Director, IT Global Technical Services

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is the world’s leading integrated producer of concentrated phosphate and potash—two of the three most important nutrients in agriculture. We employ more than 13,000 people in six countries to serve farmers all over the world. Our Headquarters is in Lithia, Florida with operations throughout North America (U.S./Canada) and South America.

The Director, IT Global Technical Services directs the delivery of Global IT base services throughout Mosaic, which includes all technical infrastructure, cloud operations, computing environments, desktop applications, networks, telephony, conferencing, technical support and application support. Global support includes managing multilingual, 24-hour support coverage for key services. The incumbent must effectively manage the relationships with Mosaic’s key outsource vendors, software vendors and hardware vendors.

What you’ll do?

• Global Infrastructure:
  Partnering with the peer IT teams, provide cost effective, highly available and high performing global infrastructure.
  Benchmark cost performance against peers, develop and execute strategies to optimize cost of services. 

• External Service Provider Management:
  Manage external service providers for cloud services, managed services, network operations, and support services.
  Ensure appropriate service levels are established, performance meets or exceeds service levels and issue escalations are addressed to
  ensure Mosaic maximizes their agreement’s value obtained. 

• People Leadership:
  Lead, develop and coach the Global Technical Services team in order to continually improve IT capabilities necessary to
  increase performance of the organization. Provide timely and constructive feedback on a regular basis to ensure employees
  have a clear understanding of their work, roles and the business. Manage performance issues when necessary. Work with
  employees on their career development plans.
  Lead the team to adopt agile development methodologies to deliver required services to the business.
  Foster a business-oriented culture and mindset within the Global Technical Services team driven by a continual service improvement approach. 

• Business of IT:
  Participate in the development of the IT strategic plan, annual budgeting, forecasting and resource management activities.
  Other job duties as assigned.

• Operational Level Agreement Management:
  Manage operational level agreements (OLA) with Mosaic internal customers, which will include setting annual targets,
  measuring performance and improving performance as necessary. OLAs will encompass infrastructure performance, service
  and support delivery.
  Ensure the processes deployed are operating in an optimal manner.
  Develop and maintain a global IT service catalog.
  Provide Global multilingual support services via technical and application staff and external providers.

What you’ll need:

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience

• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale IT teams

• Leadership experience in identifying, negotiating and maintaining effective outsource relationships

• Experience managing multi-site personnel

• Experience with vendor performance management

• Knowledge of best practices for service delivery

• Experience building strategic plans for IT function

• Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills, including the ability to effectively present concepts and proposals

• Ability to coach and develop employees

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills

• Strong motivational leader that possesses a hands-on, lead by example approach

• Proven strategic planning and project management capabilities

• Ability to effectively work and create strong and effective partnerships with employees at all levels within the organization

• Ability to influence senior executives

• Excellent business acumen

• Strong analysis and problem-solving techniques

• Demonstrated critical thinking and decision making skills

• Must be goal oriented and results driven

• Excellent organizational skills

• Ability to adapt to a continually changing business and work environment and manage conflicting priorities

• High level of personal integrity

• Ability to professionally handle confidential matters and show appropriate level of judgment and maturity

• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals

What's in it for you: 

• A competitive base salary + bonus incentives  

• 11 paid holidays each year 

• A generous 401k with a company match and annual company contribution

• Paid sick leave  

• Paid vacation time 

• A robust benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, life & disability  

• Tuition reimbursement

• Paid Paternity/Maternity Leave
   

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