Vice President of Technology

Bloomington, MN
6400 W 105th St
Bloomington, MN 55438, USA

• Pay or shift range: $ USD to $ USD
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We are seeking candidates with the ability to work on-site at the Bloomington Q-Central office for this hybrid role.

The VP of Technology is a forward-thinking, enterprise-minded leader responsible for shaping and executing QBP’s technology and digital strategy. In this role, you will modernize core systems, champion innovation, strengthen operational resilience, and develop a high-performing IT organization that partners deeply with the business. As a senior leader, this position plays a critical role in ensuring that technology fuels growth, operational excellence, and long-term competitiveness, empowering QBP to achieve its business goals.

• Establish and drive a multi-year technology and digital roadmap that supports growth and operational efficiency.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans with clear objectives, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Balance short-term operational priorities with long-term initiatives and establish KPIs to track success.
• Establish and maintain a formal enterprise technology prioritization framework that clarifies sequencing, capacity constraints, and decision rights across initiatives.
• Conduct regular roadmap reviews with executive leadership to reassess urgency, re-prioritize work as needed, and ensure alignment to evolving business objectives.

• Serve as a trusted advisor, translating technology capabilities into business value.
• Prioritize initiatives with the greatest impact on revenue, market share, and efficiency.
• Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and rationale transparently, setting clear boundaries and saying no when initiatives do not align with strategy, while providing alternatives.
• Advocate for strategic technology investments critical to growth and sustainability.
• Implement a structured intake and governance process to ensure technology requests are evaluated consistently against enterprise priorities, capacity, and strategic impact.
• Create shared accountability models with business leaders for initiative sponsorship, value realization, and post-implementation outcomes.
• Lead modernization of ERP, e-commerce, Business Intelligence, Warehouse Management, and other enterprise systems.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies (AI, analytics, automation) to enhance capabilities.
• Promote a culture of innovation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and communicate a clear build vs. buy perspective for technology solutions, balancing strategic priorities, cost, scalability, and risks.
• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards and integration principles to reduce system redundancy, prevent unnecessary customization, and manage long-term technical debt.

• Ensure IT systems and processes are reliable, scalable, and secure.
• Manage technical debt, redundancy, and capacity constraints to reduce operational risk.
• Establish clear service level agreements (SLAs), incident escalation protocols, and executive visibility into operational performance and risk metrics.
• Oversee IT governance, IT Regulatory Compliance (e.g. PCI and others as identified), and enterprise security initiatives.
• Provide guidance on enterprise architecture, platform, and integration structures to support scalable, sustainable technology decisions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the IT leadership team, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
• Empower IT leaders to make decisions within their areas while maintaining alignment with strategic priorities.
• Maintain organizational…