Department Manager Information Ecosystem

📍 Location
tunisia, tunisia
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
January 16, 2026
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Job Description


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OMV Aktiengesellschaft

OMV produces and markets oil and gas, innovative energy and high-end petrochemical solutions – in a responsible way. With Group sales of EUR 23 bn and a workforce of more than 20,000 employees in 2018, OMV Aktiengesellschaft is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies. Due to our international activities in up- and downstream we can offer interesting and diverse job opportunities with excellent scope for career development. Diversity and equal opportunities are central to the OMV culture and key to our corporate success. Discover the exciting world of OMV.

Purpose of Position

Accountable for all Digital, Information Management, IT / OT activities within Tunisia Branch Office.

Responsible for planning and controlling all associated budgets & actuals.

Responsible as local BSI for evaluation , submission and follow-up of business demands through the entire delivery lifecycle

Responsible for OT security compliance of OMV Tunisia plants with OMV OT security regulations.

Responsible for remote operations requirement availability (PI system, Vendor Remote Access)

Key Responsibilities:

1.Contributes to the global digital strategy, supports the business and IT Corporate or Business Service Integrator BSI to define specific business digital strategies, and facilitates the implementation of these strategies into operations

2. Consults business by clarifying requirements and shaping demand to ensure architectural fit, coordinating creation of potential solutions. Turns strategic digital topics and ideas into robust initiatives/projects/actions. Ensure proper transformation of demand into projects and operations.

3. Pro-actively identifies and implements innovation and improvement ideas throughout the Business. Verifies fit between business requirements and project deliverables and acts as escalation point for business stakeholder if needed. Measures customer satisfaction and acts as escalation point, if necessary.

4. Enables robust planning and cost controls for all owned Digital/IT/OT/IM budgets, while managing the demand in strong cooperation with Finance Management. Incorporates budgetary requirements based on the identified demand and strategic roadmap.

5. Act as the single point of contact for E&P business in a given domain from the idea, to the demand, project maturation and hand-over into the service organization

6. Act as Integrator to optimize between individual business demand and OMV group interests Optimize application solutions (Principles: Integration, Managed Service, evergreen portfolio optimization)

7. Responsible for ensuring adequate IT, OT and Information Management systems and processes are in place to support HSSE, Emergency Management and Business Continuity

8. Responsible for ensuring the compliance of OMV Tunisia plants with OMV IT and OT security regulations by conducting regularly security assessments to identify gaps and mitigate them.

9. Lead OT teams across OMV plants towards delivering real time operations services such production surveillance , machine monitoring and vendor secure remote access, in a secure way.

10. Manage jointly with operation teams the Industrial Control Systems' vendors to ensure secure and efficient maintenance services of the OT environment in the plants

11. Responsible for providing technical leadership and direct support in the execution and delivery of the IT/OT projects in Tunisia

12. Commercial owner for all Branch Office specific applications, and IT related services

13. Mentor, manage and develop the Digital Excellence team, to support them in their overall performance and development in expertise, capabilities, experience, domain knowledge, digital technologies

14. Enforces local adherence to Digital Governance directives, standards and processes

15. Enforces local adherence to Information and Data governance processes, standards and group wide data protection requirements.

16. Manages relationships and communication towards business, IT Corporate and other Hubs in strong alignment with Strategy and Portfolio Management. Manages interface to delivery and vendors from demand point of view.

17. Manages the digital project/initiatives portfolio, defines performance indicators and supports implementation of digital project/initiatives portfolio, incl. proof of Concept, knowledge source for game changing technologies, link to start ups, digital culture and method spread.

18. Manages the continuous change and transformation, establishes continuous improvement processes / environment by analyzing key business challenges and defining concepts for solution. Develops competences and best-practice toolkit to succeed in major change initiatives. Establishes and enables continuous improvement processes / environment in the area of Digital.

19. Continuously strives for operational excellence by challenging the status quo as well as existing routines and behaviors by monitoring and analyzing current business operations identifying gaps, potential synergies and major pain points developing new improvement ideas to optimize business organizations, processes and systems 20. Facilitating the cross-BU knowledge exchange to build and maintain best-practice know-how. 

Profile:

  • Education: University degree Master/ Diploma
  • Subject of education: O&G/Business Administration/ Information Technology/ Project Management
  • Relevant professional experience > 15 years
  • Relevant professional skills: A professional lead with extensive knowledge across own discipline. Has excellent understanding of the business context, all interfaces and interdependencies and manages complex workflows with other disciplines. Has knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of systems, peripheral devices, and the most sophisticated programming techniques.
  • Project and program management (PMP or Agile certificate)
  • IT security : CISM , CISSP certificate or equivalent
  • IT networking : CCNA or equivalent
  • IT service management : ITIL V3/4 certificate
  • Complex IT infrastructure management
  • Others: More than 10 years of experience in managing teams at the interface between business and IT with a strong IT/OT project management component; Sound finance and economic understanding is essentialExcellent knowledge of technical management, IT systems and standards, SCADA and Controls Systems infrastructure, and computer hardware/software systemsIT/OT and Program or Project Management experienceExperience with design and operation of large scale industrial continuous historians, preferably OSISoft PIExperience with Industrial security standards such as IEC-62443 and NIST SP800-82 and OT security management certification is preferred
  • Critical Competencies for Success:
  • - Managing complexity
    - Ability to chair critical decision meetings
    - Ability to build lasting/trusting relationships with suppliers
    - Advanced influencing, communication and presentation skills
    - Mentoring & coaching skills, able to develop people 

    Are you interested in joining our team?


    Please apply online no later than by providing your resume in the English language

    Contact: OMV (TN) Production GmbHAsma AouiniImmeuble Waterside - Impasse du Lac Turkana1053 TunisT: +216 (36) 2 [email protected]

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