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About the role
- Director managing coordination of teams and technical direction at AutoNation Headquarters. Leading strategic initiatives, budget development, and performance reviews.
Responsibilities
- Ensures department goal setting aligns with long-term AutoNation and Technology strategies.
- Develops business case and ROI to support initiatives and tracks and reports on performance.
- Establishes plans, processes and departmental strategies needed to meet those objectives.
- Typically leads diverse functions or processes, coordinating and integrating across organizational and functional boundaries as appropriate.
- Partners with and integrates across other areas of the organization, resolving conflicts and managing competing priorities, to provide a complete solution.
- Is accountable for the technical direction of the group, leveraging technical experts and fostering technical innovation.
- Creates and maintains their organization and contributes to the design of the overall Technology organization to optimally support the business.
- Drives medium-term (e.g., 1-3 years) strategic and policy decisions impacting the organization.
- Counsels and advises leadership on relevant technology strategies and policies.
- Proactively makes recommendations to business partners regarding the development of new services, projects and goals that further support and strengthen the capabilities of the business unit and AutoNation.
- Ensures quality, compliance, regulatory, and fiscal standards are met for their areas.
- Develops budget for their areas and ensures budget objectives are achieved through managers and other team members.
- Makes hiring decisions.
- Is responsible for all performance-related activities, including preparing and delivering performance reviews and any disciplinary recommendations.
Requirements
- Requires broad experience in the technical areas led, with the ability to identify and leverage technical experts in different specialized fields.
- Understands technical issues across diverse Technology functions or services but does not necessarily possess deep technical expertise in all the areas they supervise.
- Exercises judgment and influence on key technical decisions (for example, standards and policies, environment selection, technical solutions) within various groups.
- Develops processes/mechanisms to ensure that new technical developments related to their area(s) are identified, assessed, and integrated as appropriate.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and 401k matching
- Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with insurance plans (health, dental, vision) and maternity benefits.
- Associate purchase and discount programs for new and pre-owned vehicles, services, parts, collision, accessories, and AutoGear
- Access amazing deals and discounts through YouDecide, a website with offers from top providers and retailers
- Join our DRVPNK mission to raise and donate millions of dollars to cancer research and treatment, partnering with cancer charities nationwide
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