Vice President, IT & Digital Transformation

Vice President, IT & Digital Transformation

VP, IT & Digital Transformation — RGE Agri

Location : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (HQ) | Reports to : Group Chief Digital and IT Officer and President, RGE Agri

Context

RGE IT and Digital team enables the digital transformation of RGE’s business units through the adoption of modern software technologies such as sensors, analytics engineering, cloud and artificial intelligence, in the areas of digital forestry, manufacturing and logistics.

Our businesses operate in the forestry, paper manufacturing, edible oils, supply chain and renewable energy industries where we have global scale operations across four continents with USD 40 billion+ in assets and ~80,000 employees.

Role Summary

Lead the enterprise technology and digital strategy for a large, and growing integrated palm oil business ( RGE Agri ), covering upstream, midstream and downstream businesses Asian Agri and Apical.

Modernize core systems and operations across plantation management, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial functions—while ensuring secure, compliant, high-availability IT / OT services. Operate as the digital champion for the business unit, managing resources and delivering mobile, web, analytics / AI, and core IT (SAP) transformation to measurable outcomes.

Key Objectives

• Launch a 3-year IT / Digital roadmap focused on supply chain optimisation, margin uplift, manufacturing excellence, and automation of commercial operations.
• Deliver EBITDA impact via digital use cases (predictive maintenance, yield optimization, planning & inventory optimization, sales digitization).
• Modernize core platforms & data : SAP upgrade and S / 4HANA journey planning, modernization of trading systems, single-source lake / warehouse, and financial analytics.
• Uplift cybersecurity and OT security across plants and locations.
• Establish product-centric delivery, agile execution, continuous integration and delivery, and value tracking to improve time-to-value and adoption across sites in Malaysia and the region.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Technology and Digital Transformation

Stakeholder Engagement

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

Qualifications

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, and Oil, Gas, and Mining

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