This position reports to the Treasurer and/or the Chief Operating Officer

Qualifications:
· IT applications management experience
· Custom development (requirements gathering through deployment) experience.
· Extensive experience in project management, team leadership, people management, business line ma anagement, and responsibility for profit and loss is critical.
· Departmental budgetary experience
· Non-IT business management experience
· Staff management experience
· Vendor management experience
· Vendor selection experience
· Business training (advanced degree, other)
· Undergraduate and post-graduate degree training
· Senior management team participation experience

Job Responsibilities:
· Overall IT policy and the alignment of information systems across the business units.

· Business technology planning?sponsor collaborative planning processes.

· Applications development?new and existing for enterprise initiatives and overall coordination for business unit initiatives.

· IT infrastructure and architecture?running as well as ensuring that appropriate on-going investments are made.

· Sourcing?make-versus-buy decisions relative to outsourcing versus in-house provisioning of IT services and skills.

· Partnerships?establishing strategic relationships with key IT suppliers and consultants.

· Technology transfer?provide enabling technologies that make it easier for customers to do business with the company as well as increase revenue and profitability.

· Customer satisfaction?interact with internal and external clients to ensure continuous customer satisfaction.

· Understand, communicate with, negotiate with, and influence a wide and diverse group, including senior management, business unit managers, outside business partners, functional VP?s, business process managers, IT staff, end users, and outside vendors. The Director must be able to reconcile differing agendas to properly align the role of technology throughout the corporation. This reconciliation requires experience in presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, personnel management, and political conciliation.

· Deep understanding of a wide range of technologies in terms of costs/benefits, pros/cons, and overall business value. Know the advantages and disadvantages of using particular platforms and how they will affect the business. Able to quickly understand how any proposed technology solution will increase revenues, cut costs, or provide more management control over the business, while reducing risk and maintaining a valid cost/benefit ratio (ROI).