IT Director-St. Louis, MO
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Location: Saint Louis, MO 63129
Description:
IT Director
Location: St. Louis, MO
Duration: Full Time
Salary plus Benefits
Job Summary:
Overall responsible for Applications and technology lifecycle management. This includes the strategic development, management and operation of applications and IT services. In addition, responsible for the local Infra and tech operations including helpdesk support sites.
To provide leadership, manage strategic and tactical planning in their areas of responsibility, manage vendor relationships and contracts, project coordination and development of infrastructure and application solutions that efficiently supports the objectives of the North American D2C business.
As a key member of the Global IT leadership team this role contributes to the development and execution of the enterprise wide IT strategy and is responsible for ensuring delivery of compelling business value.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Location: St. Louis, MO
Duration: Full Time
Salary plus Benefits
Job Summary:
Overall responsible for Applications and technology lifecycle management. This includes the strategic development, management and operation of applications and IT services. In addition, responsible for the local Infra and tech operations including helpdesk support sites.
To provide leadership, manage strategic and tactical planning in their areas of responsibility, manage vendor relationships and contracts, project coordination and development of infrastructure and application solutions that efficiently supports the objectives of the North American D2C business.
As a key member of the Global IT leadership team this role contributes to the development and execution of the enterprise wide IT strategy and is responsible for ensuring delivery of compelling business value.
Key Responsibilities
- Defines and executes the vision and strategy relating to Applications and IT services
- Provides leadership, vision and direction to her/his organization to ensure it will contribute to the company achieving its goals.
- Works closely together with the Parent Company IT Shared Services function on the development and support of enterprise technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics.
- Builds successful stakeholder relationships with other IT and business leaders by developing a clear understanding of business needs, acting as a trusted advisor, and ensuring cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs.
- Work closely together with Business Systems owners and Key Users with Governance and application lifecycle management related matters.
- Develops and controls the annual IT budget to ensure that it is consistent with the overall strategic objectives of IT and the business and that it is delivered within plan.
- Works closely together with IT leadership team on the design and management of a comprehensive and integrated ITSM landscape, based on best-practice processes, disciplines and related toolsets.
- Drives a high level of adoption of Information technology and Information systems across the business.
- Manage personnel and continuously assess and address new needs and skills gap to meet the needs of the organization.
- Manages external vendors and contractual agreements
- Understand and drive optimization of Business processes and ensure that they are efficiently supported through information technology
Required Qualifications
- BSc or MSc in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience in leading IT transformation in a direct to consumer (D2C) business context.
- +15 years' experience of working with Information Technology (Infra and Applications)
- + 10 years' experience of leadership roles.
- We are looking for someone with some combination of the following:
- Applications Implementation (ERP/CRM/Financials etc)
- Call center systems
- Data privacy, Hipaa, CCPA
- Business process optimization, RPA
- Integrations, middleware, SOA, EA - Enterprise architecture