About this role
Overview
Oversee the strategic direction of the organization’s technology initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develops and aligns IT strategy, roadmap, and policy with JBI strategic operational direction.
- Provides strategic vision, guidance, and insights to the JBI Executive Team.
- Drives the digital adoption and transformation, enabling data driven decision making throughout the organization.
- Provides clear and consistent leadership across the assigned operating businesses, with an eye to the unique requirements of shared resources yet independent operations.
- Invests significant energy in understanding each business unit, its markets and how it uses technology.
- Develops cost effective solutions to enhance their competitive advantage.
- Develops and maintains highly collaborative working relationships with key executives, sponsors and functions.
- With Executive Leadership, develops appropriate investment and annual operating budgets to support required operations while maintaining OpEx & CapEx target.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Designs, develops, and implements IT organization design to meet JBI operational requirements.
- Develops and mentors the IT leadership team, providing verbal and written direction, goals, feedback, and guidance.
- Communicates clear translation of Corporate Strategy to IT initiatives and leads development of planning, implementation, and execution.
- Defines KPI & Metrics to enable the effective measurement of IT performance.
- Manages key vendor relationships, negotiates critical systems, support, and platform contracts.
- Develops, publishes, and deploys IT Best Practices throughout JBI.
- Manages daily and annual budget, spend management and out of cycle purchases.
- Leads the development and deployment of an enterprise governance capability which provides controls for investments in technology, business enablement and emerging capabilities.
- Provides a formal project management intake and approval process (business case, ROI, CBA, budget, resource requirements).
- Manages and reports on Resource Utilization and Management.
- Integrates with finance team to manage Capital Controls for project approvals and budget expenditures.
- Evaluates and recommends internal, external or hybrid solutions in support of key business functions (ERP, CRM etc.)
- Defines, deploys, and provides Security, Compliance and Governance frameworks in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley standards to identify, manage and mitigate risk to business continuity.
- Ensures the GDR, audit and compliance related functions become embedded in standard IT Operational processes.
- Stays abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the potential to impact JBI’s organization or environment.
- Ensures that key IT functions are peer reviewed by appropriate executive members (legal, finance, strategy).
- Deploys enterprise controls.
- Creates, documents, and captures key business processes, workflows and functions utilized in current ERP solution.
- Identifies industry best of breed affordable solutions to meet JBI requirements around WMS, SCM, etc.
- Recommends, Develops and supports an Architecture that creates a cost effective, manageable solution for critical business applications.
- Leads the creation and maintenance of an Integration Architecture that allow for the on/off boarding of technologies, organizations, and business lines.
- Ensures that the IT organization stays relevant by implementing Innovation Capability that evaluates and pilots emerging technologies and trends in the industry.
- Ensures that IT’s strategic Roadmap is maintained with Legacy, Current and Future technologies clearly identified, aligned with capital investment and business growth plans.
- Ensures that opportunities to leverage emerging technologies (ML, AI, Process Mining) are evaluated and made available to the business to evaluate.
- Develops and deploys a comprehensive Cyber and InfoSec strategy to provide a broad multi-fabric security solution capable of ensuring the resilience of JBI’s enterprise assets.
- Leverages best of breed products in a layers solution to reduce risk and enhance the security posture of the enterprise.
- Ensures a consistent training cadence and ongoing awareness with JBI users to reduce risks associated with security incidents.
- Continuously trains staff to appropriately respond and manage through Information Security Incidents should they occur.
- Develops and maintains close working relationships with legal department as related to Information Security, Data Privacy and Cyber threats.
- Ensures that a proper Data Classification process is in place in the event of a security event.
- Other duties, as assigned.
Qualifications
- 15 + years’ experience including IT leadership in a diversified business operating on multiple platforms with total annual revenues exceeding $500M, preferably in a public company.
- 10+ years of previous work-related experience.
- Strong communication skills – ability to synthesize technical information in order to clearly and concisely articulate solutions, strategies, etc. to senior leaders.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk.
- Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally on the telephone and in person.