Director, ERP Platforms

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a platform strategy aligned with overall strategic ambitions and prioritization of the business.
• Own and manage the ongoing relationship with existing and potential technology partners and vendors relating to your suite of platform(s).
• Partner with the business and other team members to capture, understand and solution any additional functional requirements or enhancements.
• Identify and lead execution of process improvement or automation opportunities across the organisation in general and across your platform portfolio in particular.
• Provide end to end oversight of initiatives, with accountability for planning and implementation through to configuration including project management, support and issue management.
• Lead the market research and recommendation of new platforms, software and training, ensuring business cases are built to warrant investment.

Requirements

• 12+ years experience managing or influencing technical staff, transformation, and/or significant business as usual change projects.
• Proven success in ERP design, strategy, and defining delivery best practices and linking Business Platforms with the objectives of the Brambles business.
• Strong experience with Finance, Pricing & Invoicing, Inventory Management, and back-office business processes.
• Experience with cradle to grave support, implementation, and delivery of ERP applications.
• Experience managing SaaS applications and partners including delivery capacity.
• Experience migrating to new and migrating off existing ERP platforms required (e.g. SAP, tax and reporting, niche packaged applications, etc).
• Experience with custom ERP applications supporting business requirements utilizing cloud native services (e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Strong experience leading remote, cross-functional, matrixed teams across multiple continents within a multi-partner ecosystem that deliver successful outcomes.
• Proven track record of building relationships and thought leadership influencing at senior management/executive-level within large organisations and of building and managing excellent business-wide relationships at all levels of an organisation.
• Functional understanding of application financial management, business case development, and annual budget preparation.
• Advanced interpersonal communications, with strong executive focused (and multi-audience) presentational creation and design skills.

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Hard Skills

• ERP design
• ERP strategy
• process improvement
• automation
• project management
• SaaS applications
• cloud native services
• finance management
• inventory management
• business case development

Soft Skills

• relationship building
• thought leadership
• executive communication
• cross-functional team leadership
• interpersonal communication
• presentation skills
• influencing skills
• organizational skills
• problem-solving
• stakeholder management

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