Business Systems Administrator - Team Lead

University of Dayton Research Institute; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Dayton Research Institute is seeking a Business Systems Administrator - Team Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership for the Business Systems team, with primary responsibility for the administration, optimization, and governance of the JAGGAER procurement platform.

This role combines hands-on system administration with team leadership and business partnership, ensuring reliability, integration integrity, and continuous improvement across UDRI's enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IS, Business Admin, Finance, or relevant field with 10 years of experience.
• Five years of leadership or team coordination experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise procurement or source-to-pay platforms.
• Experience managing system integrations and workflow automation.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills in a team environment.
• U.S. person due to federal contract requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Business Systems team responsible for administration of all UDRI business systems.
• Serve as lead system administrator for UDRI procurement system, JAGGAER.
• Ensure system reliability, integration integrity, process efficiency, and continuous improvement across UDRI's business systems.

Skills

Procurement systems

Team leadership

System integrations

Stakeholder communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems / Business Administration / Finance

Tools

JAGGAER admin

API integrations

Middleware

Job description

Position Summary

Step into a high-impact leadership role-transform business systems, enhance procurement performance, and shape UDRI's operational future. UDRI is seeking a Business Systems Administrator - Team Lead to provide strategic and operational leadership for the Business Systems team, with primary responsibility for the administration, optimization, and governance of the JAGGAER procurement platform.

This role combines hands-on system administration with team leadership and business partnership. The position leads the business systems team, which is responsible for the system administration of all UDRI business systems. This position will serve as the lead system administrator for UDRI procurement system, JAGGAER. The Team Lead will ensure system reliability, integration integrity, process efficiency, and continuous improvement across UDRI's business systems.

The ideal candidate possesses strong procurement system expertise, experience managing technical staff, and the ability to align business systems architecture with institutional and federal compliance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Finance, or relevant field and 10 years of relevant experience.
• Five years of leadership or team coordination experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise procurement or source-to-pay platforms.
• Experience managing system integrations and workflow automation.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, including the ability to lead in a team environment and effectively interface with a variety of teams.
• Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. person (i.e., a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee).

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with JAGGAER platform administration.
• Experience supporting procurement systems in a research or government contracting environment.
• Familiarity with API-based integrations and middleware solutions.
• Experience supporting systems in environments subject to federal oversight or regulated compliance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of procurement-to-pay and supplier lifecycle management processes.

Closing Statement

Informed by its Catholic and Marianist mission, the University is committed to the dignity of every human being. Informed by this commitment, we seek to increase diversity in all of its forms, achieve fair outcomes, and model inclusion across our campus community. The University is committed to policies of affirmative action designed to increase the employment opportunities of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1973.