Director ERP Technical Services

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

THE OPPORTUNITY:

The Director ERP Technical Services will provide leadership to expedite, manage and coordinate a multitude of inter-related strategic and project activities globally (enterprise-wide IT - US based and international affiliates) within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects and deliver a platform for innovation and stability.  Position will work directly with Strategic Business and Executive IT management to establish project goals and business cases. The position will have responsibility to manage projects with annual spend of $10MM over the next 5 to 10 years.

This person should have the proven experience in the technical services domain to ensure best in class and common architecture build of basis, security, integration and business warehouse across multiple ERP platforms. This requires the capability to oversee highly diverse activities, multiple stakeholder groups, significant scope, schedule and resources.  Directors are responsible for the most complex combination of Abbott Business Solutions and Services (BSS) and delivery integration and demonstrate an expert understanding of the appropriate methodology, tools and skills to be used.  This position requires the skills needed to test hypotheses and conclusions leading to the development of innovative approaches, methodology, remove roadblocks, planning and deliverable standards in a manner that supports and reinforces high quality, effective and efficient delivery of the program.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON:

• Lead meeting facilitation with Executive management members (EVP, VP’s, DVP’s) to assist in determining strategic IT direction for Abbott Nutrition manufacturing and Supply Chain systems.
• Assess degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with division, group or senior executive management and sponsor, to gain agreement for resolution.
• Experience in hiring and building a high performing team that can deliver complex ERP programs (30+ headcount)
• Manage an annual spend of $40+MM and ensure that the ERP programs are on track and within budget.
• Ability to influence Senior stakeholders in the organization to adopt best in class and standardized business process.
• Measure performance to assure the program and its projects are progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
• Lead Sr Leadership teams in developing and executing a program plan ensuring that authorized resources are obtained to make certain that all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to program team, ancillary project teams, Division Cross-Division, Group and Executive Management.
• Maintain compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer science or related discipline required. MBA preferred.
• At least 12 years’ experience in project management, SAP basis, security, development and integration platforms, with a minimum of 9 years designing solutions and managing large projects.
• Experience implementing ERP programs with key responsibilities in SAP Basis, Security, Integration platforms and SAP Business warehouse (BW)
• Knowledge of next generation and digital ERP transformation.
• Deep understanding of SAP system architecture in the basis, development and security domain.
• Experience implementing modern integration tools (microservice) architecture in a SAP ERP environment.
• Knowledge of cloud offering from SAP and other vendors in the ERP technological domain.
• knowledge of Life Sciences business, preferably in IT & International
• enterprise thinking with ability to build credibility within the organization
• expertise in development and implementation of procedures and in-process metrics
• strong interpersonal skills (i.e. communication adaptability, meeting facilitation, negotiation, mediation, conflict management)
• ability to successfully adapt to changing requirements.
• Must be comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrate strong writing, problem solving and creative thinking skills, and ability to