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CLIENT PARTNER PROFILE & VALUE PROPOSITION: Leapros has been engaged by a mid-sized transportation business in Long Beach to fill a CIO role. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative technology leader to build their own team and implement several advanced technologies to help the company advance.
POSITION TITLE: Chief Information Officer (CIO)
POSITION SUMMARY: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) reports directly to the CEO and plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing the company’s long-term technology and data strategies. This position demands a visionary leader with strong strategic thinking skills and a deep understanding of technology’s role in driving business growth.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
- Oversee the development of a portfolio of programs and projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Collaborate with senior leaders to address portfolio structure, costs, risks, interdependencies, and strategic benefits, recommending corrective actions when necessary.
- Development of AI Models; Training/Testing/Integrating AI Models
- Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, aligning technical expertise with customer and business needs to deliver cost-effective, agile digital solutions. Create and refine digital experiences that cater to current users while attracting new ones, focusing on seamless customer journeys, trust, and relevance.
- Ensure the customer-facing applications and infrastructure meet performance, redundancy, resiliency, scalability, and disaster recovery best practices and standards.
- Provide strategic direction and oversight of the design, development, operation, and support of IT systems and programs that fulfill the needs of the business, including: enterprise architecture management, application management, security and risk management, infrastructure and operations support management.
- Deliver end-to-end accountabilities for all aspects of technology to the business, including escalation points for operational and delivery issues.
- Approve, prioritize, and control the application project portfolio as it relates to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems.
- Oversee the secure operation, administration, and maintenance of the company’s computing and networking infrastructure. This includes developing and implementing Risk Management, Identity/Access Management, Information Security, Privacy, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Plans.
- Manage operating and capital technology budgets, ensuring alignment with approved expenditures for new investments, consulting services, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Manage third-party vendors to maximize partnerships, ensuring clear expectations, accountability for standards, timelines, and budgets, while monitoring contractual obligations. Build strong business relationships critical to project success.
- Supervise 1-5 IT department employees, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and laws. Responsibilities include hiring, training, assigning work, evaluating performance, addressing issues, and maintaining team morale and productivity. Oversee resource allocation, team motivation, training, and the department’s overall structure and effectiveness.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ten or more years of experience leading enterprise implementations, application support, operations, web-based systems, networking and storage methodologies, data analytics, voice and data communications technologies, systems administration, technical control methodologies, portfolio, and resource management within the Logistics, Intermodal, Transportation, or Distribution industries.
- An extensive background/demonstrated track record in managing and overseeing complex and diverse IT operations, preferably in an international environment.
- Substantial demonstrated experience in planning and executing digital strategies and in formulating, allocating, and evaluating major policy, programs, and technology projects.
- Proven leadership understanding and prioritizing the feedback and ideas from groups of key stakeholders to successfully achieve goals and objectives.
- Capability to carry and execute vision and strategy across the organization to influence key stakeholders (including senior leaders) on the implementation of products and services.
- Extensive prior experience acting in a role equivalent to that of CIO in the private and/or public sector with an impressive track record of being able to work effectively with senior management to develop and implement enterprise architectures and digital strategies that tie information technology to the objectives and goals of an organization.
- Knowledge of advanced data analytics capability for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics that drive value for the organization and its customers.
- Experience in the application of enterprise information security solutions to improve both business processes and service delivery.
- Excellent planning, analysis, organization, negotiation, and written and oral communication skills, with the ability to understand the implications of evolving business requirements for IT, explaining complex IT and digital concepts clearly and effectively and formulating and communicating the business value of IT investments, expenditures, and related resources.
PAY TRANSPARENCY: A reasonable estimate of the available {annual or hourly} pay scale for this position is: $275,000-295,000 per year + bonus. The actual compensation offered may vary depending on qualifications and other factors essential to the performance of duties and is determined by the hiring authority.
At Leapros, we are committed to our core values and guiding ethical principles, to conducting business in a non-discriminatory manner, and to operating in strict compliance with applicable federal and state laws pertaining to Equal Employment Opportunity. This commitment enhances our ability to conduct business with the highest level of integrity, solidifying our position as the most trusted workforce solutions partner. To learn more about Leapros or to speak with one of our recruitment partners, call 866-920-LEAP or visit our website at www.leapros.com.
