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Who is NetJets?
NetJets Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the pioneer and worldwide leader in fractional aircraft ownership. NetJets began in 1964 as the first aircraft charter company. Today, NetJets offers not only fractional aircraft ownership but also jet cards through its subsidiary, Marquis JetSM as well as aircraft management and on-demand charter services through its subsidiary, Executive Jet® Management. NetJets is truly a global company with operations in the United States and Europe and an affiliation with the provider of the NetJets Middle East Program.
Are You Ready?
NetJets leads the industry. More companies and individuals use NetJets than all other providers combined. To continue to succeed, NetJets must constantly employ the best and brightest talent to lead our company into the future.
At NetJets, it’s not just about filling a position or hiring a person, it’s about embracing personality. It’s about finding someone who wants to make a difference, someone with distinct qualities, a natural talent and a unique perspective on things.
We believe that associates who are committed to their work, enjoy their jobs and want to surpass customer expectations will make NetJets a great company. If that's you, NetJets can give you the rewarding experience you’re looking for.
Opportunity:
We are hiring a Director, Software Systems position in our Information Technology department. The Director, Software Systems is responsible for the successful delivery of software solutions as well as successful relationship management with specific business functions/domains. This position manages a technical team of project managers, business analysts and developers, as well as other matrixed resources, required to deliver a broad set of software development initiatives ranging from small software enhancements to major business projects. This position will be located in Columbus, OH.
What do you need to join our team?
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Course of Study/Major: Business or Computer Science/Systems Analysis
Type of Credentials/Licenses: None Required
Related Work Experience: 10+ years
- Seven (7) years experience in an IT environment of equivalent size and complexity as NetJets
- Four (4) years experience as manager leading, managing, supervising and directing the work of others
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including delegating, mentoring, and coaching
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver management reports with an aim toward improving operational efficiency and quality • Excellent speaking, writing, and presentation skills
- Experience leading cross-functional teams
- Possess strong planning, budgeting and financial analysis skills
- Possess strong data collection design, data and statistical analysis, and data presentation skills
- Experience facilitating meetings, including building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary
- General Management/Leadership - Ability to act as a change agent and inspire others through conviction, vision, and the ability to formulate and articulate direction.
- Judgment - Ability to identify critical information, even in unfamiliar situations and use it to select practical, effective courses of action; flexibility to deal with, and react to, change in a positive constructive manner.
- Interpersonal Relations - Ability to influence direction with maintaining sensitivity to potentially divergent viewpoints and positions. Success in building teamwork through open and honest communication.
- Results/Goal Orientation - Skills in setting aggressive measurable goals and objectives for oneself and being measured against them; motivation to achieve specific, challenging, and focused results; ability to lead and motivate others.
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects or initiatives while maintaining attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to learn and quickly comprehend new concepts and technologies
- Possess strong/effective problem solving and decision-making skills
- Strong aptitude for process of risk management as it pertains to project delivery and pattern recognition for identifying risk and troubled projects, and ability to develop and implement course correcting strategies preventing projects from going too far off track.
- Experience with project/resource management tools, project financial tracking, risk management, and software development life cycle and project management life cycle processes and disciplines.
- Experience managing large scale (enterprise level or multi-million $$) IT projects or large (20+ people) software development organizations.
- Experience in 1 or more commercial or custom full life cycle SDLC and/or Project Management methodologies.
- Experience developing cost/benefit analysis and understanding ROI as it relates to the financial justification of IT projects.
- Experience writing project plans and developing project schedules.
- Experience using MS Project or similar tools.
- Experience producing project status reports for multiple audiences.
- Experience in change, risk and scope management.
- Experience in Business Intelligence, Mobile Technologies, Content/Document Management, or Portal Platforms is desired.
What does a Director, Software Systems do?
- Develop and maintain a close business relationship with business functions/domains responsible for. Be intimately involved with business meetings, direction setting, goal setting, etc. in order to ensure business needs are being met.
- Obtain project status, manage risks and issues, and mitigate and/or resolve as appropriate through cross team involvement, business involvement, or further escalation.
- Direct the team on solutions and approaches, and reconcile priorities across Software Systems. Take appropriate actions within the team as priorities change.
- Measure and communicate progress on current projects. Recommend course of action based on potential issues and risks that arise.
- Process Improvement: ensure consistent improvement in software delivery practices, creating repeatable processes and metrics that mitigate business risk associated with software development.
- Team Administration: team building through leadership and teamwork advocacy, mentoring, various approvals, budgeting, training, performance evaluation, etc.; develop New Solutions objectives in support of overall department objectives.
- Innovation: establish broad view of business applications developed over time and identify and develop recommendations and business cases that enable the business to recognize strategic opportunities that exist as technology develops across the business areas and integration occurs.
Take the Next Step
More information on the Director, Software Systems position can be found online via www.netjets.com and clicking on "careers" (at the bottom of the page). You may build a profile or just search opportunities. The reference number is 110304, Director Software Systems.
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