D365 F&O Architect – SCM Sales & Commercial

About Us:

 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

 

Job Description:

The D365 F&O Architect – SCM - Sales & Commercial is the IT domain leader for the Sales & Commercial Project Management our Microsoft D365 SCM global program.

The primary responsibility of this role is the evaluation of our business requirements and the development of solutions and services to meet those needs. A fundamental part of this role is to govern the design of standard processes and systems associated with our Sales & Commercial domain, ensuring that Barry-Wehmiller applies industry standard best practices in the delivery of secure, robust, effective, and scalable solutions.

The Architect’s role is highly collaborative, leading the systems design for their domain, working closely with Solutions Analysts and the other domain Architects to develop and implement the future business systems at BW. The role is a fundamental part of the company’s new ERP Center of Excellence (CoE) group.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Lead the IT Sales & Commercial domain.
• Analyze, research, plan, and design for the environment within the Sales & Commercial domain ensuring that business needs are met, coordinating within the broader group of Solutions Architects to ensure an integrated, coherent approach to the whole systems design.
• Work closely with your counterparts within the business to provide architectural and application expertise and guidance applied to the entire spectrum of the Sales & Commercial systems implementation.
• Govern the design standards for the domain ensuring that we reuse standard systems setup and processes, evaluate requests for modification working closely with Solutions Analysts, business leaders to approve, modify or reject changes.
• Collaborate closely with our external partners to ensure that we optimize the technical landscape and that we are fully aware of external changes and developments that we need to work with to secure an ongoing robust landscape.
• Ensure that design processes are established, followed, that the design is appropriately documented, and that test plans are developed.
• Assist users in testing and adoption of process improvements, working closely with Business Partners and Solutions Analysts.
• Assist with corrective actions when D365 system related issues reach “Tier 3” status.
• Assemble appropriate documentation to support process change. Where needed originate training aids or standard operating procedures.
• Provide project support where required for new implementations/rollouts.
• Support for continuous process improvements.
• Provide support to the systems architecture team when needed, especially regarding the installation of significant upgrades from our software solution suppliers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

Knowledge and Experience

• Must have 6+ years direct experience leading the architecture, configuration, and development for the Sales & Commercial domain of D365 Finance & Operations in a multi-national company. It is preferred that the person fulfilling this role has strong experience in the following areas:
  • New equipment, Aftermarket, and Service Parts sales.
  • Experience in both the Engineer and Configure to order sales processes.
  • Project-based manufacturing, work breakdown structures.
  • Capable-to-promise (CTP) and Available-to-promise (ATP)
  • Logistics planning – Factory Acceptance Testing, teardown, and installations.
  • Customer invoicing, in particular management of a progress billing cycle.
• Must have direct experience of the full ERP implementation cycle, from initial needs analysis, through rollout and stabilization.
• Must have direct experience of leveraging and integrating enterprise level systems, inclusive of ERP, Business Intelligence, and Consolidation Systems.
• Experience in systems governance for the domain and the ability to work with others to establish the development process and cont