CIO - Janus

Janus International; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Janus International is seeking an experienced IT leader to drive the strategic direction of the organization’s technology initiatives. You will align IT strategy with business goals, provide governance and budget oversight, and guide enterprise security and data-driven decision making across multiple platforms.

You will mentor the IT leadership team, manage key vendor relationships, and work with the executive team to advance digital transformation and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ leadership experience in IT across diversified business platforms.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in senior roles.
• Strong communication skills; ability to synthesize technical info for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Develops and aligns IT strategy with overall business direction.
• Provides governance, budget planning and ROI analysis for IT initiatives.
• Lead enterprise-wide cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management frameworks.
• Mentor IT leadership, manage vendor relationships, and oversee architecture strategy.
• Partner with executives to drive data-driven decision making and digital transformation.

Skills

IT leadership

Strategic planning

Communication

Budget management

Job description

Oversee the strategic direction of the organization’s technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develops and aligns IT strategy, roadmap, and policy with JBI strategic operational direction.
• Provides strategic vision, guidance, and insights to the JBI Executive Team.
• Drives the digital adoption and transformation, enabling data driven decision making throughout the organization.
• Provides clear and consistent leadership across the assigned operating businesses, with an eye to the unique requirements of shared resources yet independent operations.
• Invests significant energy in understanding each business unit, its markets and how it uses technology.
• Develops cost effective solutions to enhance their competitive advantage.
• Develops and maintains highly collaborative working relationships with key executives, sponsors and functions.
• With Executive Leadership, develops appropriate investment and annual operating budgets to support required operations while maintaining OpEx & CapEx target.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Designs, develops, and implements IT organization design to meet JBI operational requirements.
• Develops and mentors the IT leadership team, providing verbal and written direction, goals, feedback, and guidance.
• Communicates clear translation of Corporate Strategy to IT initiatives and leads development of planning, implementation, and execution.
• Defines KPI & Metrics to enable the effective measurement of IT performance.
• Manages key vendor relationships, negotiates critical systems, support, and platform contracts.
• Develops, publishes, and deploys IT Best Practices throughout JBI.
• Manages daily and annual budget, spend management and out of cycle purchases.
• Leads the development and deployment of an enterprise governance capability which provides controls for investments in technology, business enablement and emerging capabilities.
• Provides a formal project management intake and approval process (business case, ROI, CBA, budget, resource requirements).
• Manages and reports on Resource Utilization and Management.
• Integrates with finance team to manage Capital Controls for project approvals and budget expenditures.
• Evaluates and recommends internal, external or hybrid solutions in support of key business functions (ERP, CRM etc.)
• Defines, deploys, and provides Security, Compliance and Governance frameworks in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley standards to identify, manage and mitigate risk to business continuity.
• Ensures the GDR, audit and compliance related functions become embedded in standard IT Operational processes.
• Stays abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the potential to impact JBI’s organization or environment.
• Ensures that key IT functions are peer reviewed by appropriate executive members (legal, finance, strategy).
• Deploys enterprise controls.
• Creates, documents, and captures key business processes, workflows and functions utilized in current ERP solution.
• Identifies industry best of breed affordable solutions to meet JBI requirements around WMS, SCM, etc.
• Recommends, Develops and supports an Architecture that creates a cost effective, manageable solution for critical business applications.
• Leads the creation and maintenance of an Integration Architecture that allow for the on/off boarding of technologies, organizations, and business lines.
• Ensures that the IT organization stays relevant by implementing Innovation Capability that evaluates and pilots emerging technologies and trends in the industry.
• Ensures that IT’s strategic Roadmap is maintained with Legacy, Current and Future technologies clearly identified, aligned with capital investment and business growth plans.
• Ensures that opportunities to leverage emerging technologies (ML, AI, Process Mining) are evaluated and made available to the business to evaluate.
• Develops and deploys a comprehensive Cyber and InfoSec strategy to provide a broad multi-fabric security solution capable of ensuring the resilience of JBI’s enterprise assets.
• Leverages best of breed products in a layers solution to reduce risk and enhance the security posture of the enterprise.
• Ensures a consistent training cadence and ongoing awareness with JBI users to reduce risks associated with security incidents.
• Continuously trains staff to appropriately respond and manage through Information Security Incidents should they occur.
• Develops and maintains close working relationships with legal department as related to Information Security, Data Privacy and Cyber threats.
• Ensures that a proper Data Classification process is in place in the event of a security event.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• 15 + years’ experience including IT leadership in a diversified business operating on multiple platforms with total annual revenues exceeding $500M, preferably in a public company.
• 10+ years of previous work-related experience.
• Strong communication skills – ability to synthesize technical information in order to clearly and concisely articulate solutions, strategies, etc. to senior leaders.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk.
• Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally on the telephone and in person.