Chief Information Officer

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (H/F) (JOB NUMBER: LUX022172)

**_Cardif Lux Vie_**_ is a major player in Luxembourg's Life Insurance Market._
- On the local market, the company offers a wide range of savings and protection solutions for individuals and professionals. For wealthy clients operating in an international context, _**_Cardif Lux Vie _**_draws up tailor-made and lasting offers through a large network of high-end partners._
- Joining _**_Cardif Lux Vie _**_means joining a company that promotes an open working environment and celebrates everyone's creativity, collaboration, mobility and connectivity._
- Resolutely forward-looking, the company is committed to sustainable and responsible growth. Today and tomorrow, _**_Cardif Lux Vie _**_invests with its employees and customers to build daily Insurance for a Changing World._
- _**_Cardif Lux Vie_**_ is searching for a:_

**Chief Information Officer (H/F)**

**Permanent Contract**

**Your mission**

Guarantee the definition of the department’s global strategy by:

- Defining global objectives of the scope and associated action plans aligned with those of the company,
- Organizing the scope (governance rules and delegation, definition of roles and responsibilities ),
- Defining necessary resources (human, financial, technical),
- Optimising the department budget and organizing its follow-up,
- Defining the manner of steering the department activities,

Guarantee people management and contribute to the department management by:

- Animating regularly the team (periodic meetings...),
- Ensuring the information of the team about company related information and the transmission of information relevant for the accomplishment of the department missions,
- Helping the team members with the development of their technical and behavioural skills,
- Organizing a transfer of managerial skills to direct reports.

Guarantee human resources management in cooperation with the Head of Human Resources by:

- Ensuring the communication with the Head of Human Resources concerning carrier and skills management (mobility, training needs, succession and plan ),
- Guaranteeing the coherence of the remuneration evolution or attribution of the variable remuneration within the company constraints framework,
- Participating to the recruitment process for the department (writing of job descriptions, validation of interviews, employment kick off interview ), in accordance with the procedure established by HR
- Elaborating a recruitment strategy in view of a prospective vision and structural changes in the company,
- Managing disciplinary issues jointly with the manager.

Guarantee operational steering of the activity (performance and activity) by:

- Analysing activity indicators and results,
- Defining associated actions and remediation plans, and ensuring their implementation,
- Guaranteeing the continuity of the activity depending on employees’ vacations and absence,
- Guaranteeing the identification, assessment and management of IT & Cyber security risks within the scope of responsibility,
- Contributing to continuous improvement of effectiveness.

Contribute to the company security by:

- Contributing to proper functioning of continuity solutions and employee protection by taking care of documentation updates, participating to the testing and training teams,
- Contributing to security risk assessment actions concerning resources,
- Exercising validation and control on the resource access related to the employees,
- Informing immediately security contacts about any unusual situation,
- Ensuring in a crisis situation, at its level, business resumption defined by the Business Continuity Plan.

IT Strategy:

- Define and maintain a multiannual IT/IS master plan in coherence with business strategy, ETO transformation plans and the corporate IT strategy and budget guidelines,
- Define the IS target architecture, the appropriate roadmap and financial plan to achieve the target.

Information System Management & Architecture:

- Implement the IT policy and validate its effectiveness,
- Define the budget for its scope and monitor incurred costs,
- Ensure the transformation projects are planned and performed according the Corporate methodology, procedures and rules (CASA, MEGA tool, ADM, security, procurement),
- Ensure that all IT assets are documented and referenced in the Cardif standard cartography tool.
- Ensure the service quality, performance and business adequacy of the Information System.
- Ensure a technological watch.

Infrastructure Management:

- Manage the evolution plan of the company’s Information System and be responsible of its roll-out, its maintenance in operational condition and its permanent availability,
- Maintain in operational conditions all or a part of the Information System, manage software assets,
- Manage hardware assets and ensure permanently the compliance of associated software licenses.

IT Governance:

- Define and deploy all action plans that allow co