Wabtec Corporation

Director

• Drive organizational alignment by continuously identifying, connecting, and amplifying cross-functional IT initiatives, creating a unified strategic approach that maximizes resource utilization and eliminates operational silos
• Orchestrate the Wabtec IT's strategic planning process driving, while providing data-driven insights to enable informed decision-making across IT and business leadership
• Own and orchestrate Wabtec IT's adaptive strategy process, ensuring regular evaluation of market trends, emerging technologies, and business needs to pivot strategic initiatives, while optimizing resource utilization and maintaining fiscal discipline within established guardrails
• Proactively assess and recognize strategic risks and opportunities across the IT landscape, creating data-driven action plans, developing comprehensive mitigation strategies and actionable plans to maximize IT and business value
• Facilitate and ensure cross-functional collaboration between IT sub-groups (business applications, data and analytics, infrastructure, and international teams) to ensure cohesion and alignment of strategic IT initiatives
• Serve as IT representative in executive and departmental staff meetings to promote strategic alignment, share insights, and foster partnership across IT business units
• Partner across IT groups to design, implement, and evolve performance measurement frameworks that not only track operational effectiveness, but actively identify improvement opportunities, optimize resources, and quantify IT's strategic impact
• Partner with PMO to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and strategic alignment across IT sub-groups, ensuring cohesive communication, synchronized initiatives, and unified approach to technology strategy implementation
• Design and execute monthly and quarterly IT leadership operational review meetings, ensuring consistent tracking of strategic initiatives and KPIs
• Partner with Communications and IT Leadership teams to plan and deliver compelling Quarterly All Hands meetings that reinforce strategic priorities
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the VP of IT, Strategy & Operational Effectiveness providing data-driven insights and recommendations to inform executive decision-making and shape IT's strategic direction
• Lead special strategic projects as assigned by the VP of IT, Strategy & Operational Effectiveness
• Partner with IT teams to create and communicate impactful business value stories, helping translate technical initiatives into measurable business outcomes, and developing compelling narratives that demonstrate IT's strategic value to stakeholders

Director - IT Strategy & Performance