
Vice President, Information Technology
Phillips Industries
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Fairfield • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and evolve a high-performing global technology organization that supports a growing, international business
- Recruit, develop, and retain strong senior leaders and high-impact individual contributors
- Design and continuously refine team structures, roles, and career paths as the organization matures
- Serve as a coach and mentor while staying close enough to execution to maintain credibility
- Ensure every role within IT has a clear development plan aligned to long-term growth
- Own and maintain a multi-year enterprise technology roadmap aligned to company growth, operational leverage, and risk posture
- Directly control technology budgets, headcount planning, and vendor strategy
- Shape investment decisions by initiating high-impact opportunities, rejecting low-value initiatives, and sequencing work to balance speed, capacity, and risk
- Design governance models that support experimentation through pilots, staged funding, and clear decision gates
- Serve as the enterprise owner of cyber risk and technology risk posture
- Establish a scalable security operating model that grows with headcount, geography, and system complexity
- Ensure executive visibility into cyber risk, controls, and readiness
- Ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-effective technology operations across all locations
- Own global endpoint strategy, service desk performance, system administration, and platform reliability
- Lead all internal development efforts including: ERP extensions and integrations, reporting and data platforms, workflow automation and process digitization
- Champion a technology philosophy of placing the right data in the right system for the right role.
- Introduce and mature product management practices for enterprise systems and system-backed processes
- Lead Business Solutions teams that translate business needs into scalable, sustainable technical solutions.
Requirements
- Must be based in New Jersey (or able to work on-site 4 days per week at our Fairfield, NJ headquarters)
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise technology within a global organization
- Demonstrated ownership of technology investment portfolios, including budget accountability, prioritization, and ROI realization
- Experience operating in both centralized and decentralized organizational models
- Proven track record deploying and overseeing cybersecurity programs in a multi-site, international environment with 400+ employees
- Hands-on leadership exposure to: Enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, WMS, marketing automation, and Microsoft Office
- Custom development and system integration
- Enterprise-level cybersecurity governance and incident readiness
- Proven ability to operate as a strategic business partner, not simply a service provider
- Executive presence with the ability to independently present strategy, budgets, tradeoffs, and outcomes to ownership
- Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to translate technology decisions into operational and economic impact
- Comfort leading through ambiguity and resolving cross-functional tension without default escalation.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary ranging from $200,000 - $215,000, based on your experience.
- Company bonus program
- Annual Cost of Living Increase
- Retirement Plan - company automatically contributes approximately 10% of your annual compensation
- Health Benefits: Medical Coverage – low cost to the employee ($40 per month)
- Spouse/ Domestic Partner/ Civil Union Partner Coverage
- Family Coverage
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Prescription Plan
- Dental and vision coverage
- Tax advantages through Flexible Spending Accounts that allow you to pay for specific healthcare and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars
- 23 Paid days off per calendar year
- 10 Paid holidays
- Detailed onboarding plans that outline 30/60/90 goals and trainings.
- Earn Paid time off for community service - Up to 3 days per year
- Employee Discount on PJ Wallcoverings
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise technologycybersecurity programscustom developmentsystem integrationERPCRMWMSmarketing automationbudget accountabilityROI realization
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringstrategic business partnershipexecutive presencefinancial acumenbusiness acumenconflict resolutionadaptabilitycommunication