Position Title: Vice President, IT Infrastructure
Location: Southeastern Wisconsin
Position Summary:
Our client is a privately held, family-owned distributor of business, industrial, and operational supplies,
known across its industry for the speed, breadth, and reliability of its fulfillment operations. It is a
multibillion-dollar organization with a large, geographically distributed workforce and a long-standing
reputation as one of the most stable and respected employers in its region.
What sets this organization apart technologically is rare: rather than running on a purchased ERP
platform, its core systems are almost entirely custom-built and maintained in-house, giving its
technology teams genuine ownership over architecture, code, and infrastructure design. The company
operates its own data centers end-to-end - network, compute, storage, power, and cooling -
supporting a mission-critical, always-on business. IT is not treated as a cost center here; it sits at the
center of how the business runs.
This is a succession-planned Vice President, IT Infrastructure opportunity. The incoming leader will
step into the title and full scope of the role from day one, while the current VP remains on hand for a
defined transition period as an advisor and mentor - sharing institutional knowledge without retaining
direct reports. It is a rare chance to inherit a large, well-resourced infrastructure organization, build on a
strong foundation, and shape its next chapter.
Responsibilities:
• Defines and executes an enterprise infrastructure strategy aligned to business objectives,
long-term growth, and risk tolerance• Leads infrastructure strategy and operations across a large, complex, multi-site enterprise
environment supporting mission-critical business operations
• Drives infrastructure modernization initiatives from design to retirement, including automation and
platform rationalization, to improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Provides executive-level reporting on health, risk, performance, and investment tradeoffs related to
infrastructure
• Partners closely with Application Development, Security, Facilities, and business leaders to ensure
infrastructure enables - not constrains - business outcomes
• Oversees infrastructure technologies and practices in support of enterprise security policies
• Ensures infrastructure teams follow approved risk, access, and operational controls
• Oversees preparation and management of the annual Infrastructure Capital Planning process
• Balances cost optimization with resiliency, scalability, and service quality
• Owns strategic relationships with key infrastructure vendors, partners, and service providers
• Oversees capacity planning and usage reporting for data, voice, server, storage, and network
systems
• Ensures high-quality service delivery through mature service management practices, measurable
SLAs, and continuous improvement of availability, performance, and end-user experience
• Leads a team of internal professionals and external service providers responsible for consistent
operational delivery, support, and availability
• Builds a high-performing leadership team, develops succession plans, and fosters a culture of
accountability, engineering discipline, and continuous improvement
• Establishes expectations around engineering discipline, documentation, and best-practice
methodologies
Skills & Requirements
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree
• 15+ years of infrastructure leadership experience in a large, complex enterprise environment
• Experience managing a large-scale data center
• Strong track record of collaborating to align technology strategy with business goals
• Proven success leading mission-critical infrastructure operations across multiple sites
• Experience operating in an on-premises, non-cloud-reliant enterprise environment strongly
preferred
• Experience within a custom-built or non-ERP-dependent technology environment is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and grow a leadership bench of future technology leaders
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