About

• Description
• Organically Grown Company (OGC), the Northwest’s largest independent distributor of fresh, organic produce, is hiring an IT Delivery Lead. OGC operates 24-7, and the IT department’s responsibility and energy is extraordinary.

• If you have experience developing program logic for new applications, analyzing and/ modifying logic in existing applications, and implementing technological solutions that will progress the strategic and technological goals of the organization, we want to meet you! Our IT Delivery Lead is recognized and appreciated by our customers, coworkers, and community for their role in the organic food supply chain, and we want you to be part of our team!

• Why Work for OGC?
• As an IT Delivery Lead, you play the crucial role of collaboratively working with the IT Department to provide application software development services and technical support. Your ability to advise on cross departmental and/or geographic processes and design programs leading to the improvement of the business with the purpose of automation will contribute to the overall success of OGC and the produce trade.

Join our team to earn

• Full-time: Monday - Friday (Flex).
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits for you and your family after 30 days of employment.
• Competitive Wellness Program.
• Generous Paid Time Off program.
• 401(k) retirement program with a 5% company match (capped at $3500 annually)
• Annual profit share - 20% of profits distributed back to employees.
• Free and discounted organic produce.
• $200 annual fitness reimbursement.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Ensure smooth daily operations by making decisions that respect and embrace the company culture and diversity of beliefs, avoids disruptions, and supports an inclusive environment.
• Provide day-to-day direction and oversight to ensure team alignment with project goals, timelines, and quality standards.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and team meetings to monitor progress, address concerns, and support professional development.
• Mentor and coach coworkers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and collaboration.
• Manage resource allocation and workload balancing across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Work with the IT team, business coworkers, and software vendors to design and implement technical solutions.
• Provides knowledge and process leadership in various Enterprise systems (such as ERP, TMS, WMS, HRIS, etcetera) development, usage, and best practices in a mid-size organization.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Coordinate across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring dependencies are identified and managed effectively.
• Track and report on progress, using metrics and dashboards to communicate status, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget, proactively addressing variances and trade-offs.
• Adheres to standards and guidelines established for the corporate network, server and desktop environments.
• Provides back-up support to other members of the IT team as needed to ensure adequate internal customer service.
• Requirements

Qualified candidates will have

• High School Diploma required; Four-year college degree preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of related experience including: managing custom programming projects, supporting or implementing enterprise systems, capturing and proposing solutions based on user requirements, creating software documentation and testing software.
• Demonstrated proficiency with one or more technology domains and the ability to learn and apply new and emerging concepts efficiently.
• Experience leading technical development projects of increasing complexity to successful completion.
• Must be flexible and agile to support OGC business needs and mission and may be assigned projects and/or other duties outside of normal job functions to meet the needs and demands of the business.
• Manage multiple conflicting priorities, deal with ambiguity, and exemplify process management, while maintaining composure and exercising organizational agility.
• Flexible and able to assist and interact with coworkers at all levels.
• Ability to collaborate with team members across all levels of the organization to identify, recommend and deliver improvements in technology solutions and to improve business bottom line.
• Ability to address short-term needs while aligning with the long-term requirements.
• Take initiative to identify and anticipate customer needs and make recommendations for implementation.
• Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment, while remaining composed.

It’s helpful if you bring

• Previous experience supporting the work of an organization operating 24 x 7.
• Previous experience working with an organization with aspirational sustainability goals.
• Familiarity supporting wholesale distribution companies and warehouse environments.
• Previous experience on teams tasked with re-architecting the Enterprise technological environment.
• Previous experience working in the produce industry.
• Experience leveraging and/or developing reusable services and micro-services.
• Understands systems inter-relatedness and data dependencies across the enterprise.
• Familiarity with intermediate to advanced SQL as it relates to application development and systems integrations.
• Familiarity with automated deployment and automated testing.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, hear and converse over the telephone and in person, key data efficiently and accurately frequently on a computer. Requires ability to accurately receive and disseminate information to maintain and enhance relationships. Ability to meet above description of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

• OGC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• At Organically Grown Company (OGC), we are not only proud to an Equal Employment Opportunity --- we celebrate and thrive on the benefit our diverse workforce brings to our employees, customers, and community. OGC encourages individual differences and makes all employment decision based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion or belief, color, national origin, gender identity, LGBT/ sexual orientation, veteran’s status, physical, mental or sensory disability, age, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status or any other applicable characteristics that makes you YOU! OGC will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

• OGC also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.