Senior Director, Business Systems

 

Work Arrangement

This is a remote and will require travel to AEVEX locations as necessary.

Job Overview

AEVEX Aerospace is seeking a hands-on, execution-focused Senior Director to lead Enterprise Business Systems with deep expertise in manufacturing ERP environments — specifically Infor LN / CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense.

The Senior Director of Business Systems will be responsible for executing the company’s enterprise systems strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance systems suitable for a highly innovative organization. This is not a maintenance role. This is a transformational role that will elevate the impact of business systems technologies across a growing technology-leading organization. A key aspect of this role will involve fostering a culture of collaboration and inclusivity, ensuring IT is aligned with business goals and serves as a strategic partner. This will require extensive stakeholder engagement at all levels, from delivery teams to executive leadership. While this is a strategic role, it is also essential that the successful candidate understands how to work in a SME environment, bringing a hands-on approach to leadership and driving change. This role is responsible for enterprise systems, platforms, and services that run the business. The selected candidate must bring strong operational rigor, manufacturing domain depth, and proven experience leading ERP stabilization in complex, growth-oriented environments. This role reports to the Chief Information Officer.

 Essential Functions

ERP Stabilization & Manufacturing Excellence

• Own the operational performance of Infor LN across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and program operations
• Lead ERP remediation, configuration standardization, and process alignment
• Establish governance, change control, and release management discipline
• Drive improved labor posting accuracy, inventory controls, and production visibility
• Ensure ERP supports DCAA, FAR, DFARS, and GovCon compliance requirements

 Enterprise Systems Integration

• Operate and optimize enterprise systems including cloud environments, desktop, SaaS platforms, business applications, and internal tools.
• Build a resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure aligned with compliance and data governance requirements.
• Standardize workflows across: Manufacturing, Engineering, Program Management, Contracts, Finance
• Creates, updates, and documents process workflows, identifies gaps and weaknesses in existing processes and recommends actionable solutions to address those and future needs
• Eliminate manual workarounds and shadow systems
• Manages integrations and data flows between business system applications.
• Define clear system-of-record boundaries
• Oversee ERP integrations (Salesforce, Workforce Planning, CLM, BI layer)

 Data & Reporting Alignment

• Ensure ERP data integrity and master data governance
• Implement data architecture and data governance that deliver reporting and analytical capabilities as a competitive advantage for Aevex.
• Partner with Data Engineering to enable: Accurate labor reporting, Cost visibility, Production metrics, Margin forecasting
• Improve reporting automation and audit readiness
• "Go to" for all SOPs for business systems; updates and maintains all necessary documentation.

 Leadership & Team Development

• Shapes the future state of enterprise-wide business systems and drives the successful implementation of those business systems
• Lead a high-performing IT team, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability. Through inclusive, resilient, and inspirational leadership, will build trust and bring focus and stability to the greater team.
• Operate and manage the financial performance of the Business Systems Team and own the strategic and operational relationships with technology vendors and global delivery teams.
• Leads the daily operations of the Business Systems Team assuring proper functioning and performance of all AEVEX Business Systems
• Lead and develop Business Systems team
• Build a culture of accountability and documentation discipline
• Establish clear SLAs and service standards
• Recruit, retain, and mentor ERP and functional system talent
• Work collaboratively with internal teams including Finance, Program Management, HR, Business Development, Contracts, Procurement, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to gather requirements for improvement projects and then executes on those projects
• Partner with security leadership to provide secure operations that enable the business and meet the requirements of providin