The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) has engaged ZRG Partners to lead the search for OUC’s new Chief Transformation & Technology Officer (CTTO). OUC’s next CTTO will be challenged with leading the utility’s strategy design, game changing transformational ESG and sustainability initiatives, emerging technologies, as well as the utility’s broad information technology portfolio. Creative, visionary, and commercially minded, the new CTTO will energize and lead the organization through step-change transitions in the way it optimizes the business, serves its customers, supports new service offerings and revenue streams, and protects the environment. OUC’s Chief Transformation & Technology Officer role presents to stellar candidates an extraordinary opportunity to shape the strategy and technology future for a large, established public power utility through its trajectory of meaningful and sustainable change.

Position Summary

Reporting to General Manager & CEO Clint Bullock, the Chief Transformation & Technology Officer (CTTO) will serve as a catalyst for enterprise-wide innovation and cultural transformation. As CTTO, he/she will have ownership of the organization’s strategic planning process, ensuring its alignment with the business strategy and excellence in operations delivery. Responsible for managing the process of innovation, technology adoption, digital transformation leadership and change management, the CTTO will work with the Senior Leadership Team to drive profitability and value around core electricity and water lines of business.

Key to success in the role will be the CTTO’s ability to embrace, refine, and execute cutting edge initiatives into substantive business programs, designed to build upon OUC’s reputation for reliability and sustainability awareness. As a member of the executive leadership team, the CTTO will serve as a key leader in the overall enterprise business strategy development, bringing current knowledge and future vision by leveraging information and technology in business model design, business process re-engineering, as well as early-stage product and service development. Through leadership and strategic engagement, OUC’s CTTO will help guide the utility through the exploration of the new and different, combining assets, technologies, and ingenuity with an eye toward supporting the region’s economic growth and quality of life.

The CTTO will oversee the management of a team of more than 200 professionals, supported by a senior leadership team comprised of diverse technology skillsets as well as those engaged in strategy, planning, and emerging technologies.

Additionally, the successful candidate will manage annual Operating and Capital budgets of $29.3 million and $22.3 million, respectively.

OUC—The Reliable One is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed through responsible management policies to recruit, hire, promote, train, transfer, compensate, and administer all other personnel actions without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information and any other factor prohibited under applicable federal, state, and local civil rights laws, rules, and regulations.