Director of Information and Technology

• Leads the development of the IT strategy and roadmap; ensures its integration with the organization's strategic planning process, and the resulting business strategy and plans.
• Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with members of the leadership team to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and is able to respond with agility to changing business priorities. Uses influencing and negotiation skills to create synergies across the organization to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of business goals.
• Collaborates with leadership team to define and execute the digital business strategy.
• Keeps current on emerging technologies and platforms and provides direction on possible introduction and integration within the organization to ensure IT capabilities respond to the needs of the organization's digital business strategy.
• Provides strategic direction in the IT organization's innovation efforts and role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of those opportunities in the fulfillment of the digital business strategy of the organization.
• Provides strategic direction and oversight for the design, development, operation and support of IT systems and programs that fulfill the needs of the business, including organization architecture management, application management, security and risk management, and infrastructure and operations support management.
• Develops and controls annual operating and capital expenditure budget for IT to ensure it is consistent with overall strategic objectives of the organization and is within plan.
• Directs the development of IT sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management.
• Works with HR and the leadership team to develop an IT "people strategy" that aligns with the business and IT strategy. Both teams work together to continually look for leading-edge and innovative solutions to the recruitment, development and retention of the IT workforce.
• Develops and maintains the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills and competencies that balance the needs between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable and efficient.
• Leads the establishment and execution of a digital workplace strategy that ensures employees have the tools and work environment to be more engaged, productive and effective.
• Serves on organization planning and policymaking committees; drives the development of organization technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value to the organization.
• Provides leadership, coaching and direction to the leadership

The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to perform the essential job duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.