It Manager Lazio

It Manager
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

IT Manager**:

**POSITION SNAPSHOT**:

- JobReq ID: 48679- Type of work: Hybrid- Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent- Full/Part Time: Full time- Location: ROMA, IT**OUR COMPANY**:

Bridgestone in Europe, CIS, Middle East, India and Africa (BSEMIA), headquartered in Zaventem (Belgium), is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions.

In addition to our premium tire products, we offer a growing portfolio of tire-centric and mobility solutions.

Together with our partners and guided by "Serving Society with Superior Quality", that has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931, we are working to accelerate sustainable mobility innovations and solutions.

Through innovative technology, we are committed to easier, safer, smoother and seamless mobility for our society and customers improving how people move, live, work and play.

Bridgestone also benefits from a significant retail network throughout the region - in fact our retail presence in the EMIA region is the largest in the tire industry.

Through 17 distinct retail partners, we have around 3, 500 outlets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as around 2, 500 outlets through our partner network in India.

This network offers a selection of services, concepts and mobility solutions.

At Bridgestone we pride ourselves on the strong relationships we maintain with everyday drivers and this extensive retail network is one of the core reasons why.

In line with the "Bridgestone Essence", our work environment is based on integrity and teamwork, where everyone can learn from each other and contribute with their own ideas in achieving the coming goals.

We want to hear from people who can take the challenge, unleash their creative potential and contribute to the company success demonstrating ownership, courage and agility.

We want you to develop your skills, expand your knowledge and be proud of your work.

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**Job Purpose and Content

IT Manager of Bridgestone European R&D Centre

Being one of the key elements of Bridgestone European R&D Centre, IT has the mission to partner with R&D departments in their effort of building digital tools and solutions supporting the digital transformation of our R&D processes and organization, with the objective to gain efficiency, reduce the time-to-market of our products, reduce the environmental footprint of our experimental activities, as well as to enable capturing new business opportunities.

- Create a strong partnership with R&D departments and other IT functions to identify and implement the solutions that will support the full digitalization of R&D processes;

- Collaborate with BSEMIA IT Cybersecurity Team to ensure the compliance of R&D Centre IT processes and systems with Bridgestone EMIA Information Security Policies.

These policies define requirements, objectives and strategy for protecting information, systems and assets by establishing an Information Security Management System (ISMS);

- Drive the modernization and the simplification of the solutions portfolio the team has developed defining a cloud migration strategy;

- Think E2E processes and integration of R&D in the overall architecture landscape

- Ensure that the team members adopt a Modern Application Development framework (incl.

design thinking, agile project management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) methods and tools) to build their solutions;

- Run efficiently the operations of the on premises data center with a continuous effort to decrease its energy consumption footprint;

- Manage and evolve the R&D Centre internal network in full collaboration with Bridgestone EMIA IT networking team and external partners;

- Manage and evolve the Hybrid Digital Workplace technologies to ensure the colleagues the most efficient office/remote working experience;

- Define and manage the R&D Centre IT budget synergizing costs and investments with other IT departments;

- Ensure People Development, through Talent Management, People Performance Evaluation and development of Succession Planning

**Required Capabilities

- MS degree in ICT or related field;

- Tech-savvy leader with deep understanding of current and emerging ICT digital technologies, trends and best practices which can drive disruption and shape new business models;

- All-round management skills;

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;

- Team player who supports, encourages and shares knowledge with others;

- Out-of-the-box thinker;

- Certifications in traditional as well as Agile software development methodologies is a plus;

**Experience

- 10+ years working experience in shaping IT solutions and operating large, complex and critical solutions on premises as wells as in cloud environments;

- Prior work experience in several of following emerging technologies: IoT, big data, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, componentized architecture, blockchain,