Europe, your primary responsibility will be to lead the development of a mid to long-term strategy that aligns with our mission and goals. Your focus will be on driving functional performance while fostering a culture that embodies the values inherent in the Seiko Epson Group Management Philosophy, as well as the corresponding corporate policy and behavioural principles.

You will closely collaborate with senior stakeholders, playing a key role in providing vision and leadership. Your tasks include shaping the IT strategy and ensuring the seamless alignment of IT activities with the business's needs.

In this role, as the head of both strategic and operational IT teams, you will oversee initiatives aimed at delivering excellent support to the business. Your contributions will drive continuous improvement in service, risk management, and actively support the achievement of business goals. If you are a skilled IT professional with strategic leadership experience, we invite you to join us in this critical position as we elevate our IT capabilities to support Epson's mission and objectives.

What you will do:

• Create and execute a medium to long term strategic plan for the IT function that aligns with the business plan and set clear objectives and goals for the function centrally and locally
• Responsible for defining and leading the information security strategy, fostering innovation to drive current and future technology solutions across the organisation
• Define and lead information security standards, governance, policies, information security guidelines, information governance, security and information governance
• With the IT leadership team develop and implement the specialist strategies ensuring process excellence both in central and local teams to support the growth of the business
• Responsible for senior level decision making and both day to day management and enabling of the strategic direction of the IT function at a local and central level
• Act as the key interface with Seiko Epson Corporation for the IT function
• Partner with other functions to develop and drive a cohesive strategy and the technology designed to deliver the business requirements and ensure effective IT support to achieve the business growth
• Analyse and recommend budgets and headcounts and effectively monitor resource
• Identify risks and develop appropriate measures to resolve the current issues and perceived future issues in order to contain risks, including enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plans and proactive focus on cyber security
• Ensure central and local IT teams are working to best industry practice and are operationally compliant with regulatory bodies in line with legislation across Europe and reporting effectively to accountable government and regulatory bodies
• Lead the team towards meeting annual objectives, holding team members to a high standard of excellence and accountability identifying and developing talent
• Develop external relationships (with suppliers, regulatory bodies) so that excellent support and service is provided, and specialist knowledge is transferred
• Represent Epson on professional bodies
• Manage the team towards meeting annual and longer-term objectives, holding team members to a high standard of excellence and accountability, identifying and developing talent
• Ensure a culture of diversity and inclusion in the function

What we ask for:Bottom of Form

• Ideally Post Graduate qualification in an IT related discipline (or equivalent experience)

• Extensive experience in IT gained within multi geography business, from end to end, including proactive identification of opportunities and solutions
• Extensive experience in Cloud based and AI solutions including a track record in SAP and Microsoft Dynamics (MSD), specifically including SAP4Hana Migrations and MSD implementations
• Demonstrated ability to understand the products, customers and strategy of a company to facilitate a contribution to business growth
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and visualise the bigger picture whilst maintaining a strong operational and results focus
• Demonstrated experience in leading a team of professionals
• Able to use personal initiative to resolve issues or contribute to improvement initiatives in the wider Epson environment
• A good general business understanding, in a multinational company and clear understanding of applicable standards and regulations relating to Technology
• Good verbal and written communication skills, to be able to communicate across all levels in the organisation
• Experience in delivering effective proposals and presentations to different audiences, including senior management
• Ability to influence others when there is a functional responsibility but no hierarchical authority
• Able to operate effectively in a complex matrix organisation environment with multiple and challenging priorities
• Fluent in English, verbally and in writing. Other languages are desirable

We are keen to hear from you even if you don’t match all listed requirements, but you identify with our brand and passion for innovation.

What we offer:

Our heritage

We aspire to be an indispensable company, trusted throughout the world for our commitment to openness, customer satisfaction and sustainability. We respect individuality while promoting teamwork, and we are committed to delivering unique value through innovative and creative solutions.

Our commitment to the environment

We all have a role to play in building a better future. For Epson, being a sustainable company means being mindful of every aspect of our organisation – from the smallest lightbulb to the largest factory. It fuels our innovation, drives our growth, motivates our workforce and, ultimately, to contribute to society.

Our people

We believe a healthy culture, strong values, teamwork, and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to strive for excellence.

Our brand

Ranked by Clarivate Analytics as a Top 100 Global Innovator brand for the last seven years running.