Director, ERP - Oracle Cloud Financials

Hub Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

FSA

EAP

Life & AD&D Insurance

Disability

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Hub Group in Chicago seeks a Director, ERP to lead the ERP IT team and own the Oracle Cloud Financials program, ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and design-compliant solutions.

You will coordinate cross-functional ERP initiatives, manage risks, and drive modernization across finance processes with a focus on stability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10–12 years of ERP experience, including Oracle financials cloud implementations in the last 2 years.
• 10–12 years of ERP configuration experience.
• 10–12 years of SQL experience on Oracle or other RDBMS.
• 8+ years with XML structures and XSD schemas.
• 8+ years in requirements gathering and mapping current to future processes.
• Experience upgrading ERP applications and applying patches.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic team environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ERP IT team, develop and manage project plans and resources.
• Coach the team to ensure quality, predictability, flow, and velocity of development.
• Design, build, and implement advanced ERP solutions meeting requirements.
• Participate in design, development, testing, rollout and support phases.
• Translate functional specifications into design specifications with the Configuration team.
• Ensure designs align with ERP framework for multi-customer reuse.
• Perform ERP configuration per the approved solution design.
• Follow SDLC and QA best practices to ensure quality deliverables.
• Support testing strategies: functional, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Handle additional responsibilities and partner with stakeholders.
• Lead technology activities supporting month/quarter-end financial processes.
• Identify features in upgrades for assessment and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product Owners for architectural consistency.
• Ensure technical performance across the platform and lifecycle.

Skills

ERP leadership

Project management

SQL

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Oracle SQL

XML/XSD

SOA

Job description

The Director, ERP is responsible for the overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts for the financial system (Oracle Cloud Financials), and works in a highly collaborative, cross-functional Agile environment. This role will be responsible for the functional solution design and application configuration ensuring compliance with the defined design standards. As a Director, ERP, this role is expected to lead ERP IT team.

This position will establish and implement project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope, adhere to high quality standards, and meet customer expectations. This position requires extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies, tools, techniques, resource management practices, and change management techniques. This role is also technical, requiring a mixture of architectural knowledge, technical leadership, operational expertise in a cloud setting, as well as the ability to communicate plans, manage risks, and deliver to schedule.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead the ERP IT team, develop and manage project plan and resources
• Lead, coach, educate, lead the team in applying concepts and principles and staying focused on quality, predictability, flow and velocity of development
• Design, build, and implement advanced functional and technical solutions which meet desired business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Actively participate in phases of system implementation including functional and technical design, system design and development, testing and roll-out and support
• Assist Configuration team in translating the functional specifications into design specifications and work with the team to obtain solution design approval
• Ensure the solution design is consistent with ERP framework and work to take custom requests and convert into reusable configuration for multi-customer usage
• Perform ERP configuration in accordance with the approved solution design
• Follow industry standards related to software development lifecycle and software quality assurance practices and methodologies to ensure quality of project deliverables and technical solutions
• Contribute to the project testing strategy and test plan generation. Support functional testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing providing root cause analysis and timely defect resolution.
• Follow through with commitments and assume additional responsibilities without being asked
• Partner with internal, external and business partners to support the ERP application
• Lead technology activities in support of month and quarter-end financial processes
• Identify new features in quarterly upgrades to be assessed and implemented for Financials solution
• Partner with other application Product Owners to ensure consistency in solutions and adherence to best practices for architecture
• Ensure the technical performance of all solutions within the platform. Oversee the entire line life cycle from strategic planning to effective project management of tactical activities
• Regularly create service improvement plans - in terms of people, processes and technology - to improve a service
• Duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or changed from time to time

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (or related degree), or equivalent experience.
• 10-12 years of ERP experience, including implementation of multiple Oracle financials cloud solutions within the last 2 years
• 10-12 years of configuration skills within the ERP product.
• 10-12 years of working knowledge of SQL on Oracle or another RDBMS.
• More than 8 years on experience in working with XML structures and XSD schemas.
• More than 8 years of experience in requirements gathering and mapping out “to be” business processes.
• Should have experience in upgrading ERP application and applying application patches.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities as well as flexibility to adapt to change with new systems and methods while working in a team environment.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture in an enterprise environment
• Experience with monitoring and alerting best practices, leveraging industry standard tools
• Ability to work in a projects-based, team environment
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities as well as flexibility to adapt to change with new systems and methods while working in a team environment

Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000/year base salary + bonus eligibility

This is an estimated range based on the circumstances at the time of posting, however, may change based on a combination of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, education, market factors, geographical location, budget, and demand

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan including:

• Medical
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Life & AD&D Insurance
• Disability
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays

About Us

Hub Group is the premier, customer-centric supply chain company offering comprehensive transportation and logistics management solutions. Keeping our customers’ needs in focus, Hub Group designs, continually optimizes and applies industry-leading technology to our customers’ supply chains for better service, greater efficiency and total visibility. As an award-winning, publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HUBG) with $5 billion in revenue, our 6,000 employees and drivers across the globe are always in pursuit of "The Way Ahead" - a commitment to service, integrity and innovation. We believe the way you do something is just as important as what you do. For more information, visit www.hubgroup.com