IT Director

As IT Director the challenge will be to develop our current performing IT platform to support the market as it moves towards digital transformation. To perform this, you will have to guide and motivate a team of 40 IT people.

Your mission:

Board member:

• As a member of the Executive Committee reporting to the CEO of speos Belgium, you will hold a strategic position at the heart of our company while maintaining a pragmatic dialogue focused on technical expertise.
• Even more important is that you will contribute to the strategic reflection on the vision and culture of our organization and that you will help to guard our values in the company.
• Our speos culture is unique within a large structure such as the bpost group and together we ensure that we maintain our individuality while respecting the guidelines that are common within the group.

Born people manager:

• Your global team will consist of 40 people, with 5 direct reports.  The ICT management team consists of an ICT Operational manager, an ICT Product manager, a Tailormade manager and an ICT integration & Program manager. You will guide them on a daily basis and support them in their further development through coaching.

Main tasks:

• Developing the IT architecture in line with the company’s strategy to ensure consistency of developments
• Choosing the right IT tools to bring them into line with developments
• Manage relations with strategic IT suppliers to optimize investments and monitor maintenance
• Propose and justify investment requirements in technologies that are as innovative and appropriate as possible, to maintain the company’s technological know-how
• Acting as a technical sales representative where necessary to respond appropriately to customer requests and needs.
• To draw up annual budgets for his/her department and monitor them on a quarterly basis to guarantee the company’s profitability.
• Ensure that the company’s values are respected so that all employees live the company with the same rules of behavior
• Continuous Improvement: provide a qualitative reporting on IT related topics. In cooperation with the executive committee, see where efficiency improvements can be implemented.

• Developing the IT architecture in line with the company’s strategy to ensure consistency of developments
• Choosing the right IT tools to bring them into line with developments
• Manage relations with strategic IT suppliers to optimize investments and monitor maintenance
• Chooses the training needs of his staff and himself to maintain technological know-how
• Propose and justify investment requirements in technologies that are as innovative and appropriate as possible, to maintain the company’s technological know-how
• Acting as a technical sales representative where necessary to respond appropriately to customer requests and needs.
• To put in place procedures for reporting all the information required for invoicing customer developments to optimize the company’s profitability.
• To draw up annual budgets for his/her department and monitor them on a quarterly basis to guarantee the company’s profitability. Justify any discrepancies and take corrective action where necessary.
• Provide the Exco with departmental KPIs on a monthly basis, analyze them and take any necessary corrective action.
• Ensure that the company’s values are respected so that all employees live the company with the same rules of behavior
• Assessing direct reports to help them develop and grow
• Participate actively in the Exco

Your profile:

It is logical that you are creative and always curious about the trends and developments in the world of IT and new technologies; preferably you combine this with at least 5 years of experience as an IT Director/Manager. You will be able to challenge the solutions proposed by our teams and subcontractors, ensuring the quality and relevance of our technological choices. However, there are a few other things we would like to emphasize:

• You are a leader able to guide and motivate your team.
• You are up-to-date with latest trends in this specifics IT field: API development, Containerization & orchestration, Serverless & SASS computing, Microservices architecture & edge computing, no-code & low-code, Infrastructure ( multi-cloud & distributed cloud computing, DevOps & CI/CD,…)
• You are able to combine long-term projects with day-to-day practical tasks
• You are service-oriented, diplomatic and collaborative
• You have sharp analytical skills
• You are a good communicator, assertive and someone you can trust. You are known for your interpersonal skills and you have the SME spirit;
• You are familiar with the functioning of an Executive Committee
• To effectively communicate with our employees, you speak French and Dutch, but of course our other stakeholders will also be happy to communicate with you in English.
• University degree, with extensive experience in IT.
• Experience in any of the following areas is an advantage: Prince 2 / Scrum/ ITIL/ BCP

Our offer:

A competitive salary according to your experience and numerous fringe benefits (Company car & fuel card, meal vouchers, CLA 90, 6 days ADV, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, …)

In addition, we offer you:

• A lot of autonomy and flexibility in a position that has a direct impact on the growing speos business.
• An active participation of the evolving Marketing strategy of speos.
• A challenging role in full change with many challenges, opportunities and innovative projects.
• A dynamic team in a company with a family culture!
• An atmosphere, collegiality and friendly unique speos culture. And we will prove it to you.
• To have lunch in a nice environment, to take a hot shower after you put your bike in our secure storage and we have pleasant meeting rooms and much more.

Why speos?

speos is an innovative outsourcing document service provider and a leader in the market. speos has been part of the bpost group since 2001, yet we retain our own culture and identity. Today, we have 220 members in our family. Our CEO knows everyone by first name and holds employees’ well-being as a top priority. The atmosphere, collegiality and conviviality at speos are unique! You won’t find our dynamism, camaraderie, professionalism and opportunity anywhere else!