Thanks for your question. I'm not expert on the topic, but based on what you wrote that person seems to me a typical thinking-judging type - the type I had the most problems with myself. Since they are very hierarchical I would try and win over the person above them, but I have no surefire way to handle such a person. Honestly what I did in my case was that I extracted myself from the person's influence and did things my way. There are work relationships that just simply doesn't work.