Job Purpose and Impact

The Vice President, Digital Technology & Data - Food North America role establishes and directs the development of the digital technology roadmap that aligns with business objectives, with a mid- to long-term strategic impact on business results. This job leads and guides a major global department responsible for implementing digital transformation initiatives, overseeing technology strategy and leading digital operations within the organization. This job provides strategic direction, mentors technology teams, champions a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, and evaluates new technologies and industry trends to settle their potential impact.

Key Accountabilities

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Provides strategic leadership in developing and implementing a technology roadmap that supports the overall enterprise or function strategy and aligns with client and organizational objectives.
• PARTNER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Cultivates balanced strategic relationships with enterprise, function and executive leadership and provides expertise to partners in defining scenarios and coordinating organizational communication efforts.
• VALUE CREATION & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT: Leads new value creation opportunities and preserves value by guiding the execution of compliance policies, managing external partner relationships, reviewing service level requirements and optimizing operating costs.
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION & OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: Evaluates and reviews performance against service level agreements, ensuring teams collaborate to achieve operational effectiveness.
• PROJECT EXECUTION & BENEFIT REALIZATION: Oversees the execution of product, process, and data initiatives, identifies constraints, evaluates the realization of benefits upon project implementation, and ensures teams deliver against expectations throughout approved projects.
• INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY ENABLEMENT: Champions and influences the introduction of new solutions, technologies and applications to enable business processes, including corporate and transformation initiatives.
• VENDOR RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Handles relationships with external vendors, negotiates contracts, and ensures service level agreements are met.
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

MINIMUM & TYPICAL YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum requirement of 10 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 15 years or more of relevant experience.
• Minimum requirement of 10 years of experience working with SAP.
• Minimum requirement of 10 years of experience with manufacturing and/or supply chain.
• Minimum requirement of 10 years of experience with data, analytics and insights.

PREFERRED & TYPICAL YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

• 5 years of experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP).
• 5 years of experience working in the food and agriculture industry.