Director - Global Business Systems

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively. 

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner!

Hours 

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Onsite with Flexibility

  Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position in the United States is $182,820 - $242,178.20. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria. 

Join Our Team as a Director-Global Business Systems!

The Director – Global Business Systems is accountable for leading the strategic transformation of business processes across S&C through the implementation of a modern ERP system. This role focuses on defining and standardizing business processes and ensuring that technology supports these standards. The Director manages a global team of Business Process Managers and collaborates extensively with cross-functional leaders, including executive leadership. The position is central to the success of a multi-year ERP program and the realization of associated business benefits. 

Key Responsibilities:

• ERP Roadmap: Develop and own an ERP business roadmap aligned with S&C’s goals, including identification of supporting software solutions to fill potential gaps left that cannot be addressed by the current system. 
• Business Process Modernization: Lead the definition, documentation, and modernization of future-state global business processes across all S&C locations. Act as the central portfolio owner of process plans in respect to their interaction with the ERP system. 
• Portfolio and Project Management: Design and oversee a comprehensive portfolio and project management framework to support ERP-related initiatives. Ensure strategic alignment across business units, maintain governance protocols, track milestones and deliverables, and facilitate resource optimization to drive efficient execution and benefit realization across the ERP program. 
• Process Domain Ownership: Direct a team of 4–5 Business Process Managers, each responsible for different process domains (e.g., MRP, production execution, procurement, etc). 
• Process-Driven System Design: Act as the primary partner to key business leaders in understanding the needs of their broad functions and cascading those needs down the Process Managers to ensure broader benefits/functionality are prioritized during system design.   
• ERP Project Portfolio Leadership: Oversee project planning, execution, and portfolio management of ERP-related initiatives, including governance, reporting, and benefits tracking. 
• Cross-Functional Quality Leadership: Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to integrate customer requirements into product and process design. Ensure cross-functional alignment on quality standards and deliverables. 
• Quality Metrics and Continuous Feedback: Implement robust mechanisms for capturing and analyzing key ERP metrics, including system benefit realization and system-driven improvements to key business metrics like profitability and inventory efficiency.  
• Leadership & People Management: Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing team. Role model appropriate and professional workplace behaviors, address/mediate conflicts to restore harmony, and support a positive, healthy, and inclusive workplace culture in accordance with S&C’s mission, vision, values, and guiding principles. Manage departmental administrative team member processes, including but not