Senior Director, Data and Digital Solutions

NELSON is seeking a Senior Director to lead resource management and strategic resource planning across AI, automation, data, and infrastructure services. This senior leader holds ultimate accountability for translating approved enterprise priorities into coordinated execution, ensuring the people, skills, funding, and enabling technology capacity are aligned to deliver business outcomes.

Reporting to the CIO, with dotted-line functional alignment to the VP of AI and the Digital Services Strategy Leader, this role connects strategy, portfolio planning, workforce management, and delivery oversight. The Senior Director coordinates across data and infrastructure, AI, and other stakeholder teams to resolve competing demands, establish achievable schedules, and report measurable value.

Attributes to support the NELSON culture:

• Go All In. Own the Outcome.We go all in—with urgency, follow-through, and pride in the result.
• Be Direct. Be Respectful. Be Authentic.We keep it real—with clarity, candor, and care.
• Grow with Purpose.We embrace growth—through learning, coaching, and continuous improvement.
• Think Bold. Execute Smart.We think boldly—and pair ambition with discipline.
• Make Space for Everyone.We value you—and build a culture where people can thrive and do their best work.

Qualifications
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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Translate NELSON strategic objectives into an integrated portfolio execution plan for AI, automation, data, and infrastructure initiatives, including sequencing, delivery commitments, and enabling work.
• Lead prioritization with the CIO, the VP of AI and Digital Services Strategy Leader, and business stakeholders, balancing value, urgency, risk, capacity, and dependencies.
• Own portfolio execution accountability across participating teams. Establish milestones, accountable workstream owners, escalation paths, and corrective action when commitments are at risk.
• Maintain transparent intake and prioritization decisions; resolve conflicts within delegated authority and escalate material tradeoffs or funding changes to the CIO and VP of AI and Digital Services Strategy Leader.

• Maintain a consolidated view of demand, capacity, skills, assignments, and schedules across AI, automation, data, and infrastructure, covering both project delivery and ongoing operations.
• Build rolling workforce and capacity plans with team leaders, identifying staffing gaps, critical skills, succession needs, training priorities, and external partner requirements.
• Coordinate resource commitments and allocation decisions with functional leaders; resolve over commitment, scarce-skill bottlenecks, and competing assignments across teams.
• Recommend hiring, contracting, sourcing, and funding plans to the CIO, informed by strategic demand, delivery forecasts, support obligations, and financial constraints.

• Oversee integrated schedules and dependencies, including data readiness, infrastructure provisioning, security reviews, AI delivery, deployment, and operational transition.
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