IT Strategy Manager

AccruePartners; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AccruePartners seeks a senior technology strategy leader to shape how a large enterprise defines its next chapter. You will translate business priorities into a strategic, executable technology roadmap and drive investment decisions that fund measurable value across AI, automation, and optimization initiatives.

You will connect Technology, Finance, and Operations leadership to ensure strategy becomes action, while operating with executive visibility in a transformative growth environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years across technology strategy, management consulting, IT portfolio strategy, or another highly strategic technology environment.
• Experience navigating the scale and complexity of a large organization and influencing initiatives that cut across functions.
• Strong business and financial acumen. You understand that great technology strategy is ultimately business strategy.
• Executive presence with the ability to take complexity, find the story, and influence senior-level decisions.
• Experience building business cases, evaluating investments, and connecting technology spend to measurable business outcomes.
• A strategic builder who can create structure where it does not exist, challenge existing thinking, and still roll up their sleeves to execute.
• Someone who wants to do more than manage a technology portfolio. You want to help determine where an enterprise is going next and how technology will help get it there.

Responsibilities

• Help define where enterprise technology is going next and translate business priorities into a clear, actionable roadmap.
• Drive the conversations around what gets prioritized, what gets funded, and where technology can create the greatest return.
• Connect strategy, financial investment, execution, and measurable outcomes across a complex technology portfolio.
• Turn complex financial, operational, and technology information into a compelling story that enables executive decision-making.
• Evaluate new opportunities across AI, automation, technology optimization, and strategic partnerships.
• Create greater rigor around how technology investments are evaluated, governed, and measured from idea through realized value.
• Serve as a connector across Technology, Finance, Operations, and other business leaders to ensure strategy actually translates into execution.

Skills

Executive presence

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Financial acumen

Job description

• Join a large, privately held organization with a national footprint, significant scale, and a strong track record of growth.
• Be part of a business that has established a leading position in its market and is now investing in the technology, infrastructure, and operating model needed for its next chapter.
• The organization is navigating meaningful growth and transformation, creating an opportunity to help shape how a complex enterprise operates at scale.
• You’ll have the resources and complexity of a major enterprise, while working in an environment where strong leaders can still challenge the status quo and leave their fingerprints on the business.
• Technology is becoming increasingly important to how the organization grows, operates, and creates value, making this a pivotal time to join.

THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

• Join a large, privately held organization with a national footprint, significant scale, and a strong track record of growth.
• Be part of a business that has established a leading position in its market and is now investing in the technology, infrastructure, and operating model needed for its next chapter.
• The organization is navigating meaningful growth and transformation, creating an opportunity to help shape how a complex enterprise operates at scale.
• You’ll have the resources and complexity of a major enterprise, while working in an environment where strong leaders can still challenge the status quo and leave their fingerprints on the business.
• Technology is becoming increasingly important to how the organization grows, operates, and creates value, making this a pivotal time to join.

What They Offer You

• A true seat at the table, influencing some of the organization’s most important technology priorities and investment decisions.
• Significant executive visibility, with your work helping shape conversations and decisions at the highest levels of the organization.
• The opportunity to influence how substantial technology investments are prioritized, funded, measured, and ultimately translated into business value.
• A chance to build and shape. This is not simply stepping into a mature playbook and keeping it running.
• Exposure to enterprise transformation, AI, automation, emerging technology, and the evolving ways technology can create competitive advantage.
• A role that can broaden your career beyond traditional IT strategy by putting you at the intersection of technology, finance, operations, and enterprise strategy.

What You Will Be Doing

• Help define where enterprise technology is going next and translate business priorities into a clear, actionable roadmap.
• Drive the conversations around what gets prioritized, what gets funded, and where technology can create the greatest return.
• Connect strategy, financial investment, execution, and measurable outcomes across a complex technology portfolio.
• Turn complex financial, operational, and technology information into a compelling story that enables executive decision-making.
• Evaluate new opportunities across AI, automation, technology optimization, and strategic partnerships.
• Create greater rigor around how technology investments are evaluated, governed, and measured from idea through realized value.
• Serve as a connector across Technology, Finance, Operations, and other business leaders to ensure strategy actually translates into execution.

THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS

• 7+ years across technology strategy, management consulting, IT portfolio strategy, or another highly strategic technology environment.
• Experience navigating the scale and complexity of a large organization and influencing initiatives that cut across functions.
• Strong business and financial acumen. You understand that great technology strategy is ultimately business strategy.
• Executive presence with the ability to take complexity, find the story, and influence senior-level decisions.
• Experience building business cases, evaluating investments, and connecting technology spend to measurable business outcomes.
• A strategic builder who can create structure where it does not exist, challenge existing thinking, and still roll up their sleeves to execute.
• Someone who wants to do more than manage a technology portfolio. You want to help determine where an enterprise is going next and how technology will help get it there.