CIO - Janus

Janus International Group•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The CIO oversees the strategic direction of the organization’s technology initiatives. The role aligns IT strategy, roadmaps, and policies with JBI’s strategic and operational direction, advises the Executive Team, and leads digital adoption and transformation to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. The CIO builds understanding of each business unit and its technology needs, develops cost-effective solutions, and maintains collaborative relationships with executives, sponsors, and functions. The role designs and leads the IT organization, develops and mentors its leadership team, and translates corporate strategy into IT planning and execution. It establishes performance metrics, manages vendor relationships and IT spending, and leads governance and project intake processes for technology investments. The CIO works with executive leadership and Finance on operating and investment budgets, capital controls, resource utilization, and approvals. The CIO evaluates technology solutions for key business functions, develops application and integration architectures, and maintains an IT roadmap aligned with capital investment and business growth plans. The role leads security, compliance, governance, and risk mitigation in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley standards; embeds audit and compliance functions in IT operations; and develops a comprehensive cybersecurity and information security strategy. It also supports security awareness and incident readiness, partners with Legal on information security and data privacy, and evaluates emerging technologies and industry trends for potential business use.

Requirements

15 or more years of experience, including IT leadership in a diversified business operating on multiple platforms with total annual revenues exceeding $500 million; experience in a public company is preferred.
10 or more years of previous work-related experience.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to synthesize technical information and clearly and concisely articulate solutions and strategies to senior leaders.
Regularly sit, stand, and walk.
Communicate clearly and professionally by telephone and in person.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a public company.

Responsibilities

Develop and align IT strategy, roadmaps, and policies with JBI’s strategic and operational direction.
Provide strategic vision, guidance, and insights to the JBI Executive Team.
Drive digital adoption and transformation to enable data-driven decision-making.
Provide leadership across assigned operating businesses while accounting for shared resources and independent operations.
Understand each business unit, its markets, and its use of technology; develop cost-effective solutions that enhance competitive advantage.
Maintain collaborative working relationships with key executives, sponsors, and functions.
Work with Executive Leadership to develop investment and annual operating budgets while maintaining OpEx and CapEx targets.
Design, develop, and implement an IT organization that meets JBI operational requirements.
Develop and mentor the IT leadership team by providing direction, goals, feedback, and guidance.
Translate corporate strategy into IT initiatives and lead planning, implementation, and execution.
Define KPIs and metrics to measure IT performance.
Manage key vendor relationships and negotiate systems, support, and platform contracts.
Develop, publish, and deploy IT best practices throughout JBI.
Manage daily and annual budgets, spending, and out-of-cycle purchases.
Lead development and deployment of enterprise governance for technology investments, business enablement, and emerging capabilities.
Establish a formal project management intake and approval process covering business cases, ROI, CBA, budgets, and resource requirements.
Manage and report on resource utilization and management.
Work with Finance to manage capital controls for project approvals and budget expenditures.
Evaluate and recommend internal, external, or hybrid solutions for key business functions, including ERP and CRM.
Define, deploy, and provide security, compliance, and governance frameworks in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley standards to identify, manage, and mitigate business continuity risks.
Embed GDR, audit, and compliance-related functions in standard IT operational processes.
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on JBI.
Ensure key IT functions are peer-reviewed by appropriate executive members, including Legal, Finance, and Strategy.
Deploy enterprise controls.
Document and capture business processes, workflows, and functions used in the current ERP solution.
Identify affordable, best-of-breed solutions for JBI requirements, including WMS and SCM.
Recommend, develop, and support an architecture for cost-effective, manageable critical business applications.
Lead the creation and maintenance of an integration architecture that supports onboarding and offboarding technologies, organizations, and business lines.
Implement an innovation capability to evaluate and pilot emerging technologies and industry trends.
Maintain an IT strategic roadmap that identifies legacy, current, and future technologies and aligns them with capital investment and business growth plans.
Evaluate opportunities to use emerging technologies, including ML, AI, and Process Mining, and make them available for business evaluation.
Develop and deploy a comprehensive cyber and information security strategy to protect and ensure the resilience of JBI enterprise assets.
Use layered security products to reduce risk and enhance the enterprise security posture.
Maintain a consistent user training and awareness cadence to reduce security incident risks.
Train staff to respond to and manage information security incidents.
Maintain close working relationships with Legal regarding information security, data privacy, and cyber threats.
Ensure an appropriate data classification process is in place for security events.
Perform other duties as assigned.