Chief information officer job description

Kendall Auto Group is seeking a highly skilled Chief Information Officer (CIO) to provide IT leadership and vision. With 2,200 employees in 43 dealerships across 5 states, the CIO will work collaboratively with other senior managers to optimize our IT infrastructure for efficiency, security, and effectiveness. The CIO will report directly to the CFO of Kendall.
Responsibilities will include:

Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs. Develop and manage annual and quarterly budgets. Oversee data security, management, and governance. Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships. Manage IT resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics. Define Kendall's overall technology strategy to support business objectives. Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency and scalability of product solutions. Facilitate the development and implementation of disaster recovery and IT security failure plans. Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps. Assist in creating strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation and deployment of all technical solutions.


Qualifications/Skills required:


Strong leader with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, process development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams. Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude. Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals. Strong communication with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners. Strategic thinking, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts. Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.


Education & Experience Requirements


Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field. Previous experience as a CIO, director, or similar leadership role. Prior experience as a senior technology leader in the automotive retailing business is a plus. Experience leading complex, major changes, and initiatives Experience with integrating teams across multiple business units and managing a geographically dispersed workforce. Experience designing and managing an effective IT governance framework across the spectrum of IT service delivery.

Join Kendall Auto Group and START SOMETHING GREAT! We are a family-owned and operated company with auto dealerships in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington and Alaska. Kendall has been selling and servicing vehicles since 1937.

Our mission at Kendall is simple: To deliver an unrivaled customer experience. Through our highly motivated, knowledgeable, and caring team of professionals, we pledge to listen to and respect your needs. Doing the right thing means more than selling and servicing vehicles. Our progressive attitude means being exceptional stewards of the communities we operate in. It means going above and beyond every day for the people who mean so much to us - our employees and customers.

Our employees are members of the Kendall family, who share our same goals and passions. Ideal candidates are confident, driven people who are excited to grow and succeed with one of the most successful automotive dealerships in the Pacific Northwest. We offer eligible employees medical, dental, vision and life insurance, Paid Time Off, a 401(k) plan with company contributions, an entire family purchase plan and much more! If you are looking for a rewarding career, we would like to meet you and start something great!"

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As a Manager in our Technology Advisory group, you will be a utility player who develops IT strategies and leads technology enabled transformation engagements. Your job will be to lead small teams or workstreams to develop technology strategies for senior client executives. This includes developing financial models to justify technology investments based upon improvements in business outcome metrics. Working with senior executives to secure commitments to improvement in business outcome metrics based on the delivery of new technology capabilities. Creating solution architects that articulate the current state, interim state, and target state architecture. Developing roadmaps that take into account resource constraints, dependencies, and value realization targets. Program and project managing technology enabled transformation engagements.
Who will love this job
Are you a top performer with a strong understanding of how to generate business value from technology? Are you interested in working closely with middle-market C-suite executives? Do you have an insatiable curiosity with an aptitude and willingness to pick up new skills and new industries quickly? Are you able to empathize with clients, customers, partners, and coworkers and articulate what is in it for them? Are you a structured thinker with exceptional written and verbal communications skills? Do you like helping clients develop and implement technology strategies that transform their business? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirt and are looking for the opportunity to create and grow something great? If that sounds like you, then Riveron's Technology Advisory group might be the right fit for you.
What You'll Do:IT Strategy - Work with senior client executives to identify how to apply technology solutions to maximize business impact. Create IT strategies supported by completing business cases. Develop detailed technology roadmaps that consider dependencies, constraints, costs as well as benefits realization. IT Cost Optimization - Work with technology leaders to identify, model, and recommend cost optimization strategies including managed services transformation, cloud transformation, infrastructure transformation, data center consolidation, open-source migration, software asset management, application portfolio rationalization, systems retirement, network optimization, device audit, asset buyout, and agile transformation.Technology Modernization Strategy - Help clients identify practical approaches to simplifying and modernizing their technology footprint. Work with clients to develop business cases and roadmaps based on detailed analysis of their technology environment through application portfolio optimization, cloud strategy, ERP consolidation, mainframe modernization, open-source migration, and other technology modernization strategies. Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures - Work with organizations to achieve their inorganic growth or strategic focus objectives by conducting IT due diligence, Day 1 planning, and post-merger integration or separation. IT Operating Model Design - Work with client technology executives to design their IT operating model, including manage services transformation, cloud operating model design, agile transformation, multi-model IT service delivery model design. Digital Disruption - Envision ways emerging technologies may disrupt clients' industries and work with them to visualize and implement solutions that allow them to seize these opportunities.
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering) 7-15 years of progressive relevant experience in a technology field Previous consulting experience preferred Experience with one or more of the following areas (cloud strategy, architecting cloud solutions, IT strategy, IT cost optimization, IT due diligence, post-merger integration or separation, technology modernization, financial modeling, enterprise architecture, design thinking, agile transformation, digital transformation, or IT operating model design) Exceptional written and verbal communication skills Hands on implementation experience as well as IT strategy experience
About Riveron:

At Riveron, you'll collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver meaningful solutions to a variety of clients, work alongside experienced leaders who are invested in your growth, and be part of an inclusive and vibrant community of individuals who truly love what they do and who they do it with. Our entrepreneurial culture is rooted in a belief that every perspective is uniquely valuable, and that spirit has enabled our significant growth. Along with that growth comes opportunity - for more impactful work, enhanced flexibility, and progressive benefits that support healthy, prosperous lives in and out of work.

Riveron is a people-first business advisory firm that operates at the center of the latest business trends. We partner with our clients - ranging from large global multinational organizations to high growth private entities - to solve the dynamic and complex issues faced by modern finance organizations.

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Riveron Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes that we are stronger together through our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Advertising/Posting Title LCOM Chief Information Officer Diversity Statement The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are required to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. Posting Summary

Provides leadership, counsel, expertise, strategy and vision for technology in support of the missions of the Larner College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Prioritizes initiatives, resources and successful management of the technology services and delivery. Provides leadership through collaboration with the Dean's leadership team and LCOM Advisory Council and represents the LCOM in information technology-related matters with academic and research affiliates, granting agencies, data providers, venders and collaborators across campus, with all affiliate sites and national organizations. Leads and directs the technology services group and is responsible for planning and implementation, management, security, and oversight of every element of the college's technology.

Responsible for implementing the strategic, innovative, efficient and secure use of technology for LCOM. Designs, manages and oversees the enterprise administrative, education and research platforms, storage and backup infrastructure, application development, data management, information security, instructional technologies, technical training, computer installation and maintenance, user support services, the college's classroom and meeting room technology and policy development regarding information services for students, faculty, and staff.

Oversees the review and analysis, coordination, and approval of technology-related purchases. Ensures upgrades and new applications and technologies are compatible with existing systems and are appropriately integrated into the enterprise architecture for the college as well as, where appropriate, the health network and university. Provides mentorship, leadership and supervision of staff, budget oversight ($4 million), and development, administrative and academic support, and strategic planning and implementation for the Technology Services unit. Advises on and approves all other significant technology purchases and decisions in LCOM and CNHS.
Minimum Qualifications (or equivalent combination of education and experience)

Bachelor's Degree and ten years experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional IT teams or projects required.

Budget administration experience

Effective oral and written communication, with the ability to explain technology solutions in business terms; and proven leadership and conflict resolution skills

Effective listening skills with proven ability to elicit and incorporate input from all LCOM users: students, faculty and staff

Experience implementing a strategic plan and ability to translate strategic plans into day-to-day operations management.

Experience and ability in IT planning, strategy and architecture.

Experience and competency in adopting and integrating emerging technologies as well as using life cycle management processes, for software development and change management.

Knowledge of enterprise software applications; infrastructure and network technologies and diverse platforms.

Knowledge of best practices in the delivery of technology support services.

Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels and to build consensus and develop collaborative working relationships with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Desirable Qualifications

Academic medicine experience preferred.

Other Information Special Conditions A probationary period may be required, This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule with an option to split time between campus and elsewhere, in accordance with the university telecommuting policy FLSA Exempt Payband Min (Represents full-time (12 months, 1.0 FTE) equivalent salary. Must be prorated for jobs less than 12 months or 1.0FTE (Salary/12 x # of months x FTE)) 87000.00 Payband Max (Represents full-time (12 months, 1.0 FTE) equivalent salary. Must be prorated for jobs less than 12 months or 1.0FTE (Salary/12 x # of months x FTE)) 182700.00 Staff Hiring Band Union Position No

Posting Details

Position will be posted for a minimum of one week, after which it is subject to removal without notice.

Job Open Date 10/13/2022 Job Close Date (Jobs close at 11:59 PM EST.) Open Until Filled No

Position Information

Position Title Classified Executive Posting Number S3957PO Department COM Educational Tools/55028 Position Number 018354 Employee FTE 1.0 Employee Term 12

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