Sr. Manager Infrastructure & Operations – GCC

Leadership Competencies:

• Authentic: Operates with integrity, transparency, and humility.
• Enterprise Minded: Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters.
• Outside-In Thinkers: Carries a broad global perspective of markets, technologies, and trends.
• Agile: Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results.
• People Focused: Actively creates the conditions for Waters’ people and teams to succeed.
• Able to operate successfully and be effective in a high-change environment and comfortable dealing with a certain amount of ambiguity.
• Experience in Agile development methodology such as Scrum, Agile, Kanban, and Dev-Ops implementation.
• Able to influence and align across a range of different opinions and interests.
• Demonstrable ability to build productive relationships and motivate team members; must have a positive, can-do attitude.
• Highly articulate and able to convey important business messages in a clear and compelling manner at employee and Executive level.
• The candidate will have demonstrated the ability to build strong and open working relationships characterized by mutual respect between superiors, peers, and subordinates within the organization.
• Track record of success in communicating technical information to non-technical audiences. Demonstrates experience in gaining the confidence of divisional senior executive audiences or higher.
• Openly communicative of ideas with others and inviting and considering input from the business, IT peers, and their direct reports. This executive will be accessible and approachable, respecting intellectual integrity and valuing individuality, building and fostering working relationships with business partners from a variety of functions and geographies, thus enabling a partnership mentality with the management team.
• Able to appropriately delegate key responsibilities and transfer some of their own duties and decisions as the direct/indirect reports’ number and abilities grow.
• Superior project management and prioritization skills ensuring the delivery of complex projects on-time, on-budget, and on-scope.
• Dynamic, engaging, self-reliant, and entrepreneurial senior executive, accustomed to managing with a collaborative, fact-based approach, and articulate communication and interpersonal warmth.
• Person who is motivated by their impact on the organization rather than personal career advancement.
• Person who is equally comfortable and capable interacting with technologists as they are with the business executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience with technology solutions through highly integrated enterprise, with at least 5 years of experience leading organizations.
• Experience with large-scale IT integration efforts, public-facing technology mergers and acquisitions, and the ability to establish, communicate, and maintain technology standards across Waters’ business segments.
• Capable of executing short-term (tactical) and long-term (strategic) plans.
• Ability to evangelize and sell stakeholders across the company on key I/O priorities and how they connect with larger company initiatives.
• Significant experience contributing to a senior management team – this assumes participation in strategic and business planning, product strategy, operations, sales, marketing, and overall business direction.
• High level of financial literacy oversight to effectively manage technology, expenses, and capital spending, producing cost analysis that considers the costs and benefits, not only in the technology areas but also in the user business areas.