Chief Information Officer

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the Technology team in setting and executing a clear enterprise IT and digital strategy aligned with Greenbrier’s business priorities, operating model, and long-term growth objectives.
• Lead technology execution across three core workstreams: Run (operational stability), Improve (automation and process enhancement) and Transform (platform modernization and analytics enablement).
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology investments, risk, and value creation.
• People & Culture Leadership Focus:
  • Buils, mentors, and empowers diverse technology teams, cultivating a culture of collaboration, learning, and high performance.
  • Sets clear expectations, develops future leaders, and promotes inclusive decision-making while holding teams accountable for results, security, and service quality.
• Operational Excellence & Manufacturing Enablement:
  • Operate effectively within manufacturing and shop-floor environments, partnering with plant leadership to support uptime, safety, productivity, and quality.
  • Collaborate to ensure partnership on solutions for operational technology, infrastructure, and cybersecurity capabilities that support distributed manufacturing and maintenance operations.
  • Ensure technology solutions are pragmatic, scalable, and resilient in asset-intensive environments.
• Digital Transformation & Platforms:
  • Provide leadership oversight for major enterprise initiatives, including: Microsoft 365 ERP implementation in North America, Salesforce deployment and planned mid-year integrations, TMS and Costing System modernization, and Leasing-solution RFP with an emphasis on analytics and data visibility.
  • Drive simplification, standardization, and improved ownership across historically siloed systems and processes.
• Data, Analytics & Leasing Enablement:
  • Partner closely with leasing leadership to mature Greenbrier’s data and analytics capabilities, supporting pricing, utilization, maintenance planning, and customer insights.
  • Enable data-driven decision-making across a portfolio that spans owned assets, managed fleets, and joint ventures.
  • Establish foundational data governance and reporting disciplines that can scale with the business.
• Organization, Governance & Influence:
  • Lead a geographically distributed IT organization operating effectively through influence where direct reporting lines do not exist.
  • Build strong cross-functional partnerships across finance, operations, supply chain, leasing, manufacturing and commercial teams.
  • Introduce clarity around decision rights, prioritization, and accountability in a decentralized operating model.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field required.
  • 5+ years of prior CIO experience within an industrial, manufacturing, or asset-intensive environment, including leading diverse teams to execute to the strategic plan.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at both day-to-day operational and enterprise strategic levels.
  • Experience leading technology across multi-line businesses and complex ownership structures, including joint ventures.
  • Strong business orientation in financial & operational expertise with executive communication skills.
  • Comfort operating in plant, shop-floor, and OT environments.
  • Able to lead through influence in matrixed and joint-venture structures.
  • Foster a transparent & collaborative environment.
  • Change leadership capability in organizations with varying levels of digital maturity.
  • Calm, credible presence with the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity.