Group Manager: Enterprise Resource Planning Platforms (Durban North) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description

• Leads the development of ERP architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Leads the development of ERP architectures in specific business, and functional areas and where relevant the ERP infrastructure.
• Defines ERP systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans.
• Takes full responsibility for business analysis within the regulatory application segment of the organisation where the advice given, and decisions made will have a measurable impact on the profitability or effectiveness of the organisation.
• Leads the selection of appropriate business analysis methods, tools, techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
• Establishes the contribution that ERP technology can make to business objectives, defining strategies, validating and justifying business needs, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level and detailed business models, preparing business cases, overseeing development and implementation of ERP solutions, taking into account the implications of change on the organisation and all stakeholders
• Guides senior management towards accepting change brought about through process and organisational change.

Requirements

Education:

• Matric / Grade 12
• B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
• Experience and sound knowledge of business processes, quality management and enterprise solution design practices and improvement practices
• 10+ years’ experience managing customer relationships in an operational and global services and automation in a large complex/matrix global organisation
• 10+ years’ experience leading and influencing customers and matching needs to solutions

Certifications: 

• Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, GxP, ISO 9000)
• Business Process Management Methodology (i.e., BPM, SDLC, ITIL, DevOps, Agile, COBIT)

Skills and Attributes:

• Innovation
• Visioning
• Strategic planning
• Global thinking
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Teamwork
• Initiative
• Results oriented
• Systems thinking
• Focused
• Problem-solving and good judgment
• Responsibility and accountability
• Cooperation
• Proactive
• Resilience
• Active listening skills
• Presentation skills
• Meeting facilitation
• Organisational awareness
• Influence skills
• Pragmatic
• Empathy