IT Director

We are seeking an IT Director to lead technology across all IT domains and oversee the work that supports our customers and IT employees. This is a succession-planning hire to replace a retiring IT leader. The role combines IT financial management, security, and executive decision support. You will lead three direct reports and work with the President, company leaders, customers, and teams in business analysis and project management, IT operations, and data. Success is measured by successful projects and by customer and employee satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT financial matters including budgets, customer billing, and billing disagreements.
• Partner with executives on security risks and investment decisions.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and work through difficult conversations toward win-win outcomes.
• Translate complex technical information into clear decision options for executives.
• Challenge staff to consider alternatives and question proposals.
• Lead a technology-stack review to identify cost reductions as the company separates.
• Contribute to ERP work, acquisition-related initiatives, a possible replacement of a major manufacturing execution system, and security priorities.
• Lead and develop teams across business analysis and project management, IT operations (operational security, infrastructure, end-user computing), and data (DBA, data science, ERP and manufacturing solution architecture).
• Technical experience across IT domains, enough to question proposals and challenge staff.
• Security background, with reasonable depth in security practices and risk.

Financial Management, Technical Leadership, Business Analysis, Decision Support, Project/Program Management, People Management, Succession Planning, Technical Support, Customer Satisfaction, Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS), * Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work through difficult conversations toward win-win outcomes.

• Ability to summarize complex information succinctly for executives.
• Ability to assimilate information and identify what matters for decisions.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Adaptability across larger-company and smaller or family-owned business contexts, including adapting controls to the organization’s risk and context.

Preferred

• Supply-chain experience, particularly in food and beverage.
• AI knowledge and the ability to suggest practical business uses.