VP Information Technology

Job Title: VP of Information Technology

Location: Simpsonville, SC

Reports to: Dodge President

Employment Type: Full-time

Seniority Level: Executive

Industry: Manufacturing | Mechanical Power Transmission Components | Engineering Services

Job Function: Information Technology | Strategy | Digital Transformation

Job Summary: 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction
• 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.
Team Leadership
• Manage a team of IT professionals, fostering collaboration and high performance.
• Oversee application development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
• Drive process improvement and streamlined workflows.
Financial Management
• Prepare annual budgets, analyze expenditures, and forecast requirements.
• Support long-term and short-term objectives through IT business and budget plans.
Risk Management & Cybersecurity
• Establish and lead risk management and compliance processes.
• Provide technical guidance on information security operations.
• Develop and implement cybersecurity strategies.
Relationship Building
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to develop technology strategies.
• Build effective relationships with management and staff across business units.

Required Qualifications:
• 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.

Physical Requirements:
• Extended periods of sitting and/or standing at a workstation.
• Speaking in person and over the telephone or Teams online and the ability to hear, comprehend, and document detailed information from others.
• Ability to type, reach and grasp.
• Intermittent standing and walking within the office environment.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing for extended periods over the phone and in person.
• Occasional lifting or carrying of objects weighing less than 10 lbs.

Essential Job Functions:
• Solutions: 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.
• IT delivery: 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.
• IT Standards and Compliance: 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.
• Stakeholder management: Acts as a single point of contact between leadership and IT function to develop and maintain strong relationships, provide clear accountability, and avoid complexities.
• Demand management: 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.
• IT Strategy: 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.
• People leadership and development: 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.

Why Join Us?
• 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.