Digital Transformation Director

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Digital Transformation Director to join our team at Pilgrim's. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for driving our digital transformation strategy across all U.S. business units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evolve and manage the company's Digital Transformation Program by applying best practices in the industry, leading cross-functional teams, and effectively managing stakeholder expectations.
• Refine and manage an operating and governance model with a collaborative cross-functional organizational structure, defining the most appropriate prioritization model and effective methods to attain the program/business objectives.
• Provide thorough leadership, conduct workshops, and identify big business opportunities in the supply chain where technology can create significant value to the company.
• Build and manage the digital transformation roadmap in partnership with stakeholders, diving deep into the company's major business opportunities and challenges, identifying capability and process improvement opportunities solvable through technology.
• Identify the best tech stack, use cases, and applications within BI, AI, Cloud, IoT, and Automation/robotics to support our business needs.
• Work collaboratively with IT to define the right technology solutions, architectures, platforms, and partners.
• Define strategic and tactical priorities, developing, proposing, and managing budgets to support our digital initiatives.
• Own, build, and maintain a Project Management Office for the Digital Transformation initiatives, successfully providing visibility to the executive team and all stakeholders on the status of our project portfolio.
• Recommend new priorities and investments, rebalancing priorities, addressing any constraints in resources and dependencies, and making sure that the proposed benefits are delivered in a disciplined way, while proactively discontinuing ineffective initiatives.
• Properly develop and manage our vendors and partnerships to create easy access to new solutions and capabilities, with the ability to scale in a cost-effective manner.
• Manage the development work, making sure the projects are delivered in accordance with the program objectives, benefits, requirements, and tech specifications.
• Make sure we have sound and efficient product solutions, that are easy to scale, integrate, and evolve, reliable, secure, while building an agile innovation operating model.
• Create clear communication plans with all stakeholders involved, building valuable relationships, building the right processes, procedures, standards, and control mechanisms to properly execute the Program and regularly report the results to the company leaders.
• Work closely with IT and partners to define the best productionizing plan, with the most effective ML-Ops and Dev-ops.
• Hire, develop, and manage high-performing functional and technical teams (solution architects, project managers, UI/UX leads, software developers, QA leads, cloud teams, data scientists, engineers), directly or indirectly, by providing the right guidance, mentorship, and specialized training.
• Work with stakeholders to create the program communication, generate collaboration, identify talents for our work with our initiatives, provide the right training strategy to develop our digital capabilities and increase technology adoption.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, Business Analytics, Business Administration, or related fields.
• Strong leadership ability, with a proven track record of translating business objectives to transformation programs and initiatives, with clear technical solutions that drive ROI.
• Leadership experience managing transformation programs, with sound knowledge of process improvement disciplines. Consulting background is a plus.
• 10+ years of IT project experience is preferred.
• 6+ years of experience working in software and digital technology development, supervising technology teams, and overseeing large projects, with 2 or more years of hands-on data science, project management, BI experience, or a combination of these.
• Demonstrated leadership in leveraging advanced machine learning and data science technologies to drive business transformation and achieve strategic objectives.
• Experience in guiding teams in the application of technologies such as neural networks, machine learning, and other analytical methods to solve complex business challenges.
• Overall Business Intelligence and Data Analytics proficiency. SAP BI HANA and QlikSense reporting would be a plus.
• Strong ability to use logic and excellent problem-solving and code debugging skills.
• Demonstrated experience with agile development methods. Agile at scale is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Experience in agricultural/meat/animal industries is a plus.

About Pilgrim's:

Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the U.K. We process, prepare, package, and deliver fresh, further-processed, and value-added poultry products for sale to customers in more than 100 countries, employ more than 60,000 people, and contract with more than 5,200 family farmers.

Pilgrim's is headquartered in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, at the JBS USA corporate office where our 1,200 employees enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.

Our Mission:

To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders, and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.

Our Core Values:

Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity