Director, Enterprise Applications

Position Summary

The Director of Enterprise Applications for Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) is responsible for the strategy delivery and operational excellence of the companys enterprise applications landscape supporting a $3 billion global manufacturing organization. This role oversees multiple ERP platforms including Oracle (EBS & Fusion Cloud) along with multiple other enterprise systems.

The Director will lead a geographically distributed team and partner closely with business leaders across Finance Supply Chain Manufacturing and Sales to ensure enterprise applications enable scalable growth operational efficiency and data-driven decision making.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

Enterprise Applications Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the global enterprise applications strategy aligned with business objectives and IT roadmap.
• Provide leadership and governance across a complex multi-ERP environment ensuring stability scalability and modernization.
• Lead ERP rationalization efforts upgrades migrations and integration strategies as the business evolves.
• Develop a detailed plan and portfolio of projects with the business functions and regions. Deliver solutions within agreed timeframes and budgets set forth in the plan.

ERP Platform Ownership

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Oracle ERP and multiple other enterprise platforms including roadmap planning enhancements upgrades and support.
• Ensure ERP solutions effectively support global manufacturing operations finance supply chain procurement and order-to-cash processes meeting the needs of and creating value for the business.
• Partner with Global Process Owners (GPOs) to ensure best practice business processes and standards are defined implemented and maintained.
• Oversee system integrations data consistency and master data governance across platforms.
• Partner with Finance Supply Chain and Sales functions to implement and support HEMs data and analytics strategy leveraging technology solutions including Oracle EPM and FDI.
• Lifecycle management of Oracle Applications and satellite/supporting systems (including integrations with eInvoicing RFSmart Apro Prometheus) through third party support agreements.
• Experience managing outsourced IT Application Management Services (AMS) relationships.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure high availability performance security and compliance of enterprise applications in collaboration with the IT Infrastructure & Operations team
• Establish and monitor KPIs SLAs and service delivery metrics for internal teams and external vendors.
• Drive continuous improvement in application support incident management and change management.

People & Vendor Management

• Lead mentor and develop a global team of application managers analysts developers and architects.
• Manage relationships with system integrators software vendors and managed service providers.
• Oversee application budgets licensing and vendor contracts to optimize cost value and compliance.

Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders translating business needs into scalable application solutions.
• Partner with Finance Supply Chain Operations and Manufacturing leadership on major initiatives such as plant expansions M&A integrations and digital transformation.
• Support global process standardization while enabling regional flexibility where required.

Specialized/Technical Knowledge or Required Skills

Required

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Business or related field.
• 10 years of experience in enterprise applications leadership roles; Oracle Fusion Cloud experience highly desired.
• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience managing other Directors/Managers in conjunction with 3rd-party service providers in a global context.
• Deep hands-on experience with multiple ERP platforms including Oracle Infor SAP etc.
• Strong understanding of global manufacturing supply chain and financial processes.
• Strong project management skills with experience managing large-scale ERP implementations upgrades or transformations.
• Proven experience leading global cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.
• Success in leveraging traditional IT best practices such as ITIL PMBOK or similar as well as waterfall and agile concepts.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing strategic relationships.
• Ability to balance business priorities with organizational capacity and budget constraints yet advocate for targeted investments where needed.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams of analysts and developers in close partnership with Global Process Owners and departmental leadership driving process standardization and ensuring the ERP platform effectively supports evolving business requirements.

Preferred

• Masters degree or MBA.
• Experience in a multi-ERP or post-merger environment.
• Familiarity with cloud ERP integrations and modern enterprise architecture.

• Experience leading or supporting ERP implementations within B2B process manufacturing and/or highly regulated industries including alignment with quality management systems (QMS) regulatory compliance requirements and end-to-end operational processes.
• Familiarity with the interoperability and integration of eCommerce Self-Service Portals and Customer Relationship Management platforms with enterprise ERP.