Senior Director of Enterprise Applications

As a Senior Director of Enterprise Applications, the ideal candidate will be a member of our leadership team who will be responsible for the management of system delivery and support. The Senior Director of Enterprise Applications will be comfortable building and leading a team responsible for the deployment and maintenance of these applications, including SAP and other core systems of record.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Responsible for delivering innovative IT solutions across all portfolio companies
• Create governance policies to ensure that ongoing change management activities are successfully planned and executed in a timely, cost-effective manner
• champion ongoing department wide process improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and IT leaders to ensure a seamless delivery of enterprise applications across the firm
• Partner with internal business leaders to define the needs and priorities of the firm while determining the best use of internal and external resources
• Communicate effectively to make sure priorities are defined and aligned with business goals
• Responsible for the daily support of SAP and its ancillary data integration and other key enterprise applications
• Negotiates contractual agreements with external professional service provider.
• Influence the future enterprise application direction
• Proactively manages any system outages and provides clear root cause analysis reports.
• Responsible for providing high quality customer service to business departments (internal customers) at all levels

SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE / ABILITIES

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• Demonstrated experience in managing projects of high complexity to successful completion while maintaining success across multiple concurrent projects
• Able to manage the flow of incoming invoices and track actuals to budgeted goals for efficient status updates.
• Expert-level knowledge with administering an enterprise-wide SAP environment (and open to considering the latest cloud-based products for future application deliveries)
• Experience managing IT projects with deep understanding of how technology can enable business processes and results
• Excellent customer service skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and good interpersonal skills
• Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to diplomatically push back and educate leaders at all levels
• Ability to be an advocate for new enterprise solutions or applications that will help boost the business’ objective
• Excellent planning and organizing skills, and efficient time management ability.
• Demonstrated thought leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strategic thinking, roadmap development and delivery
• Formal and informal People Leadership
• Complex Problem Solving
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

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• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field of study
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology delivery and support, with 4+ years in a leadership role
• Strong knowledge of systems implementation and support best practices, standards, and frameworks
• Proven track record and experience in developing information technology systems, policies and procedures, as well as successfully executing programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic business environment
• Financial Services industry experience strongly preferred
• Extensive experience with packaged and custom systems development and support; deep expertise with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar) required

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

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• Professional project management certification highly desirable (PMP or similar)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

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The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms. The employee is rarely required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EEOC

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777 Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All aspects of consideration for employment and employment with the Company are governed on the bases of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.