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Overview

The VP of IT Strategy & Transformation serves as an executive leader aligning business strategy with technology execution across North America. This role defines, operationalizes, and evolves the three-year IT strategy, translating enterprise priorities into actionable, value-driven execution plans.

As a key strategic advisor to the CIO and executive leadership team, this role drives cross-functional alignment, resolves systemic operational challenges, and leverages data-driven insights to maximize technology investment returns across all business units.

The position bridges executive stakeholders, vendor partners, and delivery teams, building a high-performing technology portfolio that enhances agility, supports scalable growth, and delivers measurable business outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Executive Strategic Leadership: Serve as an authoritative strategic partner in executive decision-making, driving cross-functional problem-solving across complex business, technical, and commercial ecosystems.

• Enterprise & Global Integration: Align regional and global technology teams across North American business units to foster operational synergy, consistency, and streamlined execution.

• Financial & Commercial Governance: Lead enterprise vendor strategy and high-stakes commercial negotiations while managing total cost of ownership (TCO) and budget governance across technology portfolios.

• Multi-Year Strategic Roadmap: Synthesize inputs across Corporate Systems, Infrastructure, and Application Development to construct and govern a unified three-year IT roadmap.

• Cross-Functional Portfolio Orchestration: Oversee portfolio dependencies, program sequencing, and resource allocation across teams to maximize delivery capacity and strategic impact.

• Executive Presence & Board Governance: Develop board-level communications, executive briefing materials, and market trend analyses to inform corporate strategy and champion key technology initiatives.

• IT Operating Model Modernization: Define and evolve the IT Operating Model to accelerate speed-to-market, mature Agile practices, and establish adaptive governance frameworks.

• Business Relationship Management: Direct the IT Business Partnering function across North American business units to ensure technology leadership is embedded as an active co-creator of business strategy.

• Strategic Vendor Ecosystem Management: Partner with Procurement to maintain an enterprise IT vendor strategy, driving partner performance and alignment with scaling and ROI targets.

• Capital & Operational Budget Leadership: Oversee the IT CapEx and OpEx budgets, optimizing sourcing strategies and leveraging key strategic partnerships to maximize enterprise value.

• Change Enablement & Technology Adoption: Collaborate with HR and business leaders to drive change orchestration, user adoption, and proficiency to realize expected investment outcomes.

• Enterprise PMO Governance: Direct the Enterprise PMO and portfolio governance to deliver financial transparency, disciplined program execution, and post-implementation ROI measurement.

• Demand Shaping & Strategic Prioritization: Establish a structured demand-shaping framework to guide executive leadership trade-off discussions and ensure IT resources focus on high-value business priorities.

Candidate Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, or Engineering; MBA or advanced degree highly preferred. Equivalent experience also considered.

Experience

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in IT Strategy, Management Consulting, or Portfolio Operations.

• 7+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and managing significant departmental budgets.

• A track record of leading large-scale digital transformations or pivot-points within complex, matrixed organizations.

Skills & Competencies

• Proven ability to move emerging technologies (e.g., Generative AI, Edge Computing) from pilot to enterprise-grade, scaled solutions.

• Adept at navigating high-stakes ELT discussions to convert technical roadmaps into quantifiable business outcomes such as Revenue, EBITDA, and Market Share.

• Exceptional ability to distill disparate business requirements into a cohesive, multi-year technology blueprint that addresses enterprise-wide needs.

• Professional discipline in identifying redundant initiatives and decommissioning underperforming projects to reallocate resources toward high-growth imperatives.

• Expertise in evolving traditional PMOs into lean, value-driven governance models that enhance speed-to-market while maintaining rigorous compliance.

• Strategic oversight of "Big Tech" partnerships (Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce) and boutique consultancies to ensure operational performance and cost-efficiency.

Why Choose Us?

A career with the Rentokil family of companies can be a professional trajectory filled with opportunity. We pride ourselves on being a world-class team that rewards high performance, and we love to promote from within. We offer competitive pay and many of our roles offer performance incentives.

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Professional and Personal Growth

• Multiple avenues to grow your career

• Training and development programs available

• Tuition Reimbursement benefits (for FT Colleagues)

Health and Wellness

• Full-time colleagues are eligible to begin enrollment immediately upon hire with benefits starting on day 1

• Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance plus much more

Savings and Retirement

• 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching contributions

Work-Life Balance

• Vacation days & sick days

• Company-paid holidays & floating holidays

• A company mindset that prioritizes health, safety, and flexibility

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