VP, Business Applications (SAP) POST NUMBER: 414781
About the Company
Our client is a large multi-national manufacturing company looking to hire a VP of Business Applications for a hybrid full time position in Richmond Hill.
About the Opportunity
- This role will be responsible for 3 areas across the enterprise: SAP ERP (transition to S4/Hana already in late stages), custom application development (Microsoft stack .NET/etc.), Data/BI (Microsoft stack Azure/Power Platform/BI/etc.)
- The role is expected to be 50% strategic and 50% tactical managing a total team of 40 distributed staff
- Lots of work is expected on strategy with bringing in new applications to satisfy business needs (dealing with executives), bringing in automation, AI and other new tech
- SAP area will be more execution vs strategy as the multi-year plan is already in place
- The CIO would like a metrics-driven leader, and a possible successor to himself in a few years
- Manufacturing industry exposure would be a bonus (or any other related industry where user base is less tech-literate)
About You
- Proven progressive strategic Technology leadership positions in the Applications area (including budgeting, risk management, KPI-driven management, vendor management/selection, etc.) culminating in 5 years in a VP role
- Technology-related degree, 20 years of work experience
- Experience managing enterprise level large SAP environments (S4/Hana implementation experience is a plus) including Manufacturing/Supply Chain modules/processes
- Experience managing custom application development teams (Microsoft stack a plus)
- Experience managing Data/BI enterprise-grade environments (including data governance)
- Experience working in large multi-national organizations with large distributed teams
- Manufacturing/Supply Chain industry experience
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Ability to commute to Richmond Hill office 3 days/week
- Ability to travel to US/Europe (rare)
Compensation range
$200,000 – $300,000 CAD
How to Apply
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