COMPANY OVERVIEW

As the nation's largest producer of clean, carbon-free energy, Constellation is a company purposely-built to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. Constellation has been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade and we are growing our company and capabilities. Now, we're accelerating, speeding our low-carbon or no-carbon power to more people in more places, day and night, providing our customers and communities with options to buy, manage and use energy as part of their decarbonization mission. The race is on to confront the climate crisis and Constellation is ready to meet the challenge. Come join us as we lead energy, together.

TOTAL REWARDS

Constellation offers a wide range of benefits and rewards, designed to help our employees thrive professionally and personally. In addition to highly competitive salaries, we offer a bonus program, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program; comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, including a robust wellness program; paid time off for vacation, holidays and sick days; and much more.

Expected salary range of $288,000 to $320,000, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401(k).

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Lead the office of the CIO responsible for running the “business of IT, including IT’s overall governance and oversight functions, leading the development of the IT strategy, annual business planning, financial and operational performance reporting, organizational change management, strategic vendor management, and key compliance and control functions critical to the success of the IT function and the CIO agenda. The candidate must work effectively across senior IT leadership to ensure successful delivery of key business plan initiatives, compliance and controls are operating effectively, IT’s performance is consistently measured and communicated, and key risks are identified and resolved to ensure all IT areas achieve and sustain high performance. 

• Total Staff Managed: 40-50
• Budget Managed: $7-$10M (Baseline & Projects)
• Impact on external constituencies is very high as area of responsibility includes overseeing all IT governance and oversight functions that shape and report on IT’s financial, operational, and related performance to senior leadership.
• Impact on company performance is very high as failure to ensure IT’s strategies and plans are having the anticipated impact on Constellation’s strategic plan, business objectives, and cost optimization targets undermines the credibility of the function and ultimately the companies confidence in IT’s ability to hit key financial and operational targets.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategy & Planning:

Partner with Constellation leadership to develop, socialize, and execute the Constellation IT Strategy, including key initiatives to help Constellation meet business objectives. Lead IT’s annual planning process working across IT leadership to identify and prioritize key improvement initiatives. Includes responsibility for tracking and reporting on the status of IT’s business plan throughout the year to ensure transparency, alignment, and value realization.

Financial Management:

Partner with Finance to manage, socialize and optimize the IT budget. Associated activities include
long-range planning support, budgeting and
forecasting, increasing the level of accuracy in IT’s budgets and monthly forecasts,
and provide flexibility to support changes in business and financial plans. Additional scope includes
benchmarking IT costs to help value Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and other operational performance measures.

Vendor Management Office:

Oversee and manage the performance of strategically sourced vendors used across the IT landscape to ensure maximum benefits and value for the organization. This includes continuously assessing vendor capabilities and performance to deliver competitively priced, high-quality IT services and solutions within a risk-managed and growth-oriented environment. Work collaboratively with IT and Supply Chain leadership to enhance efficiencies, improve vendor performance, promote supplier diversity, and facilitate access to new skills.

Compliance & Controls:

Evolve the IT Compliance Program to align with relevant laws, regulations and industry standards. Ensure adherence to compliance requirements, including Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), through regular audits, assessments and control testing. Lead and oversee IT Risk Assessments to identify potential technology-related risks and vulnerabilities. Develop risk mitigation strategies and align on programs that minimize high impact risks. Partner with Constellation Audit Services and Enterprise Risk Management to ensure alignment on risk tolerance and strategy.

Program & Portfolio Management:

Provide standardization and efficiency of IT programs and projects through the use of tools, templates and processes. Manage portfolio performance and reporting to ensure consistency, transparency and alignment across Constellation IT. Lead the continued implementation and operationalization of IT Portfolio Management.

Organizational Change Management:

Drive strategic IT organizational transformation and change; align IT identity, values, and behaviors into a unified culture. Enable IT employees to effectively operationalize the IT Strategy and successfully execute programs and projects using the ADKAR model. Ensure change consistency through a program of services including change execution, change enablement and broad engagement. Drive successful change adoption in our business colleagues, partners, and customers.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or other core science disciplines
• At least fifteen years’ experience in Information Technology with recent experience leading IT governance and oversight. functions including: IT Strategic Planning, IT Business Planning, IT Vendor Management, Organizational Change Management, ITIL based processes.
• Ability to develop and maintain executive level relationship and demonstrated ability to influence strategic decisions and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to think conceptually required to effectively develop IT strategies and plans.
• Related experience facilitating transformational change across large scale enterprise functions requiring advanced communications, engagement, and presentation skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree in Information Systems or related discipline or MBA