JOB SUMMARY

• Works with Executive Management to clearly understand and align IT with future growth, direction, and change
• Develops and aligns IT direction, scale and roadmap based a clear understanding and agreed upon path with the business strategy

• Drives the digital adoption and transformation, enabling data driven decision making throughout the organization
• Invests significant energy in understanding each of the assigned operating business units, their markets and how they utilize technology. Develops cost effective solutions to enhance their competitive advantage
• Acts as business strategist, change leader and technical evangelist to the uniform divisions and consultative services to the other divisions
• With Executive Leadership, develops appropriate investment and annual operating budgets to support required operations while maintaining OpEx & CapEx targets
• Develops and maintains highly collaborative working relationships with key executives, sponsors and functions
• Provides strategic vision, guidance, and insights to the SGC Executive Team.
• Provides clear and consistent leadership across the assigned operating businesses, with an eye to the unique requirements of shared resources yet independent operations
• Develops and aligns IT strategy, roadmap, and policy with SGC strategic operational direction.

• Manages daily and annual budget, spend management and out of cycle purchases
• Develops, publishes, and deploys IT Best Practices throughout the SGC enterprise
• Defines KPI & Metrics to enable the effective measurement of IT performance
• Communicates clear translation of Corporate Strategy to IT initiatives and leads development of planning, implementation, and execution
• Develops and mentors the IT leadership team, providing verbal and written direction, goals, feedback, and guidance
• Manages key vendor relationships, negotiates critical systems, support, and platform contracts.
• Designs, develops, and implements IT organization design to meet SGC operational requirements

• Evaluates and recommends internal, external or hybrid solutions in support of key business functions (EDI, CRM etc.).
• Integrates with finance team to manage Capital Controls for project approvals and budget expenditures.
• Manages and reports on Resource Utilization and Management
• Develops and deploys and Enterprise Project Management capability
• Provides a formal project management intake and approval process (business case, ROI, CBA, budget, resource requirements)
• Leads the development of and deploy an enterprise governance capability to provide controls for investments in technology, business enablement and emerging capabilities
• Creates Cross Functional Leadership functions to effectively manage the Uniform Divisions’ technology requirements, while reducing redundant resources across the enterprise.

• Ensures the GDR, audit and compliance related functions become embedded in standard IT Operational processes
• Ensures that key IT functions are peer reviewed by appropriate executive members (legal, finance, strategy)
• Deploys enterprise controls such as CMDB, Change/Control, Asset Mgmt.
• Defines, deploys, and provides Security, Compliance and Governance frameworks in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley standards to identify, manage and mitigate risk to business continuity
• Stays abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the potential to impact SGC’s organization or environment

• Creates, documents, and captures key business processes, workflows and functions utilized in current ERP solution
• Identifies industry best of breed affordable solutions to meet SGC requirements around WMS, SCM, etc.
• Leads the creation and maintenance of an Integration Architecture that allow for the on/off boarding of technologies, organizations, and business lines
• Recommends, Develops and supports an Architecture that creates a cost effective, manageable solution for critical business applications

• 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 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.
• 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 SGC users to reduce risks associated with security incidents
• Develops and deploys a comprehensive Cyber and InfoSec strategy to provide a broad multi-fabric security solution capable of ensuring the resilience of SGC’s enterprise assets.
• Continuously trains staff to appropriately respond and manage through Information Security Incidents should they occur.

• Able to develop and maintain working professional relationships across a broad spectrum of personalities
• Strong communication skills – ability to synthesize technical information in order to clearly and concisely articulate solutions, strategies, etc. to senior leaders
• Data-driven decision maker
• 15 + years’ experience including as an IT Leader in a diversified business operating on multiple platforms with total annual revenues exceeding $400M
• Preferred, Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer or software engineering, or information systems; MBA or other advanced level degree a plus or relevant experience
• Possesses a bias for action and building leadership consensus when appropriate
• Ability to develop cross-functional partnerships across multiple levels of the organization

• Strategic Talent Management – Senior Leaders attract, hire, engage, and develop talented people to build the capabilities required for the organization to perform at high levels.
• Leading Change – They effectively create a vision for change and engage others to implement the change process.
• Leadership Communication – They generate a shared commitment to the organization, building morale and encouraging ownership of mission, goals, and values.
• Deliberative Decision Making – They tend to gather, consider, and evaluate all relevant information to make logical conclusions before being moved to action.
• Decisiveness – They tend toward taking calculated risks by making decisions and taking action, even in the absence of all information.
• Leadership Maturity – Senior Leaders serve as role models for performance and organizational behavior by demonstrating humility, confidence, and courage in their leadership role.
• Organizational Savvy – They are able to gather and accurately assess information related to the organization’s formal and informal communication channels and power relationships.
• Strategic Thinking – Senior Leaders develop and help drive a shared understanding of a long-term vision that describes how the organization needs to operate now and in the future.