Information Technology Manager

Flex; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex is seeking an IT leader to manage and optimize the organization’s information systems, ensuring reliability and cost-effective operation at San Jose, CA. The role emphasizes directing a team, budgeting, and collaborating with stakeholders to align IT with business needs.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in IT, a degree in Information Technology, and strong leadership, technical, and customer-relationship capabilities to drive critical infrastructure initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant IT experience.
• Demonstrates advanced/functional and technical experience or process management skills.
• Strong customer (internal/external) relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, and manage IT support and maintenance activities to ensure information systems function reliably.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software products to enhance information systems.
• Liaise with managers to understand information needs and determine installations and configurations.
• Lead and develop IT staff to ensure systems are supported within budget.
• Approve system development cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.
• Direct daily department activities to maximize system utilization and support business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Technical/Process management

Customer relationship skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

What a typical day looks like

• Plan, prioritize, and manage IT support and maintenance activities to ensure that organization’s information systems function reliably and that IT resources are used effectively.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software products that will enhance the capabilities of the organization’s information systems.
• Liaise with functional or operational area managers to understand their current and future information needs and determine how information systems should be installed, configured, and maintained to best meet these needs.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of information systems professionals and support staff to ensure that the organization’s information systems are supported effectively and within budget.
• Approve system development cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.
• Direct daily department activities in order to maximize system utilization and support business needs as it pertains to a site’s IT infrastructure. Examples include IMAC, VMAC, and responding to Help Desk tickets.
• This IT infrastructure includes (but is not limited to) LAN, WAN, telephony, server administration, desktop support, printers and barcode scanners.
• Manages the relationship with the service providers of any outsourced infrastructure component. This includes managing the service level agreement, change management, maintaining a thorough understanding of cost issues including participating in negotiation of new cost schedules.
• Manage business continuity and recovery of company’s information systems, including needs analysis, design, plan development, implementation and documentation.
• Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Provide technical &/or project leadership for mid to large-scale projects.
• Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems requiring creative solutions.
• Frequently deal with inter-organizational and external contacts

What we’re looking to add to our team

• Typically requires 8+ years relevant experience in IT
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology preferred; or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrates advanced/functional and technical experience or process management skills as well as customer (internal/external) relationship skills.

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