Senior Manager, our SAP, is an IT leadership position, reporting to our CIO, responsible for leading and mentoring a talented group of analysts, developers and testers to deliver business solutions on the current ECC and Future S4HANA SAP platforms. This is a customer-facing role that requires strong leadership skills, a sound technical foundation, a breadth of functional knowledge & the ability to work across multiple teams within IT, as well as business units to realize the goals of ERP-specific projects on our roadmap. It is a challenging position that requires excellent business and technical know-how as well as strong leadership skills.
Key Responsibilities
Drive the strategic roadmap for SAP.
Get influence and sponsorship for the strategic roadmap.
Lead a Global SAP group consisting of a talented team of system analysts, developers, and testers.
Attain a strong knowledge of industry business models and processes.
Deliver quality and scalable solutions that meet the needs of our digital transformation.
Manage resources, plan deliverables/milestones, and oversee the project deliverables with the goal of realizing our roadmap and release plan.
Research current trends, along with emerging technologies in related areas and provide insight and analysis on how they may positively or negatively impact the enterprise.
Work with project managers and IT lead to provide effort estimation towards future programs and projects.
Develop and maintain a governance model and safeguarding to enable releases and changes across multiple line of business.
Requirements: Exemplary people leadership skills, with a strong focus on mentoring and leading your team through change. Strong belief in trust and openness as a foundation for engaging with your team and peers.
Excellent solution architectural skills, creating scalable integration layers between SAP and other systems (Manufacturing, Logistics and Salesforce as examples).
Prior experience in managing teams through multiple full lifecycles of global SAP implementations including at least one S4HANA migration.
Must demonstrate a strong track record of delivering results.
Ability to assess customer needs and propose scalable solutions that leverage platform capabilities with maximum configuration & little, to no custom coding required.
Excellent presentation/oral communication skills.
Track record of leading development teams using Agile methodology.
Excellent project management, communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills.
Technical degree in Engineering or equivalent experience required, Masters is a plus.
Minimum 10 years of experience in delivering solutions on the SAP platform.
Minimum 12 years of IT/ engineering management experience.
Substantial knowledge of IT system configuration, change management, and support.
A general understanding of the medical device and life sciences industry is a plus.
This position is open to all candidates.