ERP Strategy & Operations Director (Hybrid)

Harris County; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris County seeks an Assistant Director, ERP to lead the ERP environment, oversee PeopleSoft and related enterprise applications, and drive HR, payroll, and finance processes. You will mentor staff, align ERP services with strategic goals, and partner with IT leadership to optimize operations in a complex environment.

You will manage executives and project managers, coordinate resources, and ensure governance, budgeting, and timely delivery of initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Systems, or related field.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience involving enterprise systems management, ERP systems architecture, data integration, business process management, team leadership, change management, and/or business transformation.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of functional support experience.
• Experience with ERP implementation, support, leadership, and management.
• Strong knowledge of human resources and finance business processes.

Responsibilities

• Defines and executes the ERP strategy, aligning enterprise systems with organizational goals and identifying opportunities for improvement and business transformation.
• Leads day-to-day ERP operations and manages managers, functional resources, and support resources responsible for PeopleSoft and other enterprise applications.
• Provides overall direction and guidance to assigned project managers; reviews project requests and coordinates schedules, resources, and departmental activities.
• Communicates and coordinates cross-functionally with business stakeholders, key business units, and departmental leadership regarding strategic initiatives, major projects, priorities, and critical issues.
• Ensures successful and timely delivery of project initiatives by engaging stakeholders, managing expectations, coordinating resource allocation, supporting change management, and aligning work with departmental goals and key performance indicators.
• Establishes controls, governance, standards, and processes to ensure priorities, production issues, project work, and unplanned outages are appropriately managed and addressed.
• Oversees systems analysis and programming activities that enable enterprise business processes and supports the development, acquisition, adaptation, and integration of application software.
• Supports feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, and projections for software and hardware requirements.
• Directs personnel management and development activities, including performance management, compensation considerations, recruiting, coaching, mentoring, resource planning, and identification of skill or training gaps.
• Manages and partners with vendors, including addressing service challenges, reviewing contract and service-level expectations, and identifying changes needed to support future requirements.
• Develops and manages annual capital and operating expense budgets; monitors budget performance, future initiatives, vendor and consultant delivery, and opportunities for cost effectiveness.

Skills

ERP leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Mentoring

Vendor management

Budgeting

Strategic planning

Communication

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Systems, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

PeopleSoft

Microsoft Office

Job description

Harris County seeks an Assistant Director, ERP to lead the ERP environment, oversee PeopleSoft and related enterprise applications, and drive HR, payroll, and finance processes. You will mentor staff, align ERP services with strategic goals, and partner with IT leadership to optimize operations in a complex environment.

You will manage executives and project managers, coordinate resources, and ensure governance, budgeting, and timely delivery of initiatives.