IT Director, North America & Global M365 Coach

We are seeking an IT Director North America & Global M365 Coach to lead regional IT delivery while shaping Microsoft 365 as a secure, scalable, and value-creating collaboration platform for GPT.

The role partners closely with business leaders to understand priorities, simplify work, enable innovation, and translate technology into measurable business outcomes. It combines regional IT leadership with global M365 coaching, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement.

This person must be self-driven, hands-on, curious, and ready to help transform IT into a future-ready, business partner that embraces modern IT.

Your Impact

• Strategic Planning, Leadership & IT Transformation

• Develop and execute IT strategy aligned to business priorities and measurable value creation.

• Transform IT into a future-ready, business-facing function that enables AI, automation, modern collaboration, and new digital ways of working.

• Lead through a player-coach model: set direction, make day-to-day decisions, resolve ambiguity, and coach through expertise, ownership, and results.

• Lead, mentor, and develop IT teams with a strong focus on accountability, learning, service quality, and proactive ownership.

• IT Infrastructure & Operations

• Oversee regional IT systems, infrastructure, networks, workplace technology, and service delivery.

• Ensure reliable, secure, and efficient IT operations with clear ownership, standards, and continuous improvement.

• Partnering with Cybersecurity & Compliance

• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, infrastructure, and application teams to balance enablement, usability, governance, and control.

• Ensure applicable IT policies, standards, and regulatory requirements are understood and embedded into daily operations.

• Budgeting & Vendor Management

• Manage North American IT budget, and technology investments.

• Evaluate IT investments based on business need, risk, cost, and scalability.

• Hold partners accountable for quality, delivery, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.

• Business Partnership, Value Creation & Enablement

• Build trusted partnerships with business leaders to understand priorities, pain points, and value opportunities.

• Translate business needs into practical roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.

• Brings a natural business-process mindset; understanding how applications enable, simplify, and improve processes. Experience with ERP's is a must.

• Drive improvements that increase productivity, simplify work, improve user experience, and create sustainable business value.

• Global Microsoft 365 Coach Responsibilities

• Act as GPT's global M365 Coach, guiding Microsoft 365 as a secure, scalable, and value-creating collaboration platform.

• Set and improve global standards, governance, lifecycle management, adoption practices, support models, and ways of working.

• Coach IT and business users on effective and responsible use of Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Power Platform, Copilot, and related capabilities.

• Enable distributed ownership by giving the business knowledge, guardrails, and support to use M365 confidently and responsibly.

Your Experience And Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• 15+ years of relevant business experience, including significant IT leadership responsibility.
• Strong experience in IT with ERP/business applications
• Proven track record in transforming IT
• Experience with infrastructure, workplace technology, cloud services, cybersecurity, and vendor management.
• Proven ability to partner with business leaders and translate technology capabilities into business value.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 at enterprise scale, including adoption, governance, security, support, and continuous improvement.
• Self-driven learning mindset with the ability to embrace AI-enabled productivity, automation, collaboration platforms, and distributed operating models.
• Strong communication, decision-making, problem-solving, project management, and stakeholder management skills.

Your Compensation And Benefits Expected annual salary for this role will be $150,000 - $200,000, plus eligible for an annual bonus. This is dependent upon job related knowledge, experience, and skills.

Benefits will include the ability to elect health care and wellness plans, dental and vision plans, flexible and virtual work options (where available), 401(k) Savings Plan with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, health savings and flexible spending accounts, reimbursement for continuing education, life insurance, and other supplemental insurance plans.

Your Workplace and Travel You will be working Monday through Thursday in office in Assumption, IL, with Friday as a flex day (in office or remote).

We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now! Grain & Protein Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

• GPT Purpose: Feeding the World Better, through high quality grain and responsibly raised protein
• GPT Mission: Make Farmers and Agribusiness Managers more productive and more profitable
• GPT Culture: Winning Values and Winning Behaviors that nurtures a "Winners Win" culture of excellence
• GPT Approach: Achieve balanced and sustainable success for Employees, Customers, and OwnersGrain & Protein Technologies is a leading global designer, manufacturer, and marketer of reliable, durable, and innovative equipment solutions for grain, seed, poultry, egg, and swine production. Generating $1.1 billion in annual revenue, the Company serves farmers and agribusiness managers in over 100 countries and currently operates 19 manufacturing facilities across 5 continents, employing more than 3600 people.

The Company goes to market with its strong portfolio of industry leading brands - GSI, Cumberland, AP, Tecno, Cimbria, Aerotech, Reventa, and Euroemme. With its Company Purpose of "Feeding the World Better", Grain & Protein Technologies emphasizes advancing smart technologies and offering innovative technical solutions to make farmers and agribusiness managers more productive and profitable in a sustainable way.

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