Strategy and Architecture Lead Prague, Praha

Strategy and Architecture Lead

Asahi Europe & International is part of Asahi Group Holdings, a global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food group with leading positions in European and Asia-Pacific markets, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan. As of November 2020, Asahi Europe & International Group runs 19 production facilities in 8 countries across Europe, and is the custodian of some of the best beer brands in the world, including Asahi Super Dry, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Grolsch and Kozel. Within the Asahi Group, the remit of Asahi Europe and International is also to develop and manage all export markets globally, outside of Japan and Oceania. Covering 90 markets and with over 10,000 passionate colleagues on board, the business is well positioned to inspire people around the world to drink better.
**Company overview**:
Asahi Europe & International is part of Asahi Group Holdings, a global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food group with leading positions in European and Asia-Pacific markets, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan. As of November 2020, Asahi Europe & International Group runs 19 production facilities in 8 countries across Europe, and is the custodian of some of the best beer brands in the world, including Asahi Super Dry, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Grolsch and Kozel. Within the Asahi Group, the remit of Asahi Europe and International is also to develop and manage all export markets globally, outside of Japan and Oceania. Covering 90 markets and with over 10,000 passionate colleagues on board, the business is well positioned to inspire people around the world to drink better.
Functional overview
digital aims to be the best strategic technology partner and enabler for AEI business to meet its strategic goals. A regionally integrated function in which every employee plays a part. Organizationally, #digital is structured to enable digital innovation and is capable of agile value delivery on pre-defined, technology platforms. We are organised around business functions and empowered to achieve goals. We will harness capabilities with suitable technologies, together with a unified data model to enable and meet expected business outcomes. Our AEI behaviours and #digital Principles will shape the way we collaborate across business functions, fusing and working together on joint goals, strategy and execution. The function is the forefront of new technologies, deliberately reducing the constraints of the ‘old’ and enabling the ‘new’, to contribute directly to the increasing expansion of our premium brands at scale.
**Main purpose of the job**:
**Accountabilities and deliverables**:
- **Strategy and governance**:
- IS Strategy
- Define objectives, frameworks, and metrics for the strategic planning process and establish ownership and timelines for key planning steps (Financial and IS)
- Ensure alignment across IS of the Strategic priorities and investment areas
- Measure success of strategy over time
- Conduct market and competitive research to identify broader business trends and assumptions that may affect the IT strategy
- Special projects startup
- Provide strategic focus in the portfolio prioritization process and publish strategy
- Enterprise Architecture
- Lead and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise
- Roadmap alignment to strategy
- Solution architect interface to strategy
- APM governance and communication
- Champion SAP and BI/Analytics strategy
- **Manage the EA Practice**:
- Leads the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice.
- Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organization’s top and bottom lines.
- Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
- Leads the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy.
- Plans and manages a talent pool of architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization.
- **Facilitate Innovation**:
- Assesses disruptive forces impacting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
- Contextualizes technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
- Scans the world for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. Provides practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
- Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and use agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
- Runs technology experimen

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