Group Manager: Enterprise Resource Planning (Durban North) at Aspen Pharma Group

JOB PURPOSE

• Strategic and Tactical role in the Digital Technology organisation and is accountable for the design and communication of high- level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated ERP solutions that meet current and future business needs. In addition to technology components, ERP architecture encompasses changes to service components and process. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, ERP solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices (including quality and security) and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Leads the development of organisational systems integration and build capabilities for ERP, Extended functionaliaty and integrated systems
• Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration and build.
• Provides resources to ensure systems integration and build can operate effectively and ensures adoption and adherence to policies and standards.
• Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
• Develops organisational capabilities, processes and procedures for automation and continuous integration of build, packaging, testing, security and deployment
• Ensure security and privacy requirements are an essential part of systems integration and build
• Test, validate and sign off of integration and build to satisfy requirements, architectures and design
• Keep stakeholders informed and providing feedback into risk management processes
• Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of ERP and related solution architecture components.
• Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Define the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — include changes to services, process, organisation, and operating models as well as technology.
• Ensure that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices
• Develops roadmaps and manage and communicate the implementation thereof
• Act as Platform Owner and Solution Architect for various ERP solutions and solution components.
• Provides guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.
• Leads the creation and review of a systems capability strategy that meets the strategic requirements of the business.
• Works with key stakeholders and roles in interpreting business goals and drivers
• Ensures the buy-in of all key stakeholders.
• Captures and prioritises market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, and identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Develops and presents business cases for approval, funding and prioritisation of high-level initiatives.
• Contributes to creating and reviewing a systems capability strategy which meets the business's strategic requirements.
• Determines requirements and specifies effective business processes, through improvements in technology, information or data practices, organisation, roles, procedures and equipment.

Requirements
Education:

• Matric / Grade 12
• B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
• Experience and sound knowledge of business processes, quality management and enterprise solution design practices and improvement practices
• 10+ years’ experience managing customer relationships in an operational and global services and automation in a large complex/matrix global organisation
• 10+ years’ experience leading and influencing customers and matching needs to solutions
• Advanced experience in SAP, SuccessFactors, BTP and other extended ERP solutions 
• Experience with applications that integrates with ERP e.g. Tax solutions and Integrated Business Planning

Certifications: 

• Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, GxP, ISO 9000)
• Business Process Management Methodology (i.e., BPM, SDLC, ITIL, DevOps, Agile, COBIT)

Skills and Attributes:

• Innovation
• Visioning
• Strategic planning
• Global thinking
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Teamwork
• Initiative
• Results oriented
• Systems thinking
• Focused
• Problem-solving and good judgment
• Responsibility and accountability
• Cooperation
• Proactive
• Resilience
• Active listening skills
• Presentation skills
• Meeting facilitation
• Organisational awareness
• Influence skills
• Pragmatic
• Empathy