IT Director, SAP S/4HANA, Business Technology & Innovation

Company Information
Headquartered in St. Augustine, FL, with offices and manufacturing facilities all around the globe, Amphenol CIT is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of high-performance wire, cable, and medical devices. We provide complete interconnect solutions to industries like Aerospace, Military & Defense Electronics, Space, Medical, Test & Measurement, and Industrial.

Our talented team of employees worldwide helps bring movies to your seat on airplanes, deliver mission-critical information from drones to the command office, transfer heart rhythm to paper, route communications from space, connect power to downhill oil drills, and get planes back in the air faster. At Amphenol CIT, we make the amazing possible. Take the next step to become an integral part of our team by applying today and kickstart your journey with us.


SUMMARY
The IT Director, SAP S/4HANA, Business Technology & Innovation, is responsible for maximizing the business value of the SAP investment through the strategic leadership, optimization, governance, and continuous enhancement of SAP S/4HANA and the broader SAP Business Suite ecosystem. This role will lead the evolution of SAP from a transactional ERP platform into a strategic business enablement platform by leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Fiori, SAP Joule, SAP Build, Workflow Automation, Embedded Analytics, AI capabilities, and other SAP innovations. The Director will partner with business leaders, Ops Directors, Functional Leaders, Global Process Owners, Continuous Improvement teams, and IT leadership to identify opportunities to improve utilization of SAP’s capabilities with the goals of increased revenue, improved margins, reduced operational costs, improved inventory, enhanced customer responsiveness, improved employee productivity, and accelerated decision-making through automation, data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. This leader will own the SAP application strategy, roadmap, architecture, governance, support model, and innovation portfolio while ensuring SAP capabilities are aligned to business goals and objectives. The Director will manage our relationship with SAP, as well as with supporting partners and system integrators.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead the development and execution of the SAP portion of the IT Strategic Plan, working with the business and IT teams to identify and understand needs, develop and implement solutions. This is expected to include utilization of technologies and functionality that SAP has and will deploy such as solutions included in BTP, Joule, Fiori, Process Build and leaning into SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise.
• Lead the transition from SAP implementation to business value realization by improving business processes, reducing technical debt and customizations, creating reusable integration services, developing extension strategies that minimize SAP core modifications, create and lead the SAP AI roadmap utilizing SAP Joule and emerging SAP AI capabilities
• Lead the SAP and technology innovations roadmap, ensuring SAP investments directly support revenue growth, operational excellence, digital transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the company’s goals of revenue and OI growth, cost reductions and productivity improvements by utilizing technology and data to improve process efficiency, customer responsiveness, open new channels to market and other similar initiatives.
• Manage the functional and technical SAP IT managers to deliver solutions for day-to-day business execution needs as well as executing the overall vision for SAP value realization.
• Identify internal talent needed to keep up with new innovations and functionality that SAP is developing and deploying to maximize value.
• Build and manage a high-performance team that drives results by strong commitment, effective collaboration, and innovation.
• Work with internal IT networking and systems teams and SAP Basis support to ensure maximum SAP performance and operations and that new SAP technologies are deployed effectively within our network and systems.
• Manage SAP AMS(Application Management Support) capability supported by AMS provider.
• Manage the relationship with SAP directly as well as any systems integrators (AMS, Basis, and others) that are employed to maximize our return on SAP.
• Manage SAP solution delivery in compliance with ITGC guidelines.
• Other duties may be assigned

SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will have direct reports.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be ma