Role & responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment & Planning

• Provide input into long-term technology decisions based on frontline observations and emerging trends.

• Translate delivery insights into strategic recommendations for IT leadership.

• Influence prioritization to focus on high-value technically achievable outcomes.

• Support alignment between business priorities and technical roadmaps across Agile Fusion Team and Global IT.

• Manage a budget including indirect fixed costs and capital expenditures.

• Oversee vendor relationships renewals and contracts.

• Collaborate with external technology and vendor partners to leverage best-in-class applications processes and innovations.

• Translate Global IT strategies and objectives into executable tactical plans.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Provide direct leadership to the team.

• Drive engagement and commitment across their technical resources.

• Foster a culture of curiosity change agility adaptability ownership responsiveness and continuous improvement.

• Ensure the team operates with a shared understanding of goals success metrics and IT expectations.

• Actively develop team members through quarterly and annual performance assessments coaching and stretch assignments.

• Conduct quarterly 9-box reviews for external contractor talent to ensure alignment and performance.

• Play an active role in hiring onboarding and building a strong talent pipeline for Global IT.

• Ensure partners and teams are well-utilized and continuously developing their skillsets.

• Promote equity through diverse inclusive teams that value different ideas and perspectives.

• Represent and reinforce Schreiber Foods values and culture across all team interactions.

Innovation & Business Partnership

• Use past technical experience to review and guide system designs and architecture decisions.

• Monitor and manage resourcing gaps capacity planning and workload balancing.

• Promote ongoing technical skill development and training across the team.

• Work with business subject matter experts to understand and modernize business processes through automation and transformation.

• Introduce and benchmark innovative technologies methodologies and industry trends to improve systems and delivery.

• Create space for partners to explore new ways of executing tasks and drive a continuous improvement mindset.

• Stretch partners beyond their comfort zones to identify emerging leaders and foster growth.

• Engage with external peer networks to apply industry-leading practices and bring outside-in thinking to Global IT.

• Ensure teams meet or exceed customer expectations through efficient timely execution and strong business acumen.

Delivery Execution & Technical Oversight:

• Lead Agile delivery for Europe Fusion Agile Team supporting supply chain and manufacturing functions.

• Ensure Technical resources evaluate and challenge solution designs to align with enterprise architecture and technical standards.

• Bring a technical perspective into product roadmap discussions to inform feasibility scalability and dependencies.

• Manages Level 3 support larger production problems and environment stability.

• Select negotiate and oversee vendor technical deliverables to ensure quality timelines and compliance.

• Coordinate cross-team efforts to remove delivery bottlenecks and capability mismatches.

• Monitor delivery progress manage technical dependencies and ensure compliance with IT governance.

• Leverage Agile Scrum development methodologies to drive results and continuous improvement.

• Enable self-service analytics and data democratization across the organization.

• Lead global execution rollout and continuous improvement of ERP systems (e.g. Oracle SAP etc.).

Key Ingredients:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology Computer Engineering Data Science or a related field. A masters degree is a plus.

• 5-10 years of progressive IT leadership experience including direct accountability for global delivery teams technical execution and cross-functional collaboration. 1-3 year direct supervisory responsibilities is preferred.

• 5 years in Agile environments with proven success leading Scrum or Agile Fusion teams across multiple geographies.

• Strong background in software development systems engineering or data engineering.

• Experience managing Level 3 support and production environments including on-call rotations and incident escalation.

• Demonstrated success in vendor management including contract negotiation performance oversight and integration of external resources.

• Track record of driving process improvement and automation especially in complex enterprise environments.

• Experience leading diverse distributed teams with a focus on talent development inclusion and global workforce optimization.

• Demonstrates business acumen in manufacturing supply chain and commercial with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Experience managing budgets and capital expenditures including vendor contracts and renewals.

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) modern development tools (e.g. Jira GitHub) ERP systems and data technologies (e.g. Databricks Power BI).

• Strong external orientation with experience engaging peer networks benchmarking industry trends and applying best practices.

• Global Delivery & Cultural Fluency: ability to lead and collaborate across diverse distributed teams in multiple countries; strong cultural awareness and sensitivity to foster inclusion and equity across global teams; experience managing talent in multiple geographies to optimize cost capability and delivery.

• Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen: ability to translate business strategy into actionable technical plans; good understanding of manufacturing and supply chain domains; skilled in identifying high-value opportunities and influencing prioritization decisions.

• Change Leadership & Agility: comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change in complex environments; promotes a mindset of curiosity adaptability and continuous improvement; capable of transforming business processes through technology and innovation; strong ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders.

• Partner-Centric Leadership: b

  uilds strong relationships across Agile Fusion Teams Platform Teams Architecture Help Desk and external vendors; engages external networks and peer communities to bring in fresh thinking and best practices; develops talent through coaching stretch assignments and performance feedback.

• Innovation & External Orientation: actively benchmarks industry trends and emerging technologies; brings outside-in thinking to challenge norms and improve delivery models; collaborates with technology providers to leverage best-in-class solutions.

Were looking for great people who bring to life a culture of caring partnership and customer commitment. Are you one of them Join us.