Director managing coordination of teams and technical direction at AutoNation Headquarters. Leading strategic initiatives, budget development, and performance reviews.
Responsibilities
Ensures department goal setting aligns with long-term AutoNation and Technology strategies.
Develops business case and ROI to support initiatives and tracks and reports on performance.
Establishes plans, processes and departmental strategies needed to meet those objectives.
Typically leads diverse functions or processes, coordinating and integrating across organizational and functional boundaries as appropriate.
Partners with and integrates across other areas of the organization, resolving conflicts and managing competing priorities, to provide a complete solution.
Is accountable for the technical direction of the group, leveraging technical experts and fostering technical innovation.
Creates and maintains their organization and contributes to the design of the overall Technology organization to optimally support the business.
Drives medium-term (e.g., 1-3 years) strategic and policy decisions impacting the organization.
Counsels and advises leadership on relevant technology strategies and policies.
Proactively makes recommendations to business partners regarding the development of new services, projects and goals that further support and strengthen the capabilities of the business unit and AutoNation.
Ensures quality, compliance, regulatory, and fiscal standards are met for their areas.
Develops budget for their areas and ensures budget objectives are achieved through managers and other team members.
Makes hiring decisions.
Is responsible for all performance-related activities, including preparing and delivering performance reviews and any disciplinary recommendations.
Requirements
Requires broad experience in the technical areas led, with the ability to identify and leverage technical experts in different specialized fields.
Understands technical issues across diverse Technology functions or services but does not necessarily possess deep technical expertise in all the areas they supervise.
Exercises judgment and influence on key technical decisions (for example, standards and policies, environment selection, technical solutions) within various groups.
Develops processes/mechanisms to ensure that new technical developments related to their area(s) are identified, assessed, and integrated as appropriate.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and 401k matching
Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with insurance plans (health, dental, vision) and maternity benefits.
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