VP of Digital Strategy
About the role
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. Ensure we keep the text exactly, maybe preserve line breaks? Not needed. Responsibilities: Under "Key Responsibilities" there are bullet points with headings like "Digital strategy and value realization", "Data and analytics", "AI governance (new — from Director draft)", "Digital Tools And Customer Experience", "Implementation and vendor management", "Adoption and change management". Each has sub-bullets. We need to output- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to represent each responsibility as a list item, possibly with nested lists for subpoints. The instruction: Use
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1. Digital strategy and value realization
- Set and own the digital strategy, roadmap, and execution plan that leadership understands and supports
- Build and own a prioritized pipeline of digital use cases, each with a sized business case and a mechanism to track value realization
- Partner with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to modernize workflows: map current-state processes, design the technology- and AI-enabled future state, and define the value case for getting there
- Drive strategy through execution with clear milestones, ownership, and accountability
- Ensure digital initiatives support growth, acquisitions, and operational scale
2. Data and analytics
- Stand up the data and analytics foundation and champion data-driven decision making across the organization
- Deliver the reporting and analytics layer the business runs on: executive KPIs, location-level operating dashboards, and self-service analytics for commercial and operations leaders
3. AI governance (new — from Director draft)
- Develop and maintain the AI strategy and transformation roadmap
- Establish an AI governance framework — responsible AI principles, policy, and risk management protocols
- Set security, privacy, compliance, and ethical standards for AI systems
- Evaluate and recommend third-party AI platforms and tools (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Databricks)
4. Digital Tools And Customer Experience
- Own rollout of customer-facing digital tools, e.g. order tracking and status visibility, eCommerce, and punchout/EDI for large accounts
- Own rollout of commercial enablement tools, e.g. pricing analytics, cross-sell analytics, and AI-assisted order entry and quote generation
- Partner with Operations to roll out operational efficiency tools, e.g. demand forecasting and inventory optimization
5. Implementation and vendor management
- Translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions
- Determine the right implementation path for each initiative — build, buy, or partner — backed by a clear analysis of cost, speed to value, and fit with our systems
- Run the vendor selection process, from requirements and shortlist through evaluation and commercial terms
- Oversee implementation and optimization of the customer-facing, commercial, and operational digital tools, partnering with the VP of IT and the VP of Operations on the ERP, WMS, and infrastructure foundations they depend on
- Manage vendors while holding internal teams accountable for delivery
6. Adoption and change management
- Lead change management, communication, and adoption across executive and frontline teams
- Lead and develop digital, systems, and cross-functional project teams
Now Qualifications: Under "Qualifications" heading.
List:
- 8+ years leading digital, systems, or transformation teams in B2B environments
- Experience in electrical, industrial, or wholesale distribution strongly preferred
- Track record of delivering quantified business outcomes from digital initiatives, with specific numbers to point to
- Proven ability to translate business needs into technical solutions, then communicate the value back to the business
- Strong understanding of ERP, CRM, eCommerce, data, and systems integration; ERP experience with Epicor Eclipse preferred (added)
- Working proficiency with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric) (added)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architecture; familiarity with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) a plus (added)
- Advanced understanding of AI/ML capabilities, limitations, use cases, and governance frameworks (added)
- Hands-on experience redesigning business processes and leading the change management that makes a new way of working stick
- Experience integrating acquisitions (systems, data, and digital channels) strongly preferred
- Track record of building data and analytics capability from the ground up
- Comfortable working with executives and frontline teams
- Demonstrated success leading teams through execution, not just planning
Also there is "Leadership Profile" after Qualifications. Could be considered Skills.
Leadership Profile bullet points:
- Hands-on leader. Not just a strategist
- Builder who drives accountability and momentum
- Effective operating in a matrixed environment
- Clear communicator who brings structure to complexity
We could put these under Skills section as list items.
Now Benefits: Under "Benefits" heading.
List:
- Medical, dental, life and vision insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan and Match
- Paid Time Off
- Specified Paid Holidays
Now we need to ensure we don't include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" etc. Not present.
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We'll have:
- Digital strategy and value realization
- Set and own the digital strategy, roadmap, and execution plan that leadership understands and supports
- Build and own a prioritized pipeline of digital use cases, each with a sized business case and a mechanism to track value realization
- Partner with Sales
About the role
VETERANS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY Lonestar is one of the fastest-growing electrical distributors in the country. The next stage of that growth runs on digital: how customers order and track, how our locations price and stock, and how we turn our data into decisions. This role leads the company's digital strategy and the teams that execute it. The focus is practical transformation — turning strategy into action across sales, operations, and supply chain. This is a hands-on leadership role accountable for outcomes, adoption, and measurable business impact. At its core, the role is the interface between the business and technology: identify, prioritize, and deliver digital initiatives that create measurable business value — automation that reduces manual work, data and analytics that drive better and faster decisions, customer-facing tools that enhance our commercial processes, and operational efficiency initiatives across our locations. The role reports to the Chief Administrative Officer and works as a peer to the VP of IT and the VP of Operations, who own the systems foundation (ERP, WMS, infrastructure) that digital initiatives build on. They will also drive and promote our passion to MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Responsibilities
- Digital strategy and value realization
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have top-level