ERP Applications Lead

Rio Tinto; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 15%

Remote-friendly

Onsite as required

Job summary

Rio Tinto / U.S. Borax seeks an experienced ERP & Enterprise Applications Lead to shape and implement the future ERP landscape during a major transformation.

You will lead ERP selection, migration, and integration programs across functions, balancing business requirements with scalable technology solutions. Join at a pivotal moment to define the technology environment, manage vendors and partners, and collaborate with senior stakeholders in technology, finance and operations.

Qualifications

• ERP project management experience delivering large-scale ERP programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead ERP selection, implementation and transformation programmes.
• Define future ERP landscape and integration with enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with functions to translate requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead ERP migration, integration and deployment activities.
• Manage ERP implementation partners and technology vendors.
• Ensure ERP integrates with broader enterprise application environment.
• Support architecture, data migration and technology transition activities.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across technology, finance, supply chain, manufacturing and operations.

Skills

ERP project management

ERP implementations

Enterprise applications

Data migration

System integration

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Manufacturing/industrial domain

Program governance

Leadership

Tools

SAP

Oracle

JD Edwards

Infor

IFS

Microsoft Dynamics

Epicor

QAD

Job description

RPS Recruitment has been appointed as the specialist recruitment partner to Rio Tinto / U.S. Borax as the business transitions towards operating as a more independent, standalone organization.

As part of this major transformation, we're looking for an experienced ERP & Enterprise Applications Lead to take a leading role in shaping, selecting and implementing the future ERP and enterprise applications environment.

This is a rare opportunity to join an established industrial business at the beginning of a major ERP transformation, helping define the future landscape rather than simply inheriting an established system.

As ERP & Enterprise Applications Lead, you'll work across technology and the wider business to:

• Lead and project manage key elements of the ERP selection, implementation and transformation programme.
• Help define the future ERP and enterprise applications landscape.
• Work across business functions to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead ERP migration, integration, implementation and deployment activities.
• Manage and challenge ERP implementation partners, vendors and third-party providers.
• Ensure effective integration between ERP and the wider enterprise application environment.
• Support application architecture, data migration and technology transition activities.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across technology, finance, supply chain, manufacturing and operations.

The successful ERP & Enterprise Applications Lead will bring:

• Strong experience delivering ERP implementations, transformations or migrations.
• Experience project managing major ERP or enterprise application programmes.
• Broad enterprise applications experience beyond a single system or module.
• Experience with major ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Infor, IFS, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor, QAD or similar.
• Strong understanding of ERP integration, application architecture and data migration.
• Experience managing ERP implementation partners and technology vendors.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate across both technology and the wider business.
• Manufacturing, industrial, mining or similarly complex operational experience would be highly advantageous.

You'll be joining U.S. Borax at a genuinely unique point in its history! Rather than maintaining somebody else's ERP environment, you'll have the opportunity to help select it, implement it and shape how it integrates with the wider business.

For the right ERP & Enterprise Applications Lead, this offers the scale and complexity of an established Rio Tinto business combined with the ownership, visibility and influence that comes from helping create a new standalone technology environment.

The position is largely remote, with onsite presence in Boron and/or Burbank driven by business and project requirements. Great benefits are provided from Rio Tinto including a 15% performance bonus that can increase beyond that depending on performance.

RPS Recruitment is the appointed specialist recruitment partner to Rio Tinto / U.S. Borax for this search.