Mgr IT Commodity Marketing

Responsibilities

• Leads a hard-working team of business systems analysts and developers and coordinates workforce planning and career development activities for team members
• Builds strong relationships with business partners and external vendors
• Drives standardization of application platforms across all dedicated business areas, enables simplification, and finds opportunities to fully use existing system functionality
• Creates a strategic roadmap for the business areas that align with overall IT strategy for the company
• Maintains a solid understanding of industry and technology trends as they apply to the aligned business areas
• Serves as a solution provider to business partners including evaluation and analysis of system changes and new systems
• Provides project leadership and management of business initiatives following project lifecycle, testing and all applicable policies and procedures
• Prepares, monitors and manages capital and expense budgets

Requirements

• Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
• Exemplary vendor management skills
• Strong knowledge of technology trends and ability to translate those trends into effective business applications
• Experience partnering with leaders across IT and business to deliver a technology roadmap
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree and minimum of seven (7) years' experience in IT, including a minimum of two (2) years in a formal or informal leadership role
• PREFERRED: Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field
• PREFERRED: Knowledge in implementation or support of cloud/SaaS applications
• PREFERRED: Experience in the energy or utility industries
• PREFERRED: Understanding of current and future state strategies for automation technology
• PREFERRED: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• PREFERRED: Strong SQL experience and knowledge of common enterprise systems such as CRMs, ERPs, BI, and financial systems

Benefits

• Flexibility to align work hours with business processes for special projects, such as after-hours system deployments, upgrades, and support