Director, It Jobs

At Advantive, we make purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses that streamline complex processes, optimize operations visibility and throughput, and drive improved quality, profitability, and revenue growth. Deeply embedded in our customers’ businesses, Advantive’s software solutions add value along the full manufacturing and distribution lifecycle.

Our customers, who include corrugated and packaging manufacturers, equipment and supply wholesale distributors, and automotive and other specialty manufacturers, benefit from our solutions that have been honed over decades in the marketplace. We know our customers’ businesses intimately and deliver software to address their needs.

We are seeking an IT Director whose mandate will be to develop and implement a global IT strategy aiming at improving our business processes and our global organization effectiveness.

You will be responsible for building a world-class IT department. Your responsibilities will entail the management of the IT infrastructure and business solutions, end-user services and compliance to industry standards. This is a full- time position with excellent benefits located in Tampa, Florida.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of system administrators, application analysts, desktop support specialists
• Responsible for the administration, maintenance, roadmap and implementation for the corporate infrastructure and business solutions
• Support Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity efforts by contributing to the development of Business Continuity Plan
• Establish a reference enterprise architecture covering the IT infrastructure, IT systems and business solutions
• Work in collaboration with the Quality Management Department to implement solutions to support compliance to information security management (ISO 27001), applicable regulations and industry standards; lead significant improvement programs related to IT Compliance policy, process, and procedure
• Communicate the IT strategy to executive management, and key stakeholders across the company
• Manage the Enterprise IT project portfolio
• Build strategic relationships across business lines; be an IT expert and change leader that can bridge technical and non-technical requirements, understand business goals, identify business process gaps and propose solutions
• Establish goals for IT department employees, develop their competencies and manage their performance on an ongoing basis. Offer employees ongoing support and coaching to maximize team engagement and performance
• Execute on plans to deliver on the IT strategy: organizational structure, IT processes & policies, staffing plans, operational plans, third-party vendor relationships, capex/opex budget planning and management
• Ensure excellent end-user services, on global basis
• Responsible for all aspects of IT security, compliance, and risk management
• Develop an Enterprise IT strategy that supports our business growth and increase our effectiveness. The strategy will cover IT infrastructure, enterprise-wide business solutions (e.g., CRM, ERP, CPQ, ITSM, process automation, etc.) and end-user services

Employment Prerequisites

• Demonstrated ability to lead IT initiatives related to major business process improvements/automation and implementation of Enterprise business solutions (e.g. ERP, CRM, CPQ, billing systems, ITSM, etc.)
• Broad experience in all aspects of IT: infrastructure & cloud services, business process automation, business solutions, end-user services
• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in information technologies including five (5) years of management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Information Technology discipline
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with technical and non - technical staff across multiple disciplines and hierarchical levels within a company

Desired Competencies

• Strong organizational/collaborative leadership and change management experience
• Ability to convey and implement a vision for IT that will sustain organization long term goals
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills