Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
Join a team of more than 25,000 team members, comprised of our home office and over 215 clubs and 3 distribution centers in 17 statesWe’re committed to delivering value and convenience to our members, helping them save every day on everything they need for their family and homeBj’s wholesale club offers a collaborative, team-oriented environment where all team members can learn, grow and excel.
The director it sap will focus on the accounting, finance, and merchandising operations business functions and the systems supporting those functionsThis role will lead a team in the implementation and care of our sap ecc solution and supporting modules (fi, pi, fiori, solman, portal, posdm, car, pmr, mdm etc.)You will be responsible for leading team members and actively directing in business requirements definition, functional design, configuration, testing, and implementationYou will partner with our managed service partners to enable service delivery, development, and quality capabilities for all bj’s wholesale club sap solutionsYou will help drive it strategy in the use of sap ecc and its migration to s/4 hana.
This is a senior level management role in systems analysis and application development with overall responsibility for department decisions and management; providing strategic direction, mentoring, and coaching of management and senior technical staff; and accountability for it functional/departmental results within the sap practice.
Reports to vp software engineering, who leads bj’s corporate and back office solutions functionBased in our westborough, ma corporate office.
Responsibilities
Understands functionality of multiple sap modules and how the modules and capabilities work together to complete an end-to-end process.
Responsible for the full systems development life cycle management of programs and key projects.
Provides direction for technical and business engagement resources.
Actively participates in long-range strategy planning to address complex business issues, provides leadership to cross-functional teams.
Serves as the primary point of contact from project/program inception to delivery.
Competencies
Can think across the enterprise; can discuss multiple aspects and impacts of issues and project them into the future.
Ability to partner with stakeholders to develop business cases, architecture and deployment roadmaps focused on sap solutions to deliver thoughtful it solutions to customer business.
Clearly communicates team member goals, performance and the results to be achieved.
Keeps people informed about what needs to be done considering changes in the organization, business situation, etc.
Anticipates roadblocks and proactively address issues before they impact business resultsEnsure relevant programs/projects are on track, including budget, timeline, and scope.
Education and experience
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, or other related fieldOr equivalent work experience.
Has 10 to 15 years of it and retail business/industry work experience, with at least 5 years of leadership experience in managing multiple, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing executive & senior level management and key stakeholders.
Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes.
Extensive experience and understanding of accounting/finance functionality of sap.
Experience with retail, merchandising operations and their integration with supply chain processes within sap car, pmr, pricing, posdm, master data.
Experience in s/4 hana implementation / system conversion from ecc / landscape transformation.
Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders from executive & senior business leaders, vendor partners and it staff.
Exemplarily communications skills; able to articulate complex technical topics for non-technical audiences.
Must understand business direction, information technology trends and current it capabilities to create an integrated strategy that is convincing, realistic, and attainable.
