Job Description

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.