Corporate & Enterprise Business Solutions IT Director

Company: Illinois Tool Works Inc
Location: Glenview
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Corporate & Enterprise Business Solutions IT Director Full-time

FLSA Status: Exempt

Company Description Since its founding more than 100 years ago, ITW has become one of the world’s leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses. We place a high premium on the development of innovative solutions–most of which are developed in tandem with our customers. And we continue to ensure that our customers receive timely, cost-effective service for the innovative products we provide.

ITW’s differentiated business model is composed of a set of unique core capabilities: our proprietary 80/20 business process, customer-back innovation, and our well-known decentralized entrepreneurial culture. These capabilities are unmistakably ITW—and key to our longevity and strong performance.

ITW’s products and solutions are at work all over the world, in deep-sea oil rigs, aerospace technology, bridges and wind turbines, healthcare, the spaces in which we live and work, the cars we drive, and the mobile devices we rely on. We are never, whether we know it or not, more than a few steps from an innovative ITW solution.

Today, ITW (NYSE: ITW) is a Fortune 200 company that employs nearly 50,000 people with operations in 55 countries with headquarters in Glenview, IL. We are conveniently located across from the Metra commuter rail, with access to an on-site gym, café and active employee resource groups.

Job Description The Business Solutions IT Director works all aspects of solutions from alignment of technology strategy to business strategy, solution shaping, solution architecture, business case development, aspects of delivery through ongoing support delivered to corporate functions as well as enterprise. This includes the requirements gathering, functional solution design, acceptance testing and SLA needs as well as the IT Project leadership of all solutioning. This portion of the role is essentially a Business Relationship Management role for the Corporate functions. The enterprise solutions portion of the role has Group IT Directors as the key stakeholders. Heavy relationship management and communications competency is required for this role. The Corporate and Enterprise Business Solutions IT Director is part of the corporate Senior IT Leadership team and will serve a member on the ITW ITLT which governs enterprise IT initiatives.

Provide direction, guidance and leadership within a multi-disciplined group of systems professionals comprised of business analysts, solutions analysts, business intelligence experts and collaboration specialists.

Establish the structure, tools and processes required to insure business requirements are met by management of the portfolio of corporate solutions to include over 200 applications.

Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to develop a data architecture roadmap that allows the leverage of data and data strategies to be leveraged across ITW.

Drive improvement of capacity to deliver high quality solutions that meet or exceed expectations.

Provide thought leadership to the enterprise around the data solutions, business intelligence solutions and collaboration solutions.

Define, establish, measure and monitor attainment of IT service level agreements (SLA) and software quality targets through collaboration with other IT functions.

Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and define associated training plans for business solutions team.

Define, develop and implement appropriate intake process including prioritization.

Oversees solution testing and support for current and future business delivery models.

Directs and manages the functional support for business systems, including content management and interactive solutions.

Ensures that all business solutions and systems meet business requirements.

Resource Management and Development:

Identify and sponsor advantageous continuous improvement efforts aimed at enhancing the capabilities and productivity of the Business Solutions team.

Evaluate and effectively deploy internal and external resources; ensure that deliverables provided by each group meet business requirements.

Personnel development responsibilities include staff development, performance management, talent management as well as forecasting skills needs (and related training or development or acquisition of those skills).

Required Interactions:

The Corporate IT organization is one organization – cross group teamwork and communication is critical for success of the entire IT team. There are multidimensional inter and intra dependencies across the organization. Required interactions are with all the IT groups:

Business Solutions

IT Operations

Cyber Security

Qualifications Position Requirements:

University degree in the field of computer science or information systems. Master’s degree preferred in either of these fields or Master of Business Administration with technology as a core component.

10 years of experience managing and delivering IT services and operational excellence, preferably at a manufacturing company.

10 years successfully leading teams of various disciplines within IT.

Minimum 2 years of experience with ERP systems including implementation and production support.

A minimum of three end to end large project solution delivery experiences to include data warehouse and analytics in last seven years.

Strong Business Acumen

Exceptional knowledge of Data Warehouse and /or Analytics in delivering solutions.

Experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through to day-to-day management.

Knowledge of business theory, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.

Well-rounded experience across various technology stacks for data warehouse and analytics

Ability to attract and retain quality IT talent

Ability to size up talent and foster individual and team professional development

Personal Attributes:

Strong leadership skills.

Ability to make sound and logical judgments.

Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Highly self-motivated and directed.

Demonstrated leadership and personnel/project management skills.

Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.

Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

Able to conduct research into issues and products as required.

Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations.

Ability to present ideas in a user-friendly language.

Keen attention to detail.

Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Additional Information ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential.

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Corporate & Enterprise Business Solutions IT Director

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