Director, Enterprise Resource Planning

Job Description:

• Maintain end-to-end accountability for the health, functionality, evolution, and lifecycle of the ERP capability
• Establish and execute the ERP roadmap, balancing immediate business needs with long-term platform health
• Ensure the platform remains reliable, secure, maintainable, and capable of supporting the evolving business
• Govern platform decisions to limit unnecessary complexity, customization, and technical debt
• Develop a strong understanding of business processes and workflows enabled by the platform
• Partner with employees and functional leaders to identify friction, inefficiencies, workarounds, capability gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Lead or enable business-process improvement rather than simply implementing system requirements or automating existing processes
• Translate business priorities into platform improvements and ensure changes are adopted and produce intended business outcomes
• Maintain specialized ERP expertise for end-to-end platform ownership
• Leverage Operations & Sustainment and Innovation & Deployment capabilities where appropriate
• Manage the organization, roadmap, resources, investments, vendors, and implementation partners necessary to deliver the mission
• Provide the Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with insight into platform performance, business opportunities, risks, priorities, and investment needs
• Build an effective, engaged team by bringing together capabilities, developing people and leaders, and creating opportunities for talent across the combined Energy organization
• Shape the technology organization for the combined Leidos Energy business by bringing together Leidos and ENTRUST capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, business systems, or a related discipline and 12+ years of relevant professional experience; equivalent combination of education and experience considered
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical organizations and multidisciplinary teams, including developing technical leaders
• Demonstrated leadership of a major ERP or enterprise business platform, or comparable leadership of complex enterprise technology and the business processes it enables
• Demonstrated experience working across business functions to redesign or materially improve business processes enabled by enterprise technology—not simply implement system requirements
• Ability to translate complex business needs into technology priorities, communicate choices and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders, simplify complex environments and processes, and lead effectively across organizational boundaries
• Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline preferred
• Experience with the ERP platform and technology ecosystem used by Leidos Energy preferred
• Deep understanding of energy, utility, engineering, or another engineering-intensive business and its core operational and business processes preferred
• Experience leading significant enterprise technology or ERP modernization in a large, matrixed organization preferred