IT Senior Director – SAP ERP

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:

Primary Job Function

The Sr. Director IT, SAP ERP is a global leader responsible for delivering technology strategy, solutions and services for Abbott across Abbott Nutrition, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Diabetes Care, Point of Care, and Molecular. The role is responsible for modernizing and transforming Global planning and supply, Commercial, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Warehousing, Supply Chain and Compliance.

The position provides strategic leadership to executive leadership and their teams including the Vice Presidents and Affiliate General managers, guiding and leading the Organization in driving standardizing, adopting best in class process towards business transformation, application modernization, cybersecurity, data protection, quality and compliance.

This position will develop, implement, and manage next generation ERP solutions (S/4HANA) for Abbott enabling them to perform their business functions more effectively and efficiently.  This role will define the ERP application architecture, hosting strategies, security postures and technology roadmaps to accelerate business growth. This role should posses experience in delivery programs in SAP ECC solution.

This position is accountable for architecting, establishing, and maintaining next generation cloud ERP technologies that will support > $8 bn of Abbott revenue (20%) and $20bn in intercompany transfer without any disruption to business. This position will have accountability for managing $30MM+ of annual costs to support these next generation technologies.

The position requires a knowledge of several end-to-end business processes across Abbott’s diverse business functions (commercial, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, legal, procurement, supply chain), an in-depth knowledge of software delivery methodology, processes and tools, and capabilities within the next generation ERP technology to meet Abbott’s growth.  This position requires proven leadership in delivery of SAP ERP solutions and very strong organization and change management experience.

Core Job Responsibilities

Specific IT Responsibilities:

• ERP Systems Strategy- Responsible for leadership of developing and deploying  solutions that support Abbott commercial affiliates, identifying process efficiencies and state-of-the-art solutions and innovation through successful, consistent, and predictable delivery of programs, projects, and applications.
• IT Delivery & Support – Ensures delivery of IT solutions, collaborating with business to ensure good solution / application architecture and design, resourcing, skills, and capabilities.  Establishes and maintains support teams to ensure operations and maintenance of all applications supporting affiliates in 40+ countries.  
• Compliance - Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.  Assure compliance to all internal/external regulatory and policies.
• Cybersecurity - Responsible for oversight and enforcement of internal security policies and applicable external cyber regulations across functions.
• Ensure customer and supplier relationships are fostered and strengthened.

• People Management - Manage a high-performing team of ~40 employees and service providers to deliver a quality solutions and global services with adherence to standard processes, tools, and service levels.  Negotiate contracts with strategic partners.

• Budget Management - Develop and direct budget execution plans to ensure resources for changing client demands.
   

Supervisory / Management Responsibilities

                      Numbers only

Direct Reports

Exempts 6-8

Non-Exempts 0

Indirect Reports

Exempts 30-40

Non-Exempts 0

Project Specific Resources

250-300

Total Off Shore Resources

200

Responsible for managing internal, external and offshore contract equivalent required for full delivery to Abbott's enterprise, division, and/or site.

Position Accountability / Scope

Span of Business Function Control:

• This position will support all Abbott divisions (AN, ADC, CRDx, AMD, APOC, EPD & MD), Corporate functions