Director of Technology Strategy, Portfolio, Vendors & IT Finance

Role Summary

The Director, Technology Strategy, Portfolio, Vendors & IT Finance leads the Office of the CTO and serves as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the CTO.

This is the operating engine of the technology function—not an administrative Chief of Staff role. The Director integrates technology strategy, portfolio governance, financial management, vendor and commercial leadership, workforce planning, executive reporting, and leadership operations.

The role translates business and technology strategy into an integrated roadmap, prioritized investment portfolio, disciplined operating cadence, and measurable outcomes. It is explicitly hands-on: the Director will build and operate the processes, governance, data, dashboards, and practical solutions required to run the technology organization effectively, using managed services partners where appropriate.

The Director creates a trusted, consolidated view of technology priorities, demand, capacity, cost, risk, dependencies, and value, enabling leadership to make clear decisions about where to invest, what to simplify, and what to stop.

• Partner with the CTO and technology leadership to develop and communicate global technology strategy.
• Translate enterprise priorities into multi-year roadmaps, annual plans, and prioritized initiatives.
• Establish and continuously improve the technology operating model, governance, decision rights, accountability, and performance measures.
• Lead strategic analysis of organization design, sourcing, investment trade-offs, simplification, and operating-model improvements.
• Track strategic commitments and ensure decisions translate into clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Prepare executive, CEO, ELT, Board, and Risk Committee materials.
• Establish and operate an enterprise portfolio process spanning applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data/AI, and transformation programs.
• Create a single source of truth for demand, initiatives, investment, benefits, dependencies, risks, capacity, and delivery status.
• Lead demand intake, business-case standards, prioritization, sequencing, and portfolio reviews.
• Establish consistent investment criteria based on strategic alignment, value, risk, regulatory requirements, architecture, capacity, and total cost.
• Facilitate investment and prioritization decisions with the CTO and technology leadership.
• Monitor portfolio health and elevate delivery, financial, capacity, dependency, and benefits risks.
• Build and operate portfolio dashboards, decision logs, executive reports, and governance materials.

• Own the technology financial-management process in partnership with Finance.
• Coordinate budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, investment scenarios, and monthly financial reviews.
• Provide transparent views of operating expense, capital investment, project spend, vendor costs, commitments, and forecast variance.
• Connect technology costs to services, risk, capacity, business value, and strategic outcomes.
• Support business cases and consistent treatment of costs, benefits, funding, capitalization, and benefits realization.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, demand management, application retirement, simplification, contract optimization, and vendor consolidation.
• Strengthen financial accountability across technology leadership.
• Establish and operate a strategic vendor-management framework.
• Maintain a consolidated view of key suppliers, contracts, renewals, commitments, spend, performance, risk, and strategic importance.
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Cybersecurity, and technology leaders on sourcing, negotiations, renewals, and contracts.
• Lead commercial governance for major technology vendors and outsourcing…