MWI Animal Health business systems are critical to the delivery of our services to our customers.
The primary mission of this role is to take ownership and drive continuous improvement and development of the IT systems and applications provided to MWI customers, associates and suppliers. This is achieved through managing the resources under your leadership and working with the Head of IT to implement strategic changes, following proven methodologies such as ITIL and Agile to enable the business in a timely and structured manager. 

Main responsibilities and KPI's include:
Manage the IT systems teams, ensuring they meet the standards set; Complete performance management tasks such as but not limited to PDRs and return to work; Work with the Product Owners to ensure Roadmaps for their respective area are in place and regularly updated to reflect the needs of the business; Contribute to IT Management decisions and strategy to drive the business forwards; Own the IT Architecture for MWI, ensuring it is regularly reviewed and assessed for optimum effectiveness; Maintain systems and applications in line with business continuity and disaster recovery plans; Collaboratively work with ABC IT to leverage the resources available to MWI; Provide advice and support to the MWI IT Support and business system teams; Keep up to date with technology including emerging technologies and adopting/recommending as appropriate; Seek out improvements in the technology and applications used and implement improvements where appropriate in line with business plan; Define project objectives and constraints, along with clearly defined scope documents; Work closely with our customers and partners to produce high level system design; Work closely with our partners throughout the system build phase.

Key Challenges and Limitations:
MWI Animal Health has a broad systems and applications base utilising industry leading technology. However, this has evloved, some is dated and some need rationalising to meet the standards of the Enterprise and of MWI Animal Health UK.
MWI IT is integrating with the AmerisourceBergen IT teams. Aligning MWI systems and applications with the appropriate model and therefore working with the appropriate teams is being defined and needs to be understood and influenced to provide MWI UK with the best option. Key contributiors will be the Head of IT from MWI AH and key stakeholders in ABC.

This role is a temporary contract for 12 months.

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Our cash plan offers employees money back on everyday health expenses including many medical, optical and dental prescriptions while providing access to additional services and alternative therapies.

We provide many of our employees private coverage options from a major provider in the U.K. These plans provide you and your dependents access to private hospital care should you need it.

We believe a team that's respected and compensated fairly is an empowered and effective one. Our employees are offered competitive pay and benefits packages. 

We offer our employees access to an auto-enrolment plan with a leading supplier of financial services. We match up to 6% of salary contributions before any tax is deducted.

All employees receive life insurance of six times their annual salaries, tax free, if they should pass in service. Sums are awarded to nominated family members or others.

In addition to the usual benefits, our Healthshield plan gives participants access to well-being services and even health-and-legal counselling services.

Health and wellness matters to us. In that spirit, we offer employees discounted rates to local gyms or gym subsidies to their preferred facilities.