CIO

CIO

Job Overview

The CIO is tasked with planning, developing, implement, maintaining, and providing hands-on support of the information technology applications and infrastructure to support the company s operations and sales processes, communication needs, and current and future business plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities

• Accountable for the management and development of IT team members by ensuring employee engagement through coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Develop and implement IT strategy for the company which ensures maximum performance for value and consistency globally.
• Ensure reliability and maintenance of key hardware and software platforms and applications oversee daily performance of the computer systems and evaluate software programs for usefulness.
• Determine technical goals to achieve objectives.
• Evaluate technologies to determine how they can help the organization.
• Determine, coordinate, implement the installation and upgrading of hardware and software.
• Plan, coordinate, implement programming and systems design, such as applying existing systems resources to additional operations and making systems compatible for up-to-date information sharing (systems communicate).
• Design, install, and support the LAN/ WAN, network, internet, intranet system; provides day-today support for software users; ensures all components are performing properly; and surveys site to determine future needs.
• Strengthen EDI relationships with major wholesale customers.
• Responsible for security of computer networks
• Coordinate work of IT staff, whether employees or vendor personnel.
• Meet technical goals within timeframe and within budget.
• Create manuals or other training and user information resources providing users the knowledge to ensure efficient operations.

Main Competencies

• Strong project management knowledge and skills
• Strong technical knowledge and skills
• Strategic thinking
• Knowledge ERP system Blue Cherry, Office 365, EDI
• Disaster Recovery, Cloud bases solutions, PC, LAN/WAN, network operations
• Strong business systems/process knowledge and business skills.
• Effective interpersonal, team, and leadership skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree or equivalent with concentration in Computer Science or Information Technology
• 7 + experience - IT technical hands-on skills
• 2 + years experience - IT management, coordinating work of IT staff or outside consultants and project management
• Experience, hands-on as well as ability to solve, administer, and implement network operations, help desk support, programming/systems design, computer system security.
• Experience (hands-on) - created manuals, training, and/or user information resources.
• Business process / systems applied knowledge and skills.

Technical skills they are looking for are:

• Blue Cherry or ERP systems experience,
• EDI,
• EXPERIENCE in an APPAREL or WHOLESALE ENVIRONMENT.
• EXPERIENCE managing applications development, Infrastructure, operations, project management, and desktop support teams.
• APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS - POWER BI DASHBOARD DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
• Knowledge of the AS/400 system is a plus.