Gerdau North America · 20 hours ago
Digital IT Leader
Tampa, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expGerdau North America is seeking a Digital IT Leader to develop and implement the vision and strategy for digital business products. The role involves enhancing business performance through digital transformation, managing teams, and fostering relationships with business leaders to support the transformation agenda.
Consumer Goods
Responsibilities
Develop vision, strategy, and roadmap for digital business products
Apply your Digital IT expertise to enhance the performance of the business and to enable its digital transformation strategy
Act as a technologist and a catalyst of digital transformation
Deliver reliable, high-performance Digital Products, as well as identify cost and productivity improvements and increase the value of the Digital IT investment portfolio, driving a long-term view on technology investments
Develop and maintain strong relationships with business leaders to gain their active support for the transformation agenda, as well as develop solution concepts and business cases for new investments
Oversee the launch of Digital Product and aid to maximize the positive impact on the organization
Lead and manage the team and vendors to develop and improve technology-enabled business capabilities
Lead and manage the team while providing active support for their personal development, as well as managing the budget, product portfolio, and KPIs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
10 years of programming, system analysis and implementation experience
5 years of experience managing or leading teams
Relevant experience with business processes, especially commercial, Supply chain and Industrial
Knowledge of IT processes, and IT functions, such as development, infrastructure, security, and governance, as well as technology, including Cloud, Big Data, Architecture, APIs, AI and GenAI
Expertise in Agile, Project Management, Product Development and Innovation processes
Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
Communication and Persuasion – Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding
Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business
Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
Strategic Thinking and Vision – Possess a clear sense of the direction of the organization and understand what will create a competitive advantage for the business in the future. Distinguish tactical issues from strategic ones and take action while effectively translating strategic imperatives at the macro level into initiatives and priorities
Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly
Global Perspective – Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company's strategy and priorities into consideration
Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives
Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources
Supplier Management – Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support
Preferred
Experience in the manufacturing industry is a plus
Company
Gerdau North America
In North America, Gerdau manufactures merchant bar, structural steel, piling, special bar quality and rebar products for the agricultural, automotive, civil construction, distribution, energy, industrial, and mining markets.
5001-10000 employees
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