IT Director

• Serve as the primary IT business partner for NAIP building strong relationships with functional and operational leaders to align technology solutions with business priorities.
• Lead the NAIP business applications portfolio including QAD Solomon and related systems ensuring reliable support maintenance enhancement delivery and business value realization.
• Manage application demand intake prioritization and execution balancing business needs resource capacity budgets and enterprise technology standards.
• Develop and execute the NAIP ERP modernization roadmap including ERP consolidation migration rationalization and transformation initiatives.
• Partner with enterprise application strategy leaders to ensure NAIP solutions align with corporate architecture platform standards governance and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Evaluate business processes and system capabilities to identify opportunities for standardization optimization automation analytics and AI-enabled improvements.
• Lead application-related projects and enhancements including requirements gathering solution design testing deployment change management and post-implementation support.
• Provide leadership for application support and issue resolution ensuring timely escalation root-cause analysis communication and continuous service improvement.
• Coordinate cross-functional IT activities with Infrastructure Security Service Desk Data/BI and Enterprise Applications teams to deliver integrated and supportable solutions.
• Manage vendor and third-party partner relationships overseeing performance service delivery project execution and value realization.
• Lead coach and develop application and business analyst teams fostering accountability knowledge sharing succession planning and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance security risk management SDLC change management and audit requirements.
• Communicate technology strategies project outcomes risks and recommendations to business and IT leadership translating technical concepts into clear business impacts and decisions.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience leading or substantially contributing to ERP migrations consolidations rationalization or modernization initiatives is required.
• Experience with ERP roadmaps business process harmonization data migration integration planning testing cutover readiness and change management is required.
• Demonstrated ability to operate within a matrixed governance model and collaborate effectively with enterprise application strategy leaders business stakeholders and transformation teams.
• Experience working with manufacturing ERP platforms such as QAD Solomon SAP Oracle Microsoft Dynamics Infor Epicor JD Edwards or similar solutions is strongly preferred.
• 10 years of experience in IT business applications ERP support business analysis or related technology leadership roles.
• 5 years of leadership experience managing application teams business analysts vendors projects or business-facing technology functions.
• Experience supporting ERP or business application portfolios in manufacturing industrial distribution finance plant operations or customer service environments.
• Strong business acumen and ability to partner with executives functional leaders operational teams IT peers vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with project delivery requirements definition testing release management SDLC discipline vendor management SLAs KPIs contract inputs and cost/value discussions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics into clear business terms prioritize competing demands and make practical tradeoff recommendations.
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled business capabilities including how AI automation and analytics can be applied responsibly to improve business processes decision-making and user productivity.
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Business Supply Chain Finance Engineering or a related field preferred or equivalent experience.