Position Summary:
The IT Director acts as the strategic interface between the DEHU/DOAS and Energy Recovery businesses and the technology function. The position is responsible for understanding business needs, aligning IT solutions with business objectives, and ensuring the successful delivery of the solutions. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to drive innovation, improve processes, and enhance overall business performance through technology.
Position Responsibilities:
- Strategic Alignment: Partner with business leaders to understand their goals and objectives and align IT strategies to support these goals.
- Technology Innovation/Application Roadmap: Based on the business strategy, set a rolling 3 year application/innovation roadmap.
- Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of IT projects, ensuring they meet business requirements and are completed on time and within budget.
- Innovation and Improvement: Bring ideas and identify opportunities for process improvements and technological innovations that can enhance business performance.
- Stakeholder Communication and Change Management: Facilitate effective communication between IT and business units, ensuring stakeholders are informed about IT initiatives, progress, and issues. Ensure a change management workstream as part of projects, and that the business can effectively use new technology.
- Interface with IT Operations: IT Operations (Infrastructure, Security, and Help Desk) is led by the Madison Air CISO/VP Infrastructure. This leader and the group is a strong partner to the IT Director DDER.
- Performance Monitoring: Track and report on the performance of IT services and projects, using metrics and KPIs. Hold team and partners accountable to successful delivery.
Key Relationships:
- DDER President, Leaders of DDER companies, Leadership Teams of these companies, as well as department leaders and managers as designed by leadership.
- DDER Employees – The position is responsible to interact with employees and understand goals and pain points. Employees are located in Canada and various locations in US.
- Madison Air CIO and IT leadership counterparts across the portfolio. DDER is part of the Madison Air family. The CIO of Madison Air is responsible for overall strategy. This position does not report to the CIO and we design a role such as this to report directly into Madison Air member companies as it is the business where they need to be focused. However, the position is a still member of the larger IT team by nature of responsibilities and a part of the IT leader team, and our Technology Enterprise Council. The position will have support from and interaction with the CIO and the other IT leaders at the other companies.
- Madison Air CISO and their security, infrastructure and service teams: These disciplines report through the Madison Air CISO to get consistency and scale in the way we deliver IT operations. The CISO is a partner and key contact for the IT Director. We work together to accomplish goals.
- AI Council – The IT director will also interact with the Madison Air AI Council
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8+ years of IT leadership experience
- Experience implementing various business applications
- Experience implementing technology for the manufacturing industry
- Delivered proven business results (i.e. productivity gains, revenue growth, cost savings)
- Project Management
- Financial Management for IT
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on customer service
- Experience working in an ambitious, high growth environment.
- Experience managing direct reports.
- Located in Madison, WI or another DDER location. Travel required up to 50% in the initial onboarding phase and 25% thereafter.
