Vice President, Technology & Systems Strategy

MedVet

4d•$185,000 - $250,000

About The Position

The Vice President, Technology & Systems Strategy is a senior leadership role within MedVet's Information Technology organization, reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer. This position serves as the strategic deputy to the CIO and the primary interface between IT and MedVet's healthcare, operations, and support service teams. This is a dual-mandate role. The VP leads the Technology enterprise strategy, systems enablement, and transformation orchestration functions — ensuring that MedVet's hospitals, support functions, and leadership teams have a consistent, credible, and responsive Technology partner — while also owning IT's strategic planning, governance, capital, and portfolio oversight responsibilities. The role is designed for a leader who can operate with equal effectiveness in executive forums and in day-to-day stakeholder relationships. This role includes three direct reports and their respective teams: Director, Digital & Innovation, Director, Technology Delivery, and Technology Partner Manager.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, with at least 3 years in a VP-level role
Demonstrated experience in enterprise strategy, systems enablement, and transformation orchestration, IT demand management, or stakeholder-facing IT leadership
Track record of operating effectively at the executive level — communicating with, influencing, and building trust with senior business leaders
Experience in IT strategic planning, portfolio governance, or technology investment management
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical context into business language and vice versa
Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a maturing, fast-moving IT environment

Nice To Haves

Background in PMO, program management, or organizational delivery — comfort with portfolio visibility and governance frameworks
Experience in healthcare, veterinary, or multi-site service organizations
Familiarity with Microsoft 365, ERP (NetSuite), CRM (Salesforce), and HRIS (UKG Pro) ecosystems
Experience building or formalizing a strategy function from the ground up
Exposure to board-level technology reporting or executive IT communication

Responsibilities

Enterprise strategy, systems enablement, and transformation orchestration
Lead alignment between MedVet’s strategic initiatives and operational goals with the roadmap and work occurring within the technology team to develop and transform systems and technology capabilities to support organizational growth and transformation
Serve as a senior strategic partner to healthcare, operational and support service teams — helping translate organizational priorities into scalable technology and workflow strategies
Partner with IT leadership to shape, prioritize, and sequence enterprise initiatives based on business impact, organizational readiness, resource capacity, and long-term strategic value
Drive cross-functional coordination across technology, operations, support services, and organizational change efforts to ensure initiatives with complex and new technology are executed cohesively and deliver intended outcomes
Establish governance and engagement models that strengthen collaboration between IT and MedVet leaders while ensuring clarity, accountability, and strong cross-functional communication
Lead and evolve a team of strategic technology/business partners responsible for maintaining strong alignment across hospitals, support function, and enterprise initiatives
Represent operational and stakeholder perspectives within enterprise planning, prioritization, investment, and transformation discussions
Identify organizational friction points, dependency risks, and systems gaps early — coordinating with business and IT leaders to proactively address barriers to execution and adoption
Help shape MedVet’s future-state systems strategy by aligning technology capabilities, workflows, and organizational processes to support scalability, caregiver experience, and operational excellence
Partner with the CIO on IT strategy development, multi-year roadmap planning, and organizational design
Serve as the CIO's strategic deputy — representing IT in executive meetings, leadership forums, and cross-functional initiatives when the CIO is unavailable or needs parallel coverage
Co-develop and maintain IT's strategic narrative for internal and external audiences, including board and executive presentations
Help the CIO identify emerging organizational challenges, synthesize input from across the IT leadership team, and pressure-test decisions before they are finalized
Own IT's demand management and investment prioritization process — ensuring the portfolio reflects both business priorities and IT capacity realities
Partner with the Director, Organizational Delivery to maintain portfolio health, track cross-functional dependencies, and surface delivery risks early
Lead the annual IT planning and budgeting cycle, including both capital and expense, coordinating inputs from all IT directors and aligning outputs to MedVet's operational plan
Design and maintain IT governance frameworks that are appropriately lightweight for MedVet's scale while providing the structure needed for accountability
Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team; build manager capability and succession depth within the function
Model collaborative, transparent leadership within the IT director peer group — contributing to a healthy, aligned IT leadership culture
Support the CIO in managing organizational change across the IT organization, including new capability development, restructuring, and change communication