The Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Information Technology helps lead Ballad Health in the execution of the enterprise-wide IT strategy and ensures its alignment with the enterprise business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success. The AVP participates and contributes to overall enterprise business strategy development, bringing a current knowledge and future vision of leveraging information and technology in business model design, business process re-engineering, product and service development, and support for competitive advantage.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Helps set the mission and vision of the IT organization to foster business-oriented culture and mindset. Helps lead the development of the IT strategy and roadmap; ensures its integration with the enterprise's strategic planning process, and the resulting business strategy and plans. Acts as a trusted advisor, builds and maintains relationships with other executives and business unit leaders to develop a clear understanding of business needs, and ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and can respond with agility to changing business priorities.
Uses influencing and negotiation skills to create synergies across the enterprise to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of business goals. Collaborates with executive leadership and business partners to define and execute the digital business strategy. Participates and contributes to the assessment of external digital opportunities and threats, and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.
Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms. Provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced within the enterprise. Ensure IT capabilities respond to the needs of the enterprise's digital business strategy.
Provides strategic direction as innovation efforts are presented. Provides strategic direction and oversight for 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, and infrastructure and operations support management. Leads the development and implementation of realistic annual operating and capital budgets for IT to ensure they are consistent with overall strategic objectives of the enterprise and within scope.
Enhances the capabilities of IT by leveraging internal and external resources. Directs the development of IT sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management. Works with HR and the IT leadership team to develop an IT "team member strategy" that aligns with the business model.
Both teams work together to continually look for leading-edge and innovative solutions to the recruitment, development, and retention of the IT workforce. Develops and maintains an IT workforce with the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills, and competencies that balance the needs between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
Leads and executes a digital workplace strategy that ensures employees have the tools and environment to be more engaged, productive, and effective. Serves on enterprise planning and policymaking committees, drives the development of enterprise technology standards and governance processes, and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value to the enterprise. Provides leadership, coaching, and direction to the IT leadership team and staff.
Supports the CIO in the delivery of IT-related strategies and initiatives and serves as a proxy for the CIO as necessary.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent work experience. EXPERIENCE Fifteen or more years of experience in IT and business/industry. Five to seven years of leadership responsibilities.
Preferably five or more years of experience in related, industry-leading, large, cross-functional teams and/or enterprise-wide programs, influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts. Demonstrated experience in IT strategic planning, organization design and development. Preferably proven experience or demonstrated capability in leading IT transformational initiatives in complex and dynamic environments by taking advantage of digital opportunities to innovate business models and enable the digitalization of the business.
Knowledge/Skills: Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to develop and communicate an IT vision that inspires and motivates IT staff and aligns to the business strategy. Ability to instill confidence in the business and demonstrate the business value of IT. Effective influencing and negotiation skills in an environment where resources may not be in direct control of this role.
Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills. Strong business acumen, including industry domain specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units. Expertise in budget planning and financial management.
Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them to drive digital business and how they may be applied to the enterprise to drive digital business. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic people plan that ensures that the right people are in the right roles at the right time and that employees are highly engaged and satisfied. Ability to identify and leverage resources internally and externally to the enterprise to enhance capabilities that drive digital business.
Ability to drive organizational change and build capabilities that effectively balance the needs between continuously exploiting capabilities to optimize operational efficiency and delivering innovative and agile IT solutions to enable the business to explore digital business opportunities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to the IT workforce.
Work
Day On Call: No Weekends: No
No Travel Shift Details: 8a-5p City/State: Kingsport, TN Location: Ballad Health Corporate