Head of IT Strategy & Delivery Excellence

AVI Foodsystems is looking for an energetic and optimistic team member to fill the role of Head of IT Strategy & Delivery Excellence.

Founded in 1960 AVI Foodsystems has evolved into one of the most respected and trusted food service companies in the nation. Providing comprehensive food services with a focus on the highest quality and freshest ingredients impeccable service and total value is the reputation we have earned and live up to everyday.

Reports to: Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Direct Reports: 1 (Initial) scaling to 6 (Strategic Growth)

The Mission

As the Head of IT Strategy & Delivery Excellence you serve as the COO of IT and the CIOs primary strategic partner. Your mission is to transition the organization from a traditional process-heavy PMO to a high-velocity Value Management Office (VMO). This is a Player-Coach role: you will personally lead high-stakes strategic initiatives while building a lean world-class team that treats IT as a value-driver not a cost center.

Modernized Value Management (The VMO)

• Outcome-Led Governance: Replace heavy PMO checklists with automated governance. Focus on Value Velocitythe speed at which an idea becomes a business result.

• Investment & FinOps: Act as the CFO of IT managing the CapEx/OpEx budget and implementing FinOps to optimize cloud spend and TCO transparency.

• Strategic Intake: Implement a Value-First prioritization framework to ensure the enterprise focuses on the best initiatives.

• M&A & Transformation: Personally lead the IT integration playbook for new acquisitions ensuring rapid time-to-value for the ownership group.

II. Agile Delivery & The Light PMO

• Adaptive Delivery: Design a Lean-Agile framework where Project Managers act asEnablers not Taskmasters.

• Organizational Change Management (OCM): Lead the human side of digital transformation ensuring user adoption is measured as a key project success metric.

• Self-Service Enablement: Build Project Kits that allow business units to run smaller initiatives without heavy IT oversight keeping the central team lean.

III. Business Relationship & Workforce Strategy

• Strategic BRM: Act as the primary partner to the CFO COO and Sales VPs to co-author their long term digital roadmaps.

• IT Digital Branding: Own the Story of IT. Use intentional internal communications to market ITs successes and value to the board and ownership.

• Workforce Evolution: Design the talent roadmap to upskill the organization in AI automation and data-driven decision-making.

The 1-to-Many Team Evolution

This role follows a phased growth model allowing the leader to establish credibility as a Player-Coach before scaling the organization.

Phase 1: Foundation (The Player-Coach)

• The Focus: Personal leadership of the enterprises top 23 strategic initiatives.

• The Goal: Stand up the Business of IT framework (Intake ROI Tracking and FinOps) and establish a Light PMO culture.

Phase 2: Scale (The Strategic Core)

• The Hire: Add a Value Analyst (IT Finance/ROI) and a Delivery Orchestrator(Agile/OCM).

• The Goal: Offload tactical execution to focus on long-term IT Strategy and M&A integration playbooks.

Phase 3: Maturity (The Strategic Partner)

• The Hire: Expand to include Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and Technical Writers/Change Specialists.

• The Goal: Full integration of IT into every business unit shifting the team from executors to strategic consultants.

The Ideal Profile

• Experience: 3 years in IT leadership or Management Consulting. You have seen Big Tech scale but prefer the agility of a privately owned environment.

• The Player-Coach DNA: You are just as comfortable building a 3-year financial model in Excel as you are presenting a transformation roadmap to the Board.

• Modern SDLC Knowledge: You advocate for DevOps and Product-centric delivery over Waterfall status reporting.

• Influence: Ability to push back on the C-Suite with data-driven insights while maintaining high-trust relationships.

Benefits:

• A family culture and atmosphere
• Competitive compensation
• Health dental vision and life insurance for full-time team members
• 401(k) with generous company match
• Paid vacations and holidays
• Immense training and growth opportunities

We conduct pre-employment drug testing. EOE

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