Group Platform Manager- SDFC

IDEX


Job Location:

Cedar Falls, IA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 6 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

If youre looking for a special place to build or grow your career youve found it. Whether youre an experienced professional a recent college graduate or somewhere in between IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering marketing sales supply chain operations HR finance and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe chances are we have something special for you.

About the Role

IDEXs Severe Duty Flow Control (SDFC) segment operates four business units Viking Pump Warren Rupp Abel and Richter. Each serves industrial customers through B2B channels. Together they are standardizing on SAP Commerce Cloud as the group-level digital platform for customer-facing commerce product catalogs and channel-partner portals.

The Group Platform Manager owns making that platform work at scale. You set the architecture UX standards vendor governance and integration patterns that all nine BUs build on. You partner with business-unit digital leaders who own commercial outcomes SDFC Digital owns the how business units own the what.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

SAP Commerce Cloud Ownership

  • Own SAP Commerce Cloud configuration deployment and operational health across all SDFC BUs.

  • Codify an existing B2B and D2C configuration as the SDFC template; onboard Tier 2 and Tier 3 BUs to that template.

  • Manage the multi-BU shared instance model catalog separation role-based access BU-specific pricing and merchandising logic.

  • Partner with BU digital leaders on their roadmaps; translate requests into governed platform capabilities.

Platform Architecture & Integration

  • Own integration standards between SAP Commerce Cloud and the rest of the IDEX stack JDE (ERP) Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) Brandfolder (DAM) analytics authentication.

  • Coordinate with the JDE Integration Specialist to ensure product pricing and order data flows are clean monitored and recoverable.

  • Define the PIM strategy (Salsify) and lead its adoption as the product-data orchestration layer in Phase 23.

  • Set release governance change control testing standards rollback paths so BUs know what to expect and when.

UX Standards & Design Systems

  • Publish and maintain the SDFC design system color palette typography component library layout patterns.

  • Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) are met across all Commerce Cloud properties.

  • Prevent redundant UI development BUs build on shared components rather than reinventing wheels.

  • Work with BU web managers to ensure their front-end implementations reference the design system.

Vendor Pod Management

  • Manage relationships with onshore and offshore development pods under defined SOWs and SLAs.

  • Run monthly vendor scorecards cost quality throughput adherence to SDFC standards.

  • Hold vendors accountable to architecture UX and release standards; escalate underperformance.

  • Track cost-to-deliver per feature and defect so investment is defensible and adjustable.

Data Governance

  • Own product data quality and flow across the stack JDE as source of truth Commerce Cloud as channel catalog Brandfolder as asset repository.

  • Monitor integration health; surface data-quality issues before they hit customers.

  • Define data governance policies BUs operate within who owns what how changes propagate what gets audited.

What Youll Bring

Education and Experience

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent professional experience required.

  • 5 years managing enterprise commerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud Salesforce Commerce Adobe Commerce or equivalent).

  • Hands-on experience with multi-tenant or multi-instance B2B commerce deployments serving multiple business units or brands.

  • Deep knowledge of ERP integrations (JDE preferred; SAP Oracle NetSuite acceptable) product pricing inventory order sync.

  • Experience with DAM platforms (Brandfolder Bynder or equivalent) and PIM platforms (Salsify Akeneo inRiver preferred).

  • Track record managing onshore and offshore development vendors under SOWs and SLAs.

  • Comfort setting UX and accessibility standards and holding teams accountable to them.

Capabilities

  • Architecturally rigorous you think in systems not features.

  • Strong technical communicator credible with both BU commercial leaders and offshore dev pods.

  • Governance-minded you set guardrails that enable autonomy rather than creating bottlenecks.

  • Vendor manager you hold vendors accountable while keeping relationships productive.

  • Quality-focused you instrument what matters and know your numbers (uptime error rates MTTR cost per feature).

  • Pragmatic you ship incrementally rather than waiting for perfect.

Tools & Technical Skills

  • SAP Commerce Cloud (formerly Hybris) configuration catalog management B2B/B2C setup.

  • JD Edwards or equivalent ERP integration architecture and data sync.

  • APIs and middleware REST webhooks orchestration layers.

  • Jira Azure DevOps or similar work-management and release tools.

  • Exposure to Brandfolder Salsify and Microsoft Dynamics is ideal.

Work Environment Requirements

  • Travel up to 10% as needed.

  • Regularly required to talk hear use hands to finder handle or feel and sit for extended periods of time.

  • Ability to occasionally lift up to 40 pounds.

  • Must have good vision color vision and the ability to focus.

  • Occasionally required to stand walk and reach with hands and arms.

  • Certain positions with IDEX Corporation and its business units require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be U.S. Persons as defined in these regulations. Generally a U.S. Person is a U.S. citizen U.S. national lawful permanent resident or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people our culture and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed genetic information sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status age national origin disability protected veteran status or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal state or local laws.

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