Head of IT Strategy & Delivery Excellence

As the Head of IT Strategy & Delivery Excellence, you serve as the “COO of IT” and the CIO’s primary strategic partner. Your mission is to transition the organization from a traditional, process-heavy PMO to a high-velocity Value Management Office (VMO). This is a Player-Coach role: you will personally lead high-stakes strategic initiatives while building a lean, world-class team that treats IT as a value-driver, not a cost center.

Modernized Value Management (The VMO)

• Outcome-Led Governance: Replace “heavy” PMO checklists with automated governance. Focus on Value Velocity-the speed at which an idea becomes a business result.

• Investment & FinOps: Act as the “CFO of IT,” managing the CapEx/OpEx budget and implementing FinOps to optimize cloud spend and TCO transparency.

• Strategic Intake: Implement a “Value-First” prioritization framework to ensure the enterprise focuses on the best initiatives.

• M&A & Transformation: Personally lead the IT integration playbook for new acquisitions, ensuring rapid time-to-value for the ownership group.

II. Agile Delivery & The “Light” PMO

• Adaptive Delivery: Design a “Lean-Agile” framework where Project Managers act as?Enablers, not “Taskmasters.”

• Organizational Change Management (OCM): Lead the human side of digital transformation, ensuring user adoption is measured as a key project success metric.

• Self-Service Enablement: Build “Project Kits” that allow business units to run smaller initiatives without heavy IT oversight, keeping the central team lean.

III. Business Relationship & Workforce Strategy

• Strategic BRM: Act as the primary partner to the CFO, COO, and Sales VPs to co-author their long term digital roadmaps.

• IT Digital Branding: Own the “Story of IT.” Use intentional internal communications to market IT’s successes and value to the board and ownership.

• Workforce Evolution: Design the talent roadmap to upskill the organization in AI, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

The “1-to-Many” Team Evolution

This role follows a phased growth model, allowing the leader to establish credibility as a Player-Coach before scaling the organization.

Phase 1: Foundation (The Player-Coach)

• The Focus: Personal leadership of the enterprise’s top 2-3 strategic initiatives.

• The Goal: Stand up the “Business of IT” framework (Intake, ROI Tracking, and FinOps) and establish a “Light PMO” culture.

Phase 2: Scale (The Strategic Core)

• The Hire: Add a Value Analyst (IT Finance/ROI) and a Delivery Orchestrator?(Agile/OCM).
• The Goal: Offload tactical execution to focus on long-term IT Strategy and M&A integration playbooks.

Phase 3: Maturity (The Strategic Partner)

• The Hire: Expand to include Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and Technical Writers/Change Specialists.

• The Goal: Full integration of IT into every business unit, shifting the team from “executors” to “strategic consultants.”

Do you have experience in Presentation skills?, * Experience: 3+ years in IT leadership or Management Consulting. You have seen “Big Tech” scale but prefer the agility of a privately owned environment.

• The Player-Coach DNA: You are just as comfortable building a 3-year financial model in Excel as you are presenting a transformation roadmap to the Board.

• Modern SDLC Knowledge: You advocate for DevOps and Product-centric delivery over “Waterfall” status reporting.

• Influence: Ability to push back on the C-Suite with data-driven insights while maintaining high-trust relationships.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays, * A family culture and atmosphere
• Competitive compensation
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance for full-time team members
• 401(k) with generous company match
• Paid vacations and holidays
• Immense training and growth opportunities

Founded in 1960, AVI Foodsystems has evolved into one of the most respected and trusted food service companies in the nation. Providing comprehensive food services with a focus on the highest quality and freshest ingredients, impeccable service and total value is the reputation we have earned and live up to everyday.