VP Information Technology

Job Title: VP of Information Technology

Location: Simpsonville, SC

Reports to: Dodge President

Employment Type: Full-time

Seniority Level: Executive

Industry: Manufacturing | Mechanical Power Transmission Components | Engineering Services

Job Function: Information Technology | Strategy | Digital Transformation

• Define and execute the technology vision, aligning it with overall business goals.
• Identify and recommend new technologies to enhance efficiency and competitiveness.
• Lead the development and execution of IT strategies.

• Manage a team of IT professionals, fostering collaboration and high performance.
• Oversee application development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
• Drive process improvement and streamlined workflows.

• Prepare annual budgets, analyze expenditures, and forecast requirements.
• Support long‑term and short‑term objectives through IT business and budget plans.

• Establish and lead risk management and compliance processes.
• Provide technical guidance on information security operations.
• Develop and implement cybersecurity strategies.

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to develop technology strategies.
• Build effective relationships with management and staff across business units.

• Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of business and/or IT experience in IT strategy, IT solution / service design or IT infrastructure and SAP or other ERP systems, business or IT management / leadership experience.
• Strong leadership, project management, sales management and change management / leadership skills, global management relationship / partnering abilities.
• Demonstrated team leadership to achieve objectives.
• Business acumen and ability to take strategic views from both business and IT perspective.
• Proven performance as a leader in a complex, global organization, where IT transformation efforts were successfully delivered, driving improvement in business outcome, reliability, security, cost, and performance.
• Senior leadership experience, including demonstrated examples of building relationships and management through influence and collaboration in complex, global environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate in oral and written forms both inside and outside the organization.

• Extended periods of sitting and/or standing at a workstation.
• Speaking in person and over the telephone or Teams online and the ability to hear, comprehend, and document detailed information from others.
• Ability to type, reach and grasp.
• Intermittent standing and walking within the office environment.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing for extended periods over the phone and in person.
• Occasional lifting or carrying of objects weighing less than 10 lbs.

• Solutions:
  Proactively collaborates with leadership by articulating needs and priorities to support the build of excellent IT services and solutions portfolio that aligns with business priorities within the IT framework and capacity.
• Gathers, shapes, and prioritizes new demand within the area of responsibility and challenges requests to ensure all investments are in line with overall Dodge priorities and capacity.
• Collaborates with the business to provide insight into technological innovation and market trends, generate ideas for new innovative solutions and services, and identify improvements to existing ones.
• IT delivery:
  Monitors and communicates IT solutions and service deliveries within the business and supports the execution of requirements within budgeted costs and time schedule.
• Tracks programs and projects to secure that overall expected business value is incrementally delivered and communicates on the value delivered IT.
• Ensures overall effective interaction between RBC Corporate IT and Dodge for application and infrastructure support.
• Oversight of all IT spend across the entirety of the Dodge organization through effect management of IT budget.
• Supports the installation, management, maintenance and optimization of internal IT and cross-functional processes related to IT service delivery or IT…