Sr IT Section Leader

Lead with purpose as a Senior IT Section Leader. Take charge of a high-performing technical team, guiding a team of associates in delivering exceptional IT solutions and customer service. As a recognized expert in your discipline, you'll manage resources, drive operational excellence, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

What You'll Do

• Maintains an aggregate view of customer demand for IT support versus IT resource capacity. Evaluates resources availability & assign work to resources, based on work priority & skill set. Assigns production support (Steady State Maintenance) tasks to application development resources. Designs & uses management reports for resource utilization to maximize utilization of IT resources. Manages the review, selection & implementation of relevant resource planning tools. Partners with IT & business leadership & other key stakeholders to drive project approval & prioritization processes.
• Drives the team to deliver work on time & on budget to the customers with no post-production rework needed. Monitors team & project performance against specified success criteria/metrics.
• Analyzes & communicate the impact of all scope changes on estimates & resource plans. Manages purchase requisitions, purchase orders & vendor invoices for IT suppliers.
• Motivates and coach associates. Completes the annual individual performance review (IPR) process, including setting objective, evaluating performance & providing frequent feedback. Conducts career path dialogues with all associates. Creates development plans & monitor associate progress. Recognizes & rewards behaviors & contributions that are in line with personal, departmental, or company values & objectives.
• Provides subject matter expertise to the function supported.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, MIS, computer science or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive IT & management experience; a proven track record of successful project management & on-time, on-budget delivery; solid understanding of day-to-day execution of business & IT tasks.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

What Will Set You Apart

• 2-4 years of project management with emphasis on business process modeling experience preferred.
• 7+ years with SAP Finance and controlling module.
• Master's Degree or MBA.
• Team building & leadership experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of IT frameworks & best practices, experience with SDLC methodologies, advanced MS Office suite skills, excellent writing & documentation capability.
• Excellent presentation delivery skills, leadership & team building abilities.
• High performance organization leadership competencies: managerial courage & decisiveness, effectively leverage resources, holds self & others accountable, continuous improvement & process focus & drives for results.

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.