About This Role
This executive leadership role is responsible for the company's digital organization, strategy, and roadmap, bringing structure to an international technology landscape. It suits a strategic business leader with deep technology expertise who can translate business priorities into digital decisions and drive business value through IT.
Responsibilities
- Bring structure to an international technology landscape covering enterprise platforms, ERP, business applications, custom software, integrations, customer-facing portals, cloud environments, and external technology partners
- Translate business priorities into digital decisions and challenge the organization on technology enablement
- Define where the company should standardize, modernize, innovate, buy, partner, or build, focusing on business value, operational performance, customer experience, costs, and risks
- Own the digital portfolio and budget, creating clear priorities and a decision framework
- Build robust business cases and ensure investments deliver measurable outcomes
- Focus resources on what matters, challenge weak business cases, and stop initiatives that no longer justify their investment
- Own the digital environment and risk posture
- Bring external providers, development partners, and internal teams into a clear delivery model and hold them accountable for quality, cost, timing, and results
- Ensure cybersecurity, resilience, and technology risk are embedded in architecture, sourcing, and investment decisions
- Set the standard for leadership, accountability, and execution within the digital environment
- Develop multidisciplinary teams across engineering, applications, data, BI, and security
- Create strong connections between technology and the business
- Actively identify opportunities in data, AI, and automation, turning them into focused initiatives with clear business cases and measurable impact
- Operate at board level and challenge architects and technology specialists on substance
- Possess enough technical depth to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and make practical decisions
Requirements
- 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including a significant CIO, CTO, IT Director, or comparable role in an international organization
- Proven experience managing complex enterprise technology landscapes, including ERP, business applications, integrations, custom software, customer portals, and cloud
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, application strategy, IT governance, and portfolio management
- A track record of making investment decisions based on business cases, ROI, risk, and strategic value
- Executive-level experience managing digital budgets, selecting suppliers, and working with different technology partners
