AVP, Technology Solutions (Supply Chain)

The AVP, Technology Solutions will ensure delivery on the Client functional and technical roadmap and requirements across products and product families within scope and resolve technical impediments as needed. Ensure adherence to technical standards that will promote Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC). Collaborate with Application and platform technology and product leadership to define solutions meeting client integration objectives aligned with platform architecture and implementations. They must have an extensive technical background, as well as excellent communication, cooperation, and mentoring skills, which enable him/her to serve as “servant leader” to technology resources as well as have effective requirements negotiation skills with the assigned client.

This is an onsite position based at our Mt. Juliet, TN facility.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Advanced understanding of broader capability objectives and able to translate to the go forward technical strategy

• Defines and executes against a technical roadmap across multiple platforms in scope of client solution delivery

  • Establishes a collaboration framework with Operational peers, Product Owners and SMEs and Platform leads and Architects and ensuring delivery of solutions for the client are implemented and delivered on time.

  • Resolves disagreements regarding technical requirements for interdependencies across teams

• Facilitates communication with key product stakeholders throughout the work cycle

• Monitors and resolves technical impediments across teams

• Manages timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems with the different platforms in all environments

• Helps manage risks and dependencies across teams

• Escalates impediments to appropriate stakeholders as needed

• End-responsibility for service quality and security across solutions within client scope

• Risk-mitigation planning to proactively address technical and deliverable risk

• With relevant HR partners, coordinate hiring of new team members

• Manage staffing strategy to ensure client solution teams have team members they need, that team members are 100% dedicated.

• Select and manage technical vendors, where appropriate

• Conducts performance reviews for Engineering Managers and Individual contributors, combining inputs from a variety of sources and delivering to team members

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or any other relevant STEM degree.

• 10+ years of Information technology experience.  

• 5+ years’ experience in a technical client-facing environment.               

• 5+ years’ experience driving forward multi-team initiatives.

• 3+ in a Director or VP level role.  

• 2+ years’ in Supply Chain / Logistic domain is required.

• Experience with Oracle EBS within a Supply Chain business is highly desired.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• MS/MBA preferred

• Strong experience of Agile and DevSecOps delivery practices

• Ability to coordinate and influence a wide variety of stakeholders across the enterprise in order to clear roadblocks

• Ability to provide informed perspective to Product Directors during prioritization and funding allocation decisions in the context of a product-based funding model

• Extensive technical knowledge to troubleshoot issues across multiple domains by identifying root causes and creating solutions

• Must possess strong communication and leadership skills, particularly good in communicating between business and technology teams

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Pay Range:

$141,400.00 - $236,100.00

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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