VP Information Technology

Dodge Industrial • Simpsonville, SC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for shaping and delivering a portfolio of IT solutions and services that are aligned with the business. Drives innovation into the portfolio through leveraging emerging technologies, optimizing costs, automation, and improving the ways of working. Gathers, shapes, and prioritizes new business demand within the area of responsibility and challenges requests to ensure all investments are in line with overall business priorities. Acts as a single point of contact to ensure end-to-end service for Dodge leadership, as well as for respective geographical scope. Develop and maintain strong relationships with management, provide clear accountability, and avoid complexities. Maintain a reliable, technically proficient application development resource pool focused on supporting core ERP and non-ERP landscapes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of business and/or IT experience in IT strategy, IT solution / service design or IT infrastructure and SAP or other ERP systems, business or IT management / leadership experience.
• Strong leadership, project management, sales management and change management / leadership skills, global management relationship / partnering abilities.
• Demonstrated team leadership to achieve objectives.
• Business acumen and ability to take strategic views from both business and IT perspective.
• Proven performance as a leader in a complex, global organization, where IT transformation efforts were successfully delivered, driving improvement in business outcome, reliability, security, cost, and performance.
• Senior leadership experience, including demonstrated examples of building relationships and management through influence and collaboration in complex, global environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate in oral and written forms both inside and outside the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SAP or other ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technology vision, aligning it with overall business goals.
• Identify and recommend new technologies to enhance efficiency and competitiveness.
• Lead the development and execution of IT strategies.
• Manage a team of IT professionals, fostering collaboration and high performance.
• Oversee application development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
• Drive process improvement and streamlined workflows.
• Prepare annual budgets, analyze expenditures, and forecast requirements.
• Support long-term and short-term objectives through IT business and budget plans.
• Establish and lead risk management and compliance processes.
• Provide technical guidance on information security operations.
• Develop and implement cybersecurity strategies.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to develop technology strategies.
• Build effective relationships with management and staff across business units.
• Proactively collaborates with leadership by articulating needs and priorities to support the build of excellent IT services and solutions portfolio that aligns with business priorities within the IT framework and capacity.
• Gathers, shapes, and prioritizes new demand within the area of responsibility and challenges requests to ensure all investments are in line with overall Dodge priorities and capacity.
• Collaborates with the business to provide insight into technological innovation and market trends, generate ideas for new innovative solutions and services, and identify improvements to existing ones.
• Monitors and communicates IT solutions and service deliveries within the business and supports the execution of requirements within budgeted costs and time schedule.
• Tracks programs and projects to secure that overall expected business value is incrementally delivered and communicates on the value delivered IT.
• Ensures overall effective interaction between RBC Corporate IT and Dodge for application and infrastructure support.
• Oversight of all IT spend across the entirety of the Dodge organization through effect management of IT budget.
• Supports the installation, management, maintenance and optimization of internal IT and cross-functional processes related to IT service delivery or IT service demand.
• Ensures that IT solutions, services and processes (including those of external service providers) are in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation.
• Accountable that IT controls are fulfilled in accordance with the relevant regulatory and legal requirements and in coordination with RBC Corporate and Dodge IT.
• Acts as a single point of contact between leadership and IT function to develop and maintain strong relationships, provide clear accountability, and avoid complexities.
• Consults and provides input for any incident, change or project which has or might have a major impact.
• Informs or consults relevant IT colleagues on any change or project activities which may have a major impact on others’ areas of responsibility.
• Brings insights and conveys business needs from the business and contributes to the development of the overall Dodge IT strategy, roadmap, project portfolio definition and architecture to ensure alignment and strategy.
• Ensures with HR support that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, trained, and managed.
• Regular attendance at work is a necessary function of the job.

Benefits

• Join a collaborative executive leadership team driving digital transformation.
• Lead technology strategy for an industry leader with a strong reputation for innovation and quality.
• Influence enterprise-wide initiatives that directly impact business performance and growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive