Assistant Director, Retail ERP

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Job Description:

Job Title: Assistant Director, Retail ERP                                             FLSA: Exempt

Department: Information Technology                                                Revision Date: 10/2024

General Function:

As the Assistant Director, Retail ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), you will work alongside a team of Retail & Technology professionals responsible for planning, establishing, and deploying Hy-Vee's future ERP landscape.  Your primary focus is to create and bring to life the future application landscape covering third party and custom developed applications across a diverse set of business functional areas.

Core Competencies:

• Partnerships

• Growth mindset

• Results oriented

• Customer focused

• Professionalism

Reporting Relations:

Accountable and Reports to: Director, Retail ERP                 

Direct Reports: None                                      

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the creation of the future operating model for the holistic ERP solution, including defining the ERP and legacy application landscape integration and interoperability through implementation phases
• Works with the System Integrator and Internal teams to:
• Ensures program deliverables are consistent with retail and SAP leading technology practices 
• Develops the Implementation Roadmap and align internal and external resource staffing plans
• Solvse key ERP issues to improve functionality, efficiency and outcomes at the Retail level
• Assists in providing innovative leadership to business partners by leveraging new technologies and new ways to utilize technology to generate value in operational excellence, real-time business intelligence, and improved communication to customers 
• Provides guidance and leadership on sun setting of legacy systems including data archiving considerations 
• Drives, manage and coordinate activities throughout assigned programs to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed timeframe.  
• Oversees assigned program needs by studying, analyzing, and evaluating industry leading practices and lessons learned for program execution.
• Recommends and implement approved modifications to process, resources, systems, or other applicable functions for future success of strategic programs
• Defines and executes resource training and development for support of SAP and ancillary third-party applications enabling production cutover
• Establishes culture of inclusion, critical thinking, and communication with architects, technical leads, and engineers to design interim or replacement solutions for legacy applications impacted by the ERP initiative
• Assists the team that successfully designs innovative, user-focused, solutions involving a mixture of third party and custom applications
• Provides retail knowledge in developing the data strategy for the ERP initiative while working in parallel with the Enterprise Data Team to execute the strategy.
• Ensures collaboration and communication of data strategy and data model Assists with technical system validation of proposed business process changes during the Design phase. 
• Coordinates and validates that system integrations will function efficiently, accurately, and without service interruptions in the future operating model
• Responsible for viability of ERP application landscape to meet strategic growth needs by maintaining knowledge of state-of-the-art applications, application integration, delivery methodologies, micro-services application architecture designs, as well as emerging technologies
• Facilitates alignment with other leaders across functional area project workstreams (Supply Chain, IT, Finance, etc.)
• Provides thoughtful leadership to establish and enable architecture, scalability, best practices, technology portfolio, lifecycle management, as well as development standards and methodologies
• Ensures application solutions are consistently of high quality, performant, without service interruption
• Drives leadership level communication and resolution for technical solutions and designs which may impact realization of benefits and provides guidance and support to s