I.T Director Job

Applied Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a Director, Enterprise Solutions to work in a strong partnership with our Sales team to identify and pursue consulting opportunities with clients and prospects. In this role, you will have broad responsibilities including pre sale support, revenue and profitability growth, methodology definition, and service delivery excellence. You will develop deep product implementation expertise and cultivate product expertise within the team to address clients’ business priorities through the delivery of creative, compelling, and impact technical solutions from an enterprise software standpoint.
You will ensure success through your mix of business management, sales skills, technical skills, and insurance industry credibility. Additional responsibilities include developing consulting services offerings and pursuing consulting opportunities with existing clients. Overseeing service delivery across all solution lines required to deliver the client solution. Partnering with peer customer service leads to drive effective communication and a positive client experience. Establishing aggressive annual departmental objectives and goals that are in alignment with Applied Systems’ goals to improve customer and employee satisfaction and profitability.
Managing personnel including hiring, annual performance evaluations, new employee evaluations, employee training, staffing, and salary administration. Meeting regularly with staff to review progress, issues, accomplishments and areas of concern. Providing monthly reporting on department progress, status on department goals and objectives, concerns, and where applicable actions to complete items by agreed upon dates. Collaborating regularly with Sales Management to determine opportunities for additional services to both new and existing customers.
The Director of Information Technology will provide strategic and technical planning of information technology to meet the organization's objectives. This position requires a strong technical background, excellent client and project management skills, proven ability to do hands on technical work when needed, and ability to lead technical projects and technical teams. Successful candidates must be action oriented, capable of independently solving complex technical problems and able to communicate clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences. Conceptualize, evaluate, and implement information technology strategies, plans or budgets, and priorities for a comprehensive company wide information technology program.