Information Technology Director
Kroeker Farms is one of Canada’s leading producers and suppliers of conventional and organic table potatoes. We take pride in our progressive approach to land stewardship, innovation, and quality. Our success is due to our passionate, driven People who work toward a common goal: to produce the highest quality potatoes in North America.
Healthy Food. Healthy World. is our vision. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, deliver on their commitments, are collaborative team players, and are always in search of a better way.
As Information Technology Director, you’ll take a leading role in financial operations, driving process improvements, and ensuring compliance across the Kroeker Farms group of companies. This is a high-impact position within a fast-growing organization, offering significant opportunity for growth, innovation, and the chance to help shape the future of our finance function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a forward-looking IT strategy aligned with organizational objectives.
- Build, lead and mentor a high-performing team of IT professionals capable of delivering on strategic initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, excellence and continuous improvement.
- Lead the team that manages the organization’s IT infrastructure, including enterprise networks, servers, databases, firewalls, access points, sensor and control systems software systems and cloud services to ensure reliability, scalability, and safeguarding of digital assets to support business operations.
- Oversee the design, development, and deployment of custom software solutions to support operational and strategic goals.
- Govern external relationships with all IT service providers and consultants, ensuring quality of service and effectiveness.
- Drive the savvy adoption of innovative technologies
- Facilitate training as needed so that our users understand how to best use the systems we provide.
We’re Looking For:
- An optimistic person who sees solutions and improvement opportunities in every situation.
- Excellent communication skills with professional approach to customer service.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Minimum 5–10 years of progressive IT leadership experience.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, PMP, or Microsoft and AWS are an asset.
- Proven success in managing enterprise-level infrastructure and cybersecurity programs and architect and scale across multiple companies.
- Strong vision and understanding of building ERP systems and integrated applications in a cloud-based development environment and using APIs.
- Proficiency in software development languages and frameworks is an asset.
- Experience in AI strategy development and implementation.
- Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage projects and change effectively.
- Experience with cyber security, information retention, and network management.
This is a full-time position, located at our Head Office in Winkler, MB.
We are a family/employee-owned business – our people are our greatest investment and strength. We offer a competitive wage & benefits package, group retirement, and a profit-sharing plan.
If you’re interested in a rewarding career with a progressive company, please submit your resume to careers@kroekers.com. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.