The SVP, CIO/CDO is based at the San Antonio headquarters and manages a staff of approximately 35 employees through three direct reports covering Software Strategy & Development, Enterprise Architecture, and IT Services and Delivery.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS
While ensuring back office and infrastructure is consistently operated well and efficiently, HOLT CAT seeks a proactive executive, who is highly collaborative with a high-engagement orientation, is confident and dynamic, and both responds and elicits the business needs.
- Identify, analyze and implement innovative IT and digital solutions in order to provide internal and external customer value.
- Develop, promote, implement and monitor processes that convert data into useful business analytical tools in order to satisfy customer needs.
- Develop, promote, monitor, and integrate a strategic annual business plan for information technologies, and collaborate with SBU leaders for implementation to satisfy the needs of all stakeholder groups.
- Select, evaluate and develop IT and digital staff function in order to ensure competent, committed staff to satisfy stakeholder needs and provide Legendary Customer Service.
- Establish, communicate, integrate and monitor communications processes and practices in order to satisfy the needs of all stakeholder groups. Outside constituencies include Caterpillar and Accenture.
- Evaluate, procure, allocate and control the capital resources (e.g. financial, facilities, hardware, and software) of the IT SBU in order to optimize Return on Net Assets Employed (RONAE) and meet the balanced need of all stakeholder groups.
- Assess, plan and direct outside resources, vendors, and services to ensure implementation of the companies’ IT strategic business plan.
KEY COMPETENCY AREAS
For optimum performance, the SVP, CIO/CDO is expected to demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the following areas.
Transformation Experience: Ideally at a software-centric company, though the Company is open to industry for a candidate who fits other criteria; B2B experience is very helpful.
- An executive who has led digital enablement specifically and served as a technology advisor, beyond just implementation, is key.
- Change management experience is essential-regarding both technical as well as cultural aspects of change.
Self-Management Capabilities: This area focuses on the degree to which an individual appropriately modifies their natural behaviors and actions to most effectively fit the situation they are dealing with. It includes:
- “Fitting ourselves to the job” versus “fitting the job to ourselves.”
- Making sure that we don’t overuse our natural strengths and talents.
- Taking the self-initiative to continuously improve ourselves and ensuring that we take actions that “need” to be taken versus taking actions that we “like” to take (e.g. how we adapt, listen, speak, question, seek feedback, manage time and take initiative).
Influencing Capabilities: This area deals with the skills involved in accomplishing work results with and through people by interacting with or influencing them individually or in groups. It includes:
- Managing, motivating and developing professional and operational staff members on a day-to-day basis.
- Providing directive skills and methods — including structuring modification of behaviors.
- Providing supportive skills and methods — including listening, asking open-ended questions and ensuring reinforcement of behaviors (e.g. visioning, role clarification, showing how, establishing timelines, praising, coaching, listening, asking for input, disclosing, team building, delegating, collaboration).
Planning Skills: This area focuses on the skills used to establish, monitor and schedule short-term and long-term plans that are comprehensive, realistic and effective in achieving goals. It includes:
- Developing strategic plans and annual business plans by establishing and monitoring deadlines, milestones, tasks, budget limits, and required resources.
- Forecasting and visioning. Structuring individual and others’ efforts to attain maximum productivity.
Problem Solving Expertise: A rational approach to the processes involved in identifying and defining problems, generating and selecting solution strategies, and reducing performance gaps through implementation and problem prevention. It includes:
- Theoretical, complex, longer-term problem solving and operational, shorter-term problem-solving methodologies.
- Effective decision-making skills (e.g. problem identification, risk analysis, solution generation, prioritization, goal setting, conflict resolution, data gathering, problem prevention).
Technical Expertise:
- Market research techniques
- Information systems (DBS, MIS, UCC, etc.)
- Media alternatives
- Public relations
- Database management
- Values-based leadership tools and processes
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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