Sr Director of IT - ERP Transformation

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

Mattel is embarking on a multi-year, fast-paced ERP transformation across all areas and is searching for a technology leader with an immense passion for delivering business value in the form of process simplification and modernization enabled by technology, data, and program management.

The Senior Director of ERP Transformation is a key technology partner to Mattel’s business leadership - SVPs and VPs of Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Marketing. This role will lead innovation, project management, systems development and implementation, and support of all technology that enables these areas. 
This leader will have excellent domain experience in these areas, as well as a proven success record of delivering business value and organizational transformation in a matrixed IT environment with reliance on offshore delivery partners and global teams.  They will bring a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modern technology solutions, excellent vendor management skill, and have a proven track record of modernizing and transforming technology capabilities aligned to business process transformation. Experience with multiple ERP implementations is a huge plus.

This position will report directly to Mattel’s Global Supply Chain Technology VP and will be a key member of the Global Technology Organization’s leadership team. This leader is a key contributor to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide IT strategy, while maintaining its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success.
Local (El Segundo) candidates are strongly preferred. Remote candidates are required to travel 50% - 75% (to corporate and other facilities as required). Relocation to Corporate in El Segundo, CA is recommended. For local candidates, onsite presence is needed.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Lead the Global Technology Organization (GTO) team that is responsible for delivering technology solutions for ERP rollout using in-house and outsourced global teams and operations.  This team encompasses Portfolio Owners, Product Owners, Business Analysts and System Analysts that have both functional and technical knowledge in the area of all ERP functions (Supply Chain ERP experience is mandatory).

• Work with the CTO, Senior IT Leadership team, Enterprise Architecture and Global Supply Chain (GSC) Leadership Team to develop and maintain a strategic roadmap for GSC that supports business strategies and priorities for all ERP functions.

• Act as a trusted advisor while building and maintaining relationships with business executives to develop a clear understanding of business needs; innovate on and identify opportunities and educate the business where modern technology solutions can add value or achieve stated goals.

• Work with our PMO to develop and oversee the annual operating plan - accountable for budgets covering OPEX and CAPEX.

• Ensure that all Project/Delivery Managers working on your portfolios have the correct resources to deliver their plans and that escalations on resources are supported/facilitated.

• Provide functional and technical leadership and hands-on, day-to-day support to agile teams in implementation of solutions.

• Ensure that all the Business Analysts and Scrum Masters are sufficiently trained and working toward the goals of the Mattel brands.

• Manage and grow the IT Business Analyst and Scrum Master teams and ensure all follow the industry best practices.

• Lead the design and selection of solutions based on functional, technical, and budgetary considerations in order to best fulfill competing business needs.

• Participate in the assessment of external and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.

• Accountable for managing the technical delivery of Global Supply Chain solutions including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and Tier 3 production support which is heavy reliant on outsourced delivery partners.

• Responsible for being the overall authority on development and delivery of Global Supply Chain platforms.

• Build an effective organization that can deliver, s