Sr. Manager, ERP

Description

• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert.
• Regularly work with the team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps.
• Assign resources, manage workloads, and prioritize initiatives to meet corporate objectives.
• Formulates, tests and refining assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, and HR leadership to translate business needs into scalable ERP solutions.
• Drive ERP modernization initiatives, including integrations with best-of-breed applications and cloud-based tools.
• Coordinate with business relationship managers to ensure the business users are satisfied with the current service levels and application functionality.
• Monitors effectiveness of current business practices and identifies areas for improvement/innovation. Has exceptional skills and expertise of business processes, and IT systems related to application security.
• Proactively address product development issues and escalate to senior leadership when necessary.
• Manage and direct the activities of up to 4 resources (i.e., specific application support managers.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing ERP team of Business Analysts, Developers, and Functional Leads.
• Ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporates them into release planning.
• Lead the product development team, ensuring successful delivery of roadmap releases and features while achieving product goals and KPIs.
• Ensure compliance with technical best practices, standards and policies.
• Conduct discovery sessions with internal stakeholders, validating opportunities and solutions to define and manage the product roadmap.
• Develop and maintain the ERP roadmap in alignment with business goals and enterprise architecture standards.
• Champion continuous improvement, standardization, and automation of business processes. Direct the direction of features for design systems and break down the product vision into continuous value delivery.
• Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and values associated with features and enhancements.
• Inform and support the product portfolio vision and ensure its alignment with overall business strategies and objectives.
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute product strategy; provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience.
• Manage resource pipelines to ensure timely delivery and proper support for products and services within the portfolio.
• Actively Manage business relationships with respectful candor and hold the line on product mindset and be culture change agent.
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
• Foster a collaborative culture focused on innovation, accountability, and professional growth. Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, User Experience Designers, etc.) to drive value and collectively identify and resolve impediments.

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills, leading research, analysis, and data insights to inform decisions.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent certified practical experience; secondary degree preferred (e.g., masters, PhD).
• 8+ years of progressive experience with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (E1) including configuration, development, and support.
• Demonstrate ability to plan, meet deadlines, and manage competing priorities. Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic work environment.
• Exhibits strong facilitation and communication skills both written and oral and interacts with technical and business personnel.
• Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, stakeholders, associates, etc.) and in all formats the product's long-term strategy which is used to prioritize short-term action.)
• Oracle JD Edwards Certifications
• Knowledge of integration frameworks, security, and data governance.
• Lean Six Sigma, PMP, ITIL, or similar credentials Experience driving product roadmap, design and execute against leaderships overall strategy.
• Hands-on experience with core modules such as Financials, Procurement, Inventory, Job Cost, Manufacturing, and HR/Payroll.
• Proven success leading JDE upgrades (e.g., from 9.1 to 9.2), integrations, or modernization initiatives.
• Experience with complementary systems such as Workday, Power BI, or DSI Mobile Apps preferred.
• Ability to deliver results in a complex, matrixed environment, driving alignment across multiple stakeholders, break down complex problems, and drive solutioning.
• 7+ years progressive experience concurrent with 3+ years in technical product management and 1+ years in leading product teams.
• Deep understanding of JDE E1 architecture, CNC administration, and Orchestrator Studio.
• Strong communication skills with proven experience handling collaboration across executives and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate ability to conduct high level needs analysis and produce reporting and data analysis.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance