ERP & Applications Strategy Lead

Albemarle; Georgia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Professional development

Job summary

Ketjen Corporation in Houston, TX is seeking a Head of Applications to lead the ERP and a broad application landscape that runs the business. SAP is the core ERP, supported by master data governance, cloud services, and specialized systems for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and more.

You will build the BRM model from the ground up, aligning functions with the applications team through a trusted link between business users and IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, or a related field.
• At least 10 years in enterprise applications leadership, including direct experience with SAP or a comparable ERP.
• Experience building or running a business relationship manager or IT business partner model.
• A track record of managing a large application portfolio.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across finance, supply chain, commercial, and other functional leaders.
• Experience managing software vendors, contracts, and implementation partners.
• Experience supporting applications in a manufacturing environment, including working with plant, operations, quality, EHS, maintenance, and supply chain stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Identify, recruit, and lead business relationship managers, drawing from internal talent where strong business knowledge exists and adding new hires where needed.
• Set the operating model for how BRMs gather requirements, manage demand, and prioritize competing requests across functions.
• Make sure every major business function has a clear channel into IT and understands ownership of its systems.
• Own the SAP roadmap end to end, including core ERP modules, master data governance, and cloud platform planning services.
• Prioritize enhancements, upgrades, and new capabilities against real business value and team constraints.
• Partner with finance, supply chain, and manufacturing leads to ensure ERP evolves with the business including plant operations and process workflows.
• Evaluate the current application landscape, build a full inventory, and rationalize the portfolio.
• Own the integration layer and maintain master data standards across functions.
• Complete separation close-out items tied to the Albemarle separation and confirm data ownership for relocated apps.
• Manage vendor relationships with SAP, implementation partners, and other software vendors; direct core contracts and transitions.

Job description

Ketjen Corporation in Houston, TX is seeking a Head of Applications to lead the ERP and a broad application landscape that runs the business. SAP is the core ERP, supported by master data governance, cloud services, and specialized systems for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and more.

You will build the BRM model from the ground up, aligning functions with the applications team through a trusted link between business users and IT.