Senior Platform Manager - ERP

Be part of something bigger!

As the world and the way people live is changing, we at Bekaert believe it’s our responsibility to contribute to finding new solutions for the future. With a 140+ year old heritage of excellence, innovation, and a future-focused mindset, we strive to create value for our customers and society. We aim to do this through innovative solutions and sustainable practices. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of steel wire transformation and coatings whilst also leveraging our expertise to develop innovative solutions with new materials and services in a safe, smart, and sustainable way. Our focus extends to markets such as new mobility, low-carbon construction, and green energy.

As a dynamic and growing company with over 24 000 employees worldwide, 75 nationalities, a retention rate above 90% and almost € 5.3 billion in combined revenue in 2023, we are looking for someone like you to join our team as we continue to shape a safer, more efficient, and connected world!

I. Purpose

About The Role

To enable Bekaert growth and transformation vision, Bekaert is doing multiple business transformations. In the overall transformation roadmap, ERP transformation is a key enabler. Currently Bekaert is on journey to move its current global SAP system to Next Gen S/4 HANA ERP.

Playing the role of ERP Platform Head, You will collaborate with various stakeholder of Business and ADS (Advance Digital Solution) team and create a vision and be responsible for strategy and execution of ERP Transformation programs. The spectrum of your tasks ranges from capturing the business needs, mapping to the right business application, and getting the solution delivered to Business. Through your entrepreneurial thinking and action, your deep understanding of core business processes, Data and Methods in ERP, you will lead your team successfully and raise the value creation of ERP as Platform at Bekaert to the next level.

II. Roles and Responsibilities

• Define long-term strategy and approach for ERP transformation considering Bekaert business capabilities needs.
• Define SAP S/4 HANA program and other transformation program outcomes, sequencing, and roadmap with clear connection to IT workstreams, building clear path to confident delivery.
• Work collaboratively across business and technology to continually evolve the journey vision, objectives, priorities, and anticipated benefits.
• Conduct organization impact analysis and enterprise redesign strategies emerging out of ERP transformation program and identify key stakeholders.
• Assess the current challenges in the master data, transaction data and prepare detailed roadmap with Product teams to address these challenges.
• Create and embed a prioritization approach to develop a roadmap for innovation with the relevant processes, tools, and metrics to support business objectives and new growth opportunities.
• Partnering with Bekaert Internal (Business and ADS) and partner ecosystem to align and steer the organizational readiness.
• Own process and act as decision maker for program changes requests impacting IT delivery, schedule, and/or budget through a disciplined change management process.
• Drive alignment between the Global Process Owner community, SMEs and the IT execution teams to optimize delivery outcomes.
• Executive point-of-contact for IT implementation partners; govern SI performance management and relationship.
• Escalation points for risks, issues, and dependencies; resolve and/or determine if higher level escalation is warranted.
• Be a leader in globally networked Bekaert organization and constantly engages with cross cultural, functional, departmental teams across Bekaert and with technology partners around the globe.
• Develop team capabilities and manage deployment to provide customer-focused design and implementation support.
• Manage budget and 3rd Party resources allocation, negotiate contracts with vendors and promote relevant cost saving initiatives.
  
  

III. Essential Skills & Competencies

• Master’s degree in IT or equivalent experience
• Overall, 15 years + experience in leading multiple enterprise scale transformational initiatives with a proven track record for delivery and successful business outcomes
• Proven track record of collaboration across multiple IT organizations, business partners and stakeholders; ability to operate in an ambiguous environment, ability to think beyond the current boundaries.
• Managing large enterprise applications and application teams for critical system performance across a broad set of business operations and critical business needs
• Proven experience and skills – functional and technical in the context of SAP ERP platform for Enterprise capabilities.
• Successful delivery of large SAP / ERP programs to ensure the overall success of implementation of SAP solutions and business processes.
• Demonstrated mastery of management communication and presentation skills, skilled at influencing relationships with internal business customers at executive and senior management levels.
• Established record of success building high-performance teams, developing leaders, and driving necessary organizational change
  
  

Be bold and take the leap!

Our Digital Advanced Solutions (ADS) team is a dynamic group of technologists from around the globe who consistently push boundaries in digital innovation, cyber resilience, data science, intelligent automation, cloud solutions, and new agile methodologies.

It is also good to know tht at Bekaert, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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