IT Enterprise Solutions Manager

Ring Container Technologies; Oakland (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ring Container Technologies seeks a Principal Technical Functional Analyst to lead ERP and related platforms, ensuring end-to-end solution integrity and strategic IT alignment with business goals.

You will partner with the VP of IT to govern configuration, data, security, and integrations, driving standardization while guiding vendors and delivery teams through ERP roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Deep experience as ERP design authority or enterprise architect.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, or Dynamics 365.
• Strong governance and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern ERP solution blueprint, modules, integrations, security.
• Oversee ERP implementations, upgrades, and enhancements to align with business needs.
• Lead testing standards, data migration, and go-live readiness.
• Translate business needs into system capabilities for delivery teams.
• Influence roadmap decisions with vendors while protecting standards.

Skills

ERP design authority

Leadership

Vendor management

Process analytics

Tools

SAP

Oracle ERP

Dynamics 365

Job description

Role Summary

The Principal Technical Functional Analyst serves as the design authority and senior technical/functional analyst for LN, PLM and EAM platforms. This role ensures end‑to‑end solution integrity, strategic alignment between business objectives and IT capabilities, and long‑term sustainability of the ERP roadmap. This position, which collaborates with the VP of Information Technology, focuses on aligning standard ERP functions with business needs while keeping customizations to a minimum. The role bridges business process owners, ERP delivery team, and external vendors.

Core Purpose

Ensure the ERP and supporting systems enables business strategy, operational efficiency, and scalability—not merely system stability.

Provide guidance on ERP and supporting systems configuration, integration, security, and limited customization to support enterprise objectives.

Own and govern ERP and supporting systems design decisions across modules, integrations, data, and technical architecture.

Protect long‑term maintainability, upgradeability, and value realization of enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Business & Process Leadership

• Lead or oversee cross‑functional process analysis and requirements definition across Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and related domains
• Work with business process owners to embrace standard system functionality to provide successful outcomes, process harmonization and enterprise consistency
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on how to utilize systems capabilities

Ownership

• Define and govern the ERP solution blueprint, including core modules and functional scope, integrations and middleware, security roles and access controls, and technical and environment architecture
• Work with VP of IT to approve configuration approaches, custom developments, extensibilities, and integrations to ensure architectural integrity and upgrade readiness
• Establish ERP design standards and guardrails

Implementation & Lifecycle Governance

• Oversee ERP and supporting systems implementations, upgrades, and major enhancements to ensure alignment with the enterprise requirements, budget, and risk profile
• Lead the effort to set standards for testing strategy and quality assurance, data migration and data quality, cutover and go‑live readiness, post‑deployment hypercare and stabilization
• Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future releases and roadmap planning

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Serve as a translator between business stakeholders and technical teams
• Lead the conversations providing clear direction to system integrators and software vendors, validating recommendations against enterprise standards and business priorities
• Influence roadmap decisions with ERP and supporting systems vendors while protecting organizational interests and architectural integrity

Governance, Risk & Continuous Optimization

• Influence ERP and supporting systems design authorities, architecture review boards, and change governance
• Control what enters the ERP and supporting systems backlog and what proceeds to build and deployment
• Monitor ERP and supporting systems adoption, system performance, data quality, and business value realization
• Involvement in continuous improvement initiatives across processes, controls, reporting, and automation

Typical Skills & Experience

• Cross‑functional business process expertise across multiple ERP domains
• Hands‑on experience with at least one major ERP platform (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365, NetSuite, Infor LN)
• Strong technical literacy, including integrations and middleware, data migration and master data governance, security roles and controls, environment strategy and release management, performance and upgrade considerations
• Ability to lead teams and influence stakeholders while guiding delivery teams
• Experience managing conflict between local business needs and global enterprise standards

Preferred Experience

• Serving as ERP design authority or enterprise solution architect
• Background in manufacturing or asset‑intensive industries
• Experience leading multi‑year ERP roadmaps and large‑scale transformations