What Are We All About? We lead the Company in the acquisition, implementation and integration of information systems and technologies that contribute to meeting our corporate objectives. Our mission is to deliver information systems and technologies when and where they are needed to improve business results. We are the source of the Company’s competitive advantage through the deployment of proven and state-of-the-art communication and computer technologies, improving business processes and delivering quality information for business decision-making.

Where Could You Start? The majority of starting assignments will be in the Global Business Services, where the bulk of technical development will occur. You may also have the opportunity to start within the Global Business Units and the Market Development Organizations. These assignments focus on building technical expertise and knowledge of the business, and involve hands-on delivery in the areas of application development, data management and infrastructure operations. Your technical skill growth will be in both specific technologies, as well as in best practices for developing, implementing and supporting them with excellence for a company of P&G’s scale. If assigned to the Global Business Services, you could manage the development and implementation of the company’s globally standard business applications, databases, information delivery tools and IT infrastructure. You could provide the work process reengineering and design, as well as the data and information system applications required by these global standard processes. Your technical expertise will also be critical in the engineering, implementation and support of workstation, midrange, mainframe and web-oriented computing platforms as well as local and wide-area telecommunications networks to provide the high quality, low cost technical services P&G requires. If assigned to a Global Business Unit, you will focus on understanding the Global Business Unit’s strategies and search for opportunities to leverage on IT’s capability. You could also be involved in the implementation and support of manufacturing plant systems or interactive marketing (i.e. brand websites, consumer relationship management) in the Global Business Unit. If assigned to the Market Development Organization, you could manage projects that improve business results by exploiting IT capability in business operations for P&G's customer teams, retail customers, marketing groups, and the organization itself. You will develop a thorough understanding of our customers systems, data, and information flow and define opportunities that link P&G with the customer. One such example is utilizing a retail customer's point-of-sale data to improve promotion forecasting and efficiency. Then, the transformation of understanding into knowledge and insight about the customer, the market, and the consumer will be done. This allows customer teams and marketing groups to gain a better understanding of their opportunities. You also lead implementation of systematic changes for our customer teams to support their plans of driving volume/reducing costs by leveraging information technology. You could manage the execution and support web enabling technology to enable organization to be more effective and efficient. Finally, you could manage the execution of the deployment and support of globally standard business applications, databases, information delivery tools and IT infrastructure developed by other business units. If assigned to the Corporate Function, you could provide Corporate-level IT Strategy and direction setting. You could be made responsible for the development and management of the overall IT infrastructure, application, data and security architecture. You could also be doing long-term technology engineering and industry “gate keeping” - providing a single “face” to the external technology industry. You could be providing leadership for the development and integration of P&G’s Knowledge assets.

What Could Your Career Path Look Like In The Future? Continued career growth consists of more advanced stages of technical development and opportunities to manage the work of others. After your first few assignments, you will have the option to deepen your knowledge in areas of particular interest. Global Business Services will offer numerous opportunities to deepen your technical mastery with increasingly complex technical leadership responsibilities. Global Business Units and Market Development Organizations will provide opportunities to broaden your business skills as you lead IT application as part of a multi-disciplinary business team. From one assignment to the next, you can change the blend of technical and managerial responsibilities desired to build your overall skills. An Information Technology leader will be expected to clearly demonstrate leadership and strong influence over both the technology and the business, and to have the in-depth knowledge of both to the point of knowing where and how to leverage information technology to drive business results. If your interest and demonstrated strength lie in broader leadership roles, you will take increasing responsibility for direction setting, setting long-term goals for the organization and developing the strategies to achieve those goals. Emphasis will be on strong leadership, whether in a technical specialty or managing a large organization. You would clearly need to demonstrate leadership in both the IT community and within the GBU, MDO and GBS multi-disciplinary organizations. You should demonstrate the ability to build organization capability and to influence thinking outside traditional organization boundaries. Career advancements may sometimes require moving to other organization units or to another country.