Operations Technology Innovation Lead

Where will you work: Hybrid onsite at Lithia, FL (3 days in office)

What will you do:

• Work with business stakeholders, IT Business Partners, and other team members to understand business innovation opportunities and strategy, drive the design and modeling of solutions that support short- and long-term objectives and ensure stakeholder needs are reflected.

• Coordinate effort of business case prioritization, development and executive management approval.

• Develop and manage product roadmap.

• Define product vision, product roadmap and growth opportunities.

• Prioritize operations technology needs to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and are aligned with operations strategy.

• Incorporate technology request into roadmap.

• Build and maintain standard valuation models.

• Assess and uplift project valuation.

• Initiate technology audits identifying gaps and actioning closure to value.

• In concert with IT, showcase new technologies across the enterprise.

• Partnering with innovation hubs globally.

• Participating and semi-annual roadshows across the organization to highlight and cascade to customers.

What will you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems required

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• 7+ years demonstrated experience in project management to include delivering projects from ideation to completion.

• Experience leading initiatives and /or greenfield projects.

• Strong requirements elicitation, gathering, and documentation skills, at business, functional, and technical levels

• Ability to manage customer requirements and scope discussions; as well as ability to facilitate large groups (in person or virtually)

• Ability to translate metrics into business decisions of importance and priorities

• Direct hands-on experience with refining backlogs and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements

• Successful track record of delivering projects within deadlines and budgets.