General Manager - IT [Application]
Arvind Limited
Role Overview
Designation Title: General Manager - IT
Department: Application
Business Unit: Corporate
Group Company: Arvind Limited
Location: AMD
Work Mode: Onsite
About Arvind Limited
Arvind is a diversified, innovation-led Indian enterprise with a rich legacy of excellence, integrity, and responsible growth. With deep roots in textiles, the company has evolved into a multi-business organization with capabilities spanning Textiles, Apparel, Retail, Advanced Materials, Environmental Solutions, Communication, Mobility, and Digital Solutions.
Driven by innovation, sustainability, and a strong customer-centric approach, Arvind continues to create products and solutions that make a meaningful impact across industries and communities. Its enduring legacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment to building a better future make Arvind a dynamic organization for professionals looking to grow, innovate, and make a difference.
Role Summary
- General Manager - IT, Department: Application, Grade: BMH3, Experience: 12-15 years.
- This role serves as a Technology Business Partner, working closely with business leadership to identify where technology, AI, automation, and digitization can create meaningful impact.
- You will translate business priorities into feasible initiatives, drive them end-to-end, and ensure solutions are adopted effectively on the ground.
- The role requires strong business acumen, structured problem-solving, and the ability to operate across business, IT, data, and vendor ecosystems.
- This is a senior individual contributor role that combines problem discovery, solutioning, delivery, and adoption in a business-facing environment.
- Proactively identify business problems and opportunities where technology can drive measurable impact.
- Translate leadership ideas and business needs into clear, scoped, and feasible problem statements.
- Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of technology-led initiatives for the business unit.
- Align leadership on what is achievable with current technology and where foundational gaps must be addressed first.
- Liaise with central IT, data and analytics teams, and external vendors to assemble the right capabilities for each initiative.
- Evaluate and recommend solutions across AI, automation, digitization, and related technology interventions.
- Own initiative delivery end-to-end, from scoping and implementation through adoption and impact tracking.
- Monitor post-go-live adoption and take corrective action where uptake is lagging.
- Drive process and workflow changes needed to realize the full benefit of technology interventions.
- Measure and report on realized business impact.
- Build technology and AI awareness within the business unit at all levels.
- Support a culture of technology-led problem solving and relevant upskilling initiatives.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI tools and their practical applications in a business context.
- Structured problem-solving and clear communication, including comfort presenting to CXOs and working with operations teams.
- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders across business, IT, and vendor ecosystems.
- Demonstrated track record of driving technology adoption with real end users.
- High comfort with ambiguity and the ability to define scope, set priorities, and create structure.
- Self-starter mindset with strong ownership and proactive execution.
- Experience spanning two or more of the following: management consulting, business strategy, technology product management, digital transformation.
- Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or B2B business environments.
- Experience balancing ground-level execution with senior stakeholder management.
- Prior experience in early-stage or unstructured organizational contexts.
- Familiarity with capability-building or transformation-led upskilling initiatives.
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits
- Learning, Certifications & Career Growth Opportunities
- Inclusive & Collaborative Work Culture
- Employee Discounts and Corporate Travel Benefits
- Internal Growth & Cross-Functional Mobility
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