Senior Manager - IT Business Partnering - Foods and CPG

Role Overview

Senior Manager - IT Business Partnering - Foods and CPG at Al Ghurair. This is a critical and senior leadership role accountable for defining and driving the strategic digitisation, automation and AI roadmap that makes the growth trajectory achievable.

Company Overview

Al Ghurair Foods is a strategic business within Al Ghurair Investment Group. The Group's strategic goals are to be a Top Ten Great Place to Work in the UAE, generate 50% profitability from new businesses by 2033, and be a Top Five diversified business group in the region.

Al Ghurair Foods' growth priorities for 2028 and beyond are to be a Foods value chain player with leadership in grains and a Top Ten Foods CPG player. These ambitions are expected to make Al Ghurair Foods two times bigger by 2028 and three times bigger by 2033.

Role Purpose

Act as the link between the assigned business unit and the IT Centers of Excellence (COEs), representing the voice of the business within IT. Understand business needs, translate them into COE demand, and ensure COE delivery creates measurable value aligned with the strategic objectives of Al Ghurair Foods and Consumer Packaging Goods business.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Digitisation and Technology Roadmap

• Define and drive the strategic digitisation, automation and AI roadmap that makes the growth trajectory achievable.
• Build a technology platform capable of absorbing two to three times the volume, complexity, geographies and product portfolio without a proportional increase in cost, headcount or risk.
• Ensure scale is the design constraint, not an afterthought.
• Convert strategic transformation ambitions into executable technology roadmaps and sequence them against business readiness.

Transformation and Enablement

• Drive the Group's strategic transformation agenda, including Sales Centralisation, Cross-Sell, Supply Chain Transformation, and AI in planning, manufacturing, warehouse and logistics functions.
• Accelerate and stabilize the transition of business roles and processes into Global Business Services (GBS) through process standardisation, automation and technology enablement.

Delivery and Value Realisation

• Deliver the right work from a business requirements perspective, at the right time, with the right outcome in terms of value and ROI realisation.
• Hold business and IT jointly accountable for benefit realisation.
• Manage the overall Business IT budget.

Stakeholder Management

• Manage stakeholder relationships, timely communication, demand prioritisation, co-creation, collaboration and innovation.
• Ensure services are delivered that exceed business expectations and add value to the business.

Qualifications & Experience

• Deep, hands-on knowledge of food manufacturing, distribution supply chain and finance, including grain origination and handling, milling, oilseed crushing and refining, poultry farming and cage-free operations, hatching, rendering and meat processing operations.
• Experience in CPG conversion and packaging.
• Knowledge of route-to-market across distributor, wholesale, retail and HORECA channels.

Skills & Competencies

• Fluency in supply chain technology across the planning, execution and visibility layers.
• Credibility on the plant floor, in warehouse and dispatch locations, in the commercial room, and in the boardroom.