Director - Digital & IT

February 21

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Skillsoft

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Skillsoft is a company that provides enterprise learning solutions designed to rapidly develop employee skills and close skill gaps. The company offers various customized learning programs, including leadership and business skills, technology skills, compliance and ethics, and AI skills. Skillsoft's learning platforms, such as Codecademy for Enterprise and Skillsoft Percipio, enable organizations to transform their workforces through mentorship, coaching, and instructor-led training. With a focus on integrating learning options into organizational frameworks and supporting workforce development with assessments and reports, Skillsoft aims to prepare teams for the evolving demands of the digital era. More than 12,000 organizations trust Skillsoft for their employee learning and development needs.

Elearning • Training • Learning Solutions • Courseware • Learning Management System (LMS)

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• At Skillsoft, we propel organizations and people to grow together through transformative learning experiences. • In support of the Digital & Information Technology organization vision to ‘Unleash Skillsoft’s potential through innovative technologies’, the Director, Digital & IT – Enterprise Business Solutions, will lead a team of global technology professionals, managing, integrating, and transforming the company’s technology applications in support of Plan to Fulfill business process. • This role is responsible for overall technology enablement to support Skillsoft’s Instructor Led Training business unit in areas of Order Management, Event & Resource Management, Product and Fulfillment Management, Vendor Management, Customer/Student Engagement. • This role will be pivotal in supporting the company’s efforts to strengthen our operational foundations and modernize the end-to-end process with enabling technologies. • The ideal candidate will be a proven technology leader with progressive global IT experience, with a keen interest in developing a modern, agile culture, and display a strong desire to grow internal talent, leveraging the company’s global footprint to build a robust and future fit organization. • As an active member of the Global Digital & IT leadership team, the successful candidate will help shape and drive the future direction of the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of prior experience and proven track record in Digital & IT strategic leadership in a growth-driven global organization, with a prior leadership role in supporting an event-based business; Microsoft Dynamics experience highly desirable. • Deep technical understanding of current and future trends in supporting planning and fulfillment of events or comparable experience, capable of developing and executing a strategy that leverages new technology to support overall product/service evolution and business performance. • Experience delivering global programs (>$2M investment) with a multi-regional footprint, modernizing legacy application footprints and standardizing technology solutions across companies with a fragmented landscape. • Demonstrated experience in driving key business process transformations in M&A integrations • Solid experience with and understanding of SaaS, Information Security, and integration of IT applications and standardization of business processes • Ability to effectively balance the desire/need for broad change with an understanding of how much change the organization is capable of handling; to create realistic goals and implementation plans that are achievable and successful • Experience building technology teams in innovative, global, and progressive companies. Ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results. • Strong communication skills, with ability to naturally connect and build strong relationships with others, a team player demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively • Highly resilient, comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, ensuring an effective balance between internally and externally facing activities. • Strong analytical skills, with bias towards action and data driven decision making • Strong interest in and orientation towards developing talent and building highly functional teams. • Change agent with ability to lead through ambiguity and evolving business models with experience partnering with business to define KPIs and measures of success • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including iterative development and continuous improvement practices. Experience with global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)