Director of Technology Strategy, Portfolio, Vendors & IT Finance

Date:
Oct 2, 2026

Location:

Chicago, IL, US, 60606

Company: simsmetalm

Salary Range:  -  USD

Founded in Australia in 1917, Sims Limited (Sims) is a global leader in metal recycling and circular solutions for technology. We play a critical role in advancing circularity anddecarbonisationby supplying recycled materials and re-purposed products that help preserve our planet.

At Sims, we believe in developing our people. With a strong promote-from-within philosophy and a range ofprogrammesthat support continuous learning, we offer opportunities for meaningful, long-term careers. Employing more than 4,100 people worldwide, weoperateover 155 facilities across 13 countries. Simsprovidesthe stability, transparency, and professional growth opportunities of a publicly traded organisation, all driven by our purpose: to create a world without waste.

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 Chief Technology Officer.

The role is responsible for translating business and technology strategy into an integrated roadmap, transparent investment portfolio, disciplined operating cadence, and measurable outcomes. The position brings together technology strategy, portfolio management, financial governance, vendor and commercial management, workforce planning, executive reporting and leadership-team operations.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate must be able to shape strategy and executive-level decisions while personally creating and operating the practical processes, data, dashboards, governance routines and solutions required to run the technology function effectively. Managed services partners will provide additional capacity and specialist support, but accountability for designing, implementing and operating these mechanisms remains with this role.

The position will create a single, reliable view of technology priorities, demand, capacity, cost, risk, dependencies, and value. The role will help leadership make clear choices about where to invest, what to stop, what to simplify, and how to hold teams and partners accountable for delivery.

• Partner with the CTO and technology leadership team to develop, maintain and communicate the global technology strategy.
• Translate enterprise priorities into a coherent multi-year technology roadmap, annual operating plan, and prioritized set of initiatives.
• Establish and continuously improve the global technology operating model, including decision rights, governance forums, accountability, and performance measures.
• Coordinate strategic planning cycles and ensure alignment among business priorities, technology capabilities, financial constraints, workforce capacity and risk.
• Lead strategic analysis on organizational design, sourcing, investment trade-offs, technology simplification and operating model improvements.
• Track strategic commitments and ensure decisions are converted into clear owners, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Support the CTO in preparing executive, CEO, ELT, Board and Risk Committee materials.
• Establish and personally operate the enterprise technology portfolio process across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, AI and major transformation programs.
• Create and maintain a single source of truth for technology demand, approved initiatives, delivery status, investment, benefits, dependencies, risks and resource requirements.
• Lead demand intake, business-case standards, prioritization, sequencing, and portfolio review.
• Introduce consistent criteria for assessing strategic…