The Applications Director will provide guidance to the organization in establishing an overall long-term plan and framework for SAP, PLM, and HighJump which ensures most effective use in enhancing business capability and performance.
Essential Functions of this Role:
- Manage a team of programmers, analysts, and support personnel
- Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of SAP, PLM, and HighJump solutions through analysis, recommendation design, testing and implementation
- Provide leadership in data governance and develop standards and processes to ensure our data integrity
- Develop a productive framework for consistent training of the applications business community
- Provide leadership and high value by applying business and technical knowledge
- Work with Business Application users including FI/CO, MM, SD, PI, BW, BOBJ to implement best practices
- Provide solutions in a timely and effective manner
- Provide technical expertise in identification, design configuration testing and debugging issues and manage unit, integration and user acceptance testing
Competencies:
- Strong SAP technical background
- Strategic Vision
- Communication Proficiency
- Strong organization skills and time management
- Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
- Working knowledge of various programming environments
- Demonstrates the ability to assimilate new capabilities of SAP products
- Ability to work independently and effectively in a team
- Follows-through and meets deadlines on all assignments independently
- Ability to influence key stakeholders
- Ability to identify, manage, and lead business improvement projects
- Critical thinking and problem-solving ability while synthesizing findings from analysis and drawing conclusions
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Direct reports consist of programmers, analysts, and support personnel
Work Environment:
- This job generally operates in a professional office environment.
- Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment
- Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
Travel: Limited