Director Information Technology III

Description HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. Our $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers. HP invents.

IT is a driving for invention and creating building blocks to assemble integrated solutions and deliver consulting services that make the technology work. Excellence is the minimum standard acceptable.
 
Organization Size:
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) role will lead an IT Operations Control organization overseeing ~235 ERP applications, and a workforce of ~100 HP employees.  Experience managing a large, virtual global organization will be preferred.  Proven ability and a track record of selecting, leading and developing talent, including people managers and junior executives.

• Global strategic planning and execution of all IT related functions in support of the HP business overall as well as the IT organization
• Extensive interfacing with internal IT and business executives involving leading IT strategies, enabling business strategies, project portfolio management and delivery, budget planning and management, systems availability, etc.
• Interfacing with external business executives and customers worldwide
• Formal presentations and keynote speeches to industry executives
• Complex Vendor Management
• People Management (large organizations)
• Technical Leadership within all levels of the organization

Requirements A minimum of a Bachelor's or undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience is required. Professional certifications are a plus.
 
Responsibilities include all aspects of executive level leadership and require technical proficiencies aligned with the corresponding organizational areas supervised. 
 
Additional Requirements:

• 15 + years senior leadership experience in Information Technology within a large scale, global organization including:
• Background that includes hands-on technology  (a programmer or written code). 
• Responsibility for development and or support of major ERP and Middleware (i.e. SAP, Oracle, Siebel, remote procedure call, message oriented, object request   broker, SQL)
• Candidate has successfully led major programs/projects including disciplines like architecture, database, communications/network.   

 
Typical responsibilities, skills and abilities required for successful performance in this role include:

• Manages a large or broad function/department within a multifaceted organization. 
• Develops strategy and sets policy and direction. 
• Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. 
• Fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department. 
• Owns a significant number of measurable functional, operational and strategic goals or priorities. 
• Responsible for one or more recognized professional disciplines. 
• Assumes responsibility for the successful implementation of business plans in a defined area of responsibility. 
• Contributes to the overall strategic definition of a function with strong business acumen. 
• Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business.
• Developing a scalable organization focused at provide better service and value to the business.
• Managing large enterprise development projects and financial budgets.
• Direct communication and portfolio management for internal customers.
• Leveraging / managing external technology vendors.
• Hands on architecture, design, implementation and support of a large scale enterprise.
• Incident & escalation management

• Enable root cause identification
• Integrated support/demand planning
• Applications release management & move to production
• Audit & SOX compliance of accountable assets
• Application security management