Business Information Manager (BIM) North America

BOORTMALT is the world leader malting company with 3 million tonnes production capacity.
The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers and distillers who rely on the supply of top quality barley malt.
The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high quality barley year round.

As the BIM Manager you will lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Determine the strategy on what applications, workflows, and BIM standards will be used throughout Boortmalt. Carries out the development and implementation of software applications. Help to implement automated technologies to help the company become more efficient and effective. Help plan, initiate and manage information technology (IT) projects.

Your main tasks are:

• Develop and implement the Business Information Strategy (roadmap), contributing to the Boortmalt (instead of "Company") information strategy.
• Monitor the information function in relation to key performance indicators and develop remedial action plans if appropriate.
• Be a proactive member of the senior management team for commissioning intelligence supporting strategic development of Boortmalt [i.o. "the service"].
• Deliver a high quality, responsive and efficient information service supporting Boortmalt [ i.o. "customer"] objectives through delivery of analysis and insight.
• Contribute to the programme of work to delivery an integrated commissioning intelligence system adding significant value to the offer for the customer and ensuring local customer needs are reflected in the development of the system by e.g. projects [i.o. of "(projects)"].
• Support Boortmalt staff [instead of "customers"] proactively, identifying opportunity to use information to support Boortmalt [instead of "customers"] in commissioning and improvement of its [i.o. Company's] services, including creation of business cases.
• Provide inspirational leadership to the information team (e.g. Functional Application Managers and Business Analysts) to drive innovation in delivery of service, motivating the team to implement a culture of customer service and continuous improvement.
• Be responsible for the day to day running of the spoke information function aligned to corporate standards and processes whilst maintaining a customer focussed and responsive service.
• Work closely with external customer organisations to understand their requirements, identify and negotiate appropriate services, working with a range of external customer forums as appropriate.
• Develop and deliver a business focussed programme (project portfolio) of work as agreed with customers and aligned to the corporate programme of work required to deliver mandated elements of the service.
• Work with other teams within the company and relevant external customer leads to ensure that information support for commissioning is integrated with contracting, performance management and financial workstreams.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data quality improvement programme, working with the Development, Data and Integration team and other Business Information Managers to ensure a corporate-wide [i.e. "corporately") consistent approach to data quality.
• Maintain specialist knowledge of methodologies for analysis and reporting and support development of the team in achieving excellence in delivery of services to recognised professional standards.
• Maintain detailed and up to date knowledge of (inter)national policy, legislation and professional best practice in the field of "Boortmalt, region US/CAN" information and support the Head of Information Services to undertake the necessary planning, change and development of Company's information services to meet changes in policy.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of Boortmalt's data flows and incorporate all flows consistently into Boortmalt's DMIC and CI systems.
• Support Boortmalt staff in use of information to ensure informed decision making, including promotion and support for the Boortmalt's CI system.
• Improve the efficiency of the information service by identifying work programmes suitable for delivery at scale and linking with the IT to ensure these are developed appropriately.

Our ideal candidate:

• Master in Information technology or equal by experience
• 5 years' experience in application and project management
• Fluently spoken and written in English
• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA, hold a valid passport and have the ability to travel to Canada.
• This role offers home working flexibility for a maximum of 2 days per week, and 3 days per week in our office in Minneapolis.
• You are open to travel at least once every 2 months to the other Boortmalt sites in the North America region.

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

"Strive" - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.

"Care" - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.

"Inspire" - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

"Explore" - thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.