IT Director ; Inst

The Adaptive Planning and Forecasting Associate Director will provide critical leadership as the lead of the Budget and Planning Team, with a focus on supporting business objectives while managing system maintenance, release management and continuous improvement. This position will also ensure operational alignment of resources and technology solutions to Universities of Wisconsin business needs and initiatives.

The Adaptive Planning and Forecasting Associate Director will be the primary provider of leadership and support for the Workday Adaptive Planning module. The person in this role will partner closely with Universities of Wisconsin business leaders to ensure operational needs are successfully enabled by technology solutions. They will ensure operational success measures are met and will identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness.

They are responsible for effective communication and reporting to functional stakeholders, collaborating across lines of business to manage cross‑functional topics and working closely with leadership to maintain alignment and provide the information required when and how they need it.

The Adaptive Planning and Forecasting Associate Director serves as the liaison between the business and technology and helps align the strategic vision of the organization to the enterprise applications enabling it. They will be responsible for the successful facilitation of ongoing governance and prioritization efforts (including decision‑making and issue/risk management) with their business partners to ensure the team is aligned with the highest value initiatives for their functional lines of business.

Workday and associated technology advancements will be monitored to advise business leaders on new technology solutions becoming available to meet their strategic needs. The Associate Director will contribute to the UW enterprise applications product road map, facilitate key decisions regarding system configuration and operation, advocate for the product internally, and represent the team in meetings with peers and leaders across the university and broader product user community.

The Associate Director will lead continuous improvement efforts for their functional area, relentlessly prioritizing backlogged items to ensure the team is delivering the most valuable solutions. They will seek opportunities to eliminate gaps and implement solutions that add value to the business through alignment of product and business strategy, facilitate the constant grooming of the product backlog, ensuring resources are focused on the initiatives that will create and add the most value, and facilitate the uptake of new system functionality in order to stay current and take full advantage of the cloud product.

The Associate Director will lead a team responsible for updating and implementing new system configuration and provide guidance to shared capability resources aligned to the workstream. In this role, they will supervise a team of admins and business analysts that will partner with business leaders to design, configure, test and deploy solutions both within and across ERP technologies to meet the ever‑changing needs of the business.

• Develop operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives.
• Serve as liaison representing the interests of the institution to internal and external stakeholders.
• Exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full‑time equivalent employees.
• Advise institutional or divisional leadership on information technology operations and business models.
• May develop and audit institutional budgets and/or financials.
• May perform manager functions.
• Intentionally collaborate with peers across Workday and Enterprise Solutions Team to form a cohesive and well‑functioning leadership team.
• Direct strategic information technology planning initiatives and establish objectives for the institution to ensure appropriate use of financial,…