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Company Description
Boyd Gaming Corporation has been successful in gaming jurisdiction in which we operate in the United States and is one of the premier casino entertainment companies in the United States. Never content to rest upon our successes, we will continue to evolve and retain a position of leadership in our industry. Our past success, our current business philosophies and our sound business planning, combine to position Boyd Gaming Corporation to maximize value for our shareholders, our team members and our communities.
Job Description
The VP - IT Operations is a senior role within Boyd Gaming's Information Technology Operations function. The VP - IT Operations is accountable for the delivery of Boyd Gaming's Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and related IT operations used to enable business capabilities and services across the enterprise.
Reporting to the SVP, Business Technology, this position oversees the delivery of all IT infrastructure and related operations that support business capabilities and services across the enterprise.
The VP - IT Operations brings leadership, experience, knowledge, and future vision to transforming the IT Operations function including its strategy, operating model, product and service offerings, and workforce. The role holder is a senior stakeholder in all relationships with externally sourced infrastructure and operations capabilities.
As a key member of the senior IT leadership team, this role contributes to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide IT strategy and is responsible for ensuring that the IT Operations strategy is fully aligned, positioning IT to deliver compelling business value.
Key responsibilities for the VP - IT Operations include, but are not limited to the following:
Sets the mission, vision, and strategy of the IT Operations organization to maximize the success of business and IT enterprise initiatives.
Introduces innovative, differentiating infrastructure and operations capabilities that enhance our overall competitive capabilities and enhance team member productivity.
Works with the IT senior leadership team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources, including budget. Works with key stakeholders to measure and prioritize technical debt remediation.
Builds successful stakeholder relationships with other IT and business stakeholders by developing a clear understanding of business needs, acting as a trusted advisor, and ensuring cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs.
Creates and aligns an IT Operations value map by linking targeted business outcomes with the future-state business capabilities required to achieve them.
Drives alignment of IT Operations strategies to the organization's environmental, social and governance goals.
Develop and control the annual IT Operations budget to ensure that it's consistent with the overall strategic objectives of IT and the enterprise and is within plan. Creates a culture of continuous cost optimization.
Defines, develops, and manages a comprehensive and integrated IT Service Management (ITSM) landscape, based on best-practice processes, disciplines, and related toolsets. This includes delivery of a comprehensive IT asset management program.
Collaborate with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to ensure IT Operations contributes to, embraces, and applies security strategy.
Operates a formal governance mechanism to establish and monitor effective controls for the processes and functions performed by IT Operations teams. Supports periodic reviews by audit teams, compliance teams and other risk-related functions as required.
Develops and executes a strategy to improve awareness of the business value that the IT Operations function provides and continuously seeks to ensure alignment to customer needs.
Designs and develop a strong and diverse IT Operations leadership team, together with a reporting structure for the function.
Works collaboratively with direct reports to support their career progression, nurture their development and to help them realize their potential.
Improves IT resilience by executing strategies that improve reliability, tolerability, and disaster recovery readiness.
Keeps track of trends and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be incorporated into IT Operations products and services to successfully deliver an overall IT strategy.
Champions IT Operations involvement in the organization's innovation efforts and encourages experimentation with new solutions to avail business opportunities.
Provides strategic direction and oversight for the full life cycle of IT systems, working in close partnership with peers, and identifies where common approaches, solutions, and shared platforms provided by IT Operations could drive efficiency.
Directs the development of an IT Operations sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management.
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About the Company
Boyd Gaming Corporation is one of the nation's leading casino entertainment companies, but we're so much more than that! We're a billion-dollar, publicly-traded company that retains the philosophy of a family-owned business, focused on creating long-term, sustainable growth for our shareholders. This philosophy defines and separates us from the competition, making us unique in our industry. From our beginnings in the 1970s, we made a commitment to our guests, employees, and communities to create a culture and an operating st...
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