- Step up to join the World’s Most Sustainable Company
- Make an Impact in this career defining senior role
- Location flexible – rewarding senior salary package + unique benefits
About Us
At Schneider Electric – Life Is On. Our purpose is to help our customers use energy better: smarter, cleaner and more efficiently. We are your energy technology partner. We electrify, automate and digitalise every industry, business and home, driving efficiency and sustainability for all. We are inventing and creating the energy technology that makes the new energy landscape possible.
The Opportunity
Come and join us and take the next step in your career as our IT Director for Schneider Electric in the Pacific Zone. Joining the World’s Most Sustainable Company, you will leverage your proven senior experience as you execute strategies through innovative, high quality and secure digital solutions. As the central leader for all digital needs across our diverse organisation, you will take a forward‑looking approach in an organisation where AI, data, and people work together seamlessly.
You will leverage your background to lead transformational change and spearhead the latest innovations within an environment that is focused on leading the convergence of electrification, automation and digital intelligence into what we define as energy technology. This career defining opportunity will see you making an Impact as you play a specialist senior role during the exciting journey ahead.
Partnering with senior leaders, engaging strategically with other key stakeholders and playing a central role to shape the future success for Schneider Electric in the Pacific Zone, you will be joining a market leader that will enable you with the resources to succeed, backed by the energy of those around you and enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from a truly global organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership as you translate strategy into clear execution across the Pacific Zone, ensuring that digital and technology strategies align with global enterprise priorities: Digital, Cyber, AI, IT and other local strategy deployment and adoption.
- Operational excellence as you ensure high levels of service delivery, overseeing a reliable and advancing digital/IT infrastructure that supports diverse operations across multiple geographies and environments.
- Subject matter leader and trusted partner to senior leaders, championing digital innovation and supporting the business in planning and modernisation to drive growth across markets that are constantly evolving and full of opportunity.
- Lead business transformation activities, influence change and ensure efficient business systems and processes, enabling the organisation for ongoing success in relation to key business priorities and other strategic objectives.
- Drive innovation as a catalyst for ongoing business performance, staying connected to specialist global teams and driving a culture that is focused on adopting the latest technologies.
- Lead others and develop a high performing team of specialists, fostering our innovative culture and promoting our Values as you deploy your passions for all things technology.
- Manage strategic relationships and other commercial considerations to maximise organisational performance and value to key stakeholder groups and the wider Pacific Zone.
- Ensure compliance, proactively manage risk, governance and other policies/standards that adhere to statutory requirements, internal processes and provides resilient business systems.
Your Profile
- Relevant tertiary qualifications coupled with proven senior experience in a similar role, ideally within a complex global/multinational organisation.
- Previous experience in the successful delivery of technology and other digital solutions, especially where you have led complex strategies, business transformation and related change activities.
- Depth of experience in leading enterprise architecture and a passion for emerging technologies (AI, Cloud, ERP systems, Cyber Security, Applications, Data, Infrastructure Domains etc.).
- Strong knowledge in key areas; Governance, Compliance and other key commercial areas, familiar with regulatory environments within Australia and the Pacific regions.
- Values driven and inclusive Leader who has a presence, known for nurturing strong relationships at all levels of the organisation and trusted partnerships that achieve outcomes through both people and technology.
- Those with additional Postgraduate Qualifications or Certifications will be viewed favourably (Masters, MBA, ITIL, PMP, CGEIT, CISSP etc.).
All applicants must have working rights in Australia at the time of application and will be required to provide documented evidence if selected for Interview.
Perks of Working for Schneider Electric
The list is long but importantly we offer a competitive salary package, access to our employee share plan and salary continuance insurance. Beyond this we have a truly flexible work workplace with opportunities to work remotely, on‑site at customer locations or in our SMART Macquarie Park office facility, including an on‑site gym, FREE parking and EV charging facilities.
- Flexibility at Work and Global Family Leave
- FREE access to Coursera – online University to support your ongoing development
- Fitness Passport – focus on your health and wellbeing
- Share program with the option to participate and receive discounts and contributions
- Annual Leave purchasing options to ensure you have flexibility in your downtime
- Discounts at major vendors such as Clipsal, JB-HiFi and Hoyts just to name a few through our employee rewards schemes
- Ongoing training and development on an expanding portfolio of Schneider products
- Join the World’s Most Sustainable Company and known as a market leader
- Working in a well-balanced team and truly inclusive environment
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
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