Vice President of IT

BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition is a fast-paced, dynamic environment where brand builders work together with the goal of becoming innovative game-changers in the world of sports and active hydration. Extreme passion and teamwork are the essentials of being a successful member of the BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition team – which consists of BODYARMOR and POWERADE brands. BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition exudes an entrepreneurial culture backed by the resources and insights of one of the world’s most iconic companies, The Coca-Cola Company, which acquired BODYARMOR in 2021. This unique environment gives employees the ability to move quickly, exceed expectations, develop valuable relationships, and have fun while we work to achieve our goal of becoming #1 in Sports Hydration.

BODYARMOR is looking for a Vice President of IT to join our team.

The VP of Information Technology is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and designing activities and projects in IT, providing both strategic and hands on direction and support for IT solutions that enhance mission-critical business operations. This individual will collaborate with executive management team, and key decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. The position leads and manages the IT organization, inclusive of enterprise applications, business systems supporting various verticals in Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Commercial, Human Resources, SaaS based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), IT Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Data Management and Protection, Cyber Security and Reporting platforms. In addition, the Vice President of IT will develop and manage application portfolios and attain IT service levels for the user community within the organization.

Responsibilities

Strategic and Tactical Leadership

• Direct and manage IT plans, schedules, policies, programs, and maintenance for BODYARMOR data processing, network communications, ERP system, computer services, cyber security, sales and reporting platform and enterprise application systems.
• Identify and analyze emerging information technologies which support BODYARMOR long-term strategic goals. Integrate these important new technologies skillfully while providing strong direction and leadership to develop teams.
• Establish Information Systems policies, standards, practices, and safeguard information.
• Develops and oversee IT expense and capital budgets that support both long-term and short-term objectives. Oversee project initiation and prioritization. Research and recommend new systems/software products and services to support achieving corporate financial targets.
• Manage and evaluate vendor relationships. Negotiate all IT contracts, including software and hardware vendors as well as contract personnel. Scope of agreements range from $15k to $1mm+ per contract. Develop and manage all IT vendors, contract personnel, and outsourcing arrangements.
• Develop, document, and maintain cyber security policies and procedures, evaluate security risks, execute annual cyber security testing and serve as the security expert
• Oversee development, implementation and testing of BODYARMOR disaster recovery plans as it pertains to BODYARMOR Data and other backend technology functions.
• Oversee development and implementation of infrastructure architecture, IT governance, performance, availability, incident, capacity, configuration, SDLC and change-management processes and tools to support required uptime and available SLAs
  
  

Organizational Partnership and Leadership

• Inform and influence executive management, Coca-Cola Global IT and cross functional leadership to develop a multi-year IT & Digital strategy and roadmap that supports short, mid and long term corporate and departmental priorities and objectives.
• Lead high performing teams in Infrastructure and Business App Development employees and contractors ranging from mid to high level managers.
• Attract high caliber talent with diverse skill sets and continually develop team member capabilities by accurately appraising strengths and weaknesses and providing constructive feedback appropriately.
• Oversee ongoing engagement with cross functional leadership and department stakeholders to track progress against active projects. Collaborate and align on development of KPIs to measure and track success/failure of initiatives. Lead troubleshooting effort to provide solutions to challenges and obstacles.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Information Technology required, Master’s degree preferred
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience (including experience in a multi-office environment) required
• Experience leading technical infrastructure, supply chain operations, reporting systems, internal applications and ERP teams using modern cloud architecture, NetSuite implementation experience Preferred
• A demonstrated ability to lead a team of technical staff through process changes while working with executive teams is a must.
• High level verbal and written communication skills to influence at every level of organization, from executive management to analyst
• Must possess the ability to meet deadlines, to conduct research into IT issues and products, and to take initiative in the development and completion of projects.
• Extensive project management, organizational and time management skills will be needed.
• Track record for delivery in a high-growth, rapidly changing environment
• PMP certification preferred
• Experience in Application development and implementation using cloud providers, microservice applications, api/integration platforms, and general product engineering best practices environment along with understanding of network and communications technologies and architectures.
• Strong command of Microsoft products, including Azure and Microsoft 365 and CoPilot
• Ability to act as liaison between technical and non-technical teams
• 10% Travel required by car or plane