IT Manager - Vehicle Solutions Investment Delivery

Overview

Enterprise Mobility is a leading provider of mobility solutions, owning and operating the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands through its integrated global network of independent regional subsidiaries. Enterprise Mobility and its affiliates offer extensive car rental, carsharing, truck rental, fleet management, retail car sales, as well as travel management and other transportation services, to make travel easier and more convenient for customers.  

Privately held by the Taylor family of St. Louis, Enterprise Mobility together with its affiliate Enterprise Fleet Management manages a diverse fleet of 2.4 million vehicles and accounted for nearly $39 billion in revenue through a network of more than 9,500 fully-staffed neighborhood and airport rental locations in more than 90 countries and territories. 

At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.

As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule, which includes the ability to work from home, while also requiring to be in person as needed at our Lakeside and/or Clayton Corporate HQ campus locations in St. Louis, Missouri.

We are committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. Candidates should expect identity verification, video interviews, technical validation of skills, and verification of employment, education, and work authorization. Falsification of information, proxy interviewing, or misrepresentation of experience or location will result in disqualification.

Responsibilities

It's an exciting time to join the Vehicle Solutions team as we’re in the early phases of a transformational strategic initiative (Vehicle Acquisition Modernization) that will modernize the way the business forecasts, analyzes, values, and purchases our global fleet across all lines of business.In addition, the Vehicle Solutions team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of multiple other vehicle applications and services, which are used by other business and IT domains. As an IT Manager in this space, you will be responsible for leading a team of IT resources in our Investment Delivery area, while developing skillsets and productivity. In addition, you will have responsibilities associated with cross-team collaboration, gaining alignment, and ensuring deliverable deadlines are adhered to.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development Team – lead and develop your team to accomplish objectives while developing the skills and improving engagement across employees. Our teams are responsible for developing and supporting technology solutions that enable global business operations and span the full vehicle lifecycle including acquisition, onboarding, maintaining/repairing, and selling vehicles.
• Communication, Persuading, and Influencing – the ability to influence through clear communication is essential. Sharing information, listening to feedback, validating and negotiating expectations, and partnering and providing context will be a key responsibility. Ensure alignment and support of team through transformational project and organizational change.
• Project Coordination – responsible for leading and facilitating planning sessions, estimation sessions, demos, retrospectives, and project management. In this role, you will work closely with managers and other development team members to build the product vision, product themes, release plans, and iteration plans. Partnership across various IT disciplines, Global Product, and Business Leadership will be critical.

Successful candidates will possess the following traits:

• Intellectual curiosity
• Strong team player with leadership competencies
• Actively develops team and fosters growth
• Enable and empower the team to accomplish objectives
• Strategic vision
• Excellent communication skills
• Adaptability
• Execution-oriented

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must have a professional attitude, a strong desire and ability to take ownership, ability to provide high quality customer service, and a willingness to expend extra effort to achieve optimal results
• Must have ability to effectively lead teams in executing on and pivoting between multiple simultaneous high-priority efforts
• Must be able to identify gaps and/or barriers to success, and articulate those findings to leadership
• Excellent at building and maintaining relationships across and outside of the IT organization
• Must be able to effectively manage problems and conflicts as they occur
• Must be detail oriented with strong problem solving and time management skills
• Must have a flexible schedule to accommodate periodic after-hours and weekend on-call rotations and response to incidents when necessary

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Qualifications

Required:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• 6+ years of related experience
• Experience in people management, to include career planning/support, training, interviewing, hiring, rewarding, disciplining, and conducting performance and salary reviews; Proven ability to grow and develop direct reports
• Experience in leading and mentoring technically skilled individuals
• Experience managing technical projects, tasks, and schedules using JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of and experience working through the software development lifecycle 
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred
• Experience leading a geographically distributed team 
• Ability to work in multiple project management methodologies including: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative and Hybrid