Director - Strategic Applications and Architecture

This role is responsible for the strategic and operational management of strategic applications and data capabilities. The ERP landscape has gone through profound transformation over the past 2-3 years with the consolidation of 30+ ERP's onto one instance of SAP S/4 HANA and one instance of Oracle e-Business Suite. The role is critical in ensuring we deliver the expected value from our recent $50m+ investment in ERP and achieve the efficiency and effectiveness targets from the Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing functions. The Data landscape remains complex due to our historical fragmented system landscape across functions and geographies. The role will ensure that we continue to enable business efficiencies through increased levels of system integrations, and that we also support all functions in their objective to become more data driven.

Role and responsibilities

• Provide thoughts leadership and collaborate with the ITLT and senior business leaders to define, maintain, and promote a target architecture for the entire applications landscape that is both fit-for-purpose and aligned with the company's challenges and opportunities.


• Establish and lead the necessary governance to ensure all projects and programmes are aligned with the agreed target architecture. Challenge those initiatives that are not; refresh the target architecture as necessary.


• Lead or actively support accountable ITLT members in the development of robust business cases for any new ERP or Data projects, demonstrating their business benefits and their strategic alignment with the company's goals whilst adhering to agreed annual Capex targets.

Responsible for the successful technical delivery of those ERP and Data projects that have received Capital Approval Board approval.

• Responsible for i) managing ERP and Data business-as-usual activities to agreed Service Level Agreements, and ii) ensuring all change requests are approved, prioritized and delivered following the agreed governance processes that the role will need to own, mature and embed.


• Accountable for the planning and management of a multi-million dollars annual Operating Expenses budget for the ERP Centre of Excellence and Data & Integrations departments.


• Overall accountability for sustaining the relationships with and maximizing the value from ERP and Data software, projects and services providers.


Reporting Relationships

Direct: 2

Indirect: 15 plus 25+ external resources


• Proven years in IT leadership in projects and services delivery for business applications


• Extensive experience in SAP, S/4 HANA is a must. Experience in Oracle is desirable


• Management of multi-million dollars annual OpEx budget and multi-million dollars CapEx project portfolio


• University degree in Information Technology or in a related field or equivalent work experience


• Broad knowledge of ERP, business intelligence and middleware technologies and management of ERP teams


• Financial acumen to manage a multi-million dollars annual operating budget


• Advanced vendor management skills to maximise value from 3rd parties


• Strong business acumen with good understanding of the Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Commercial functions


• Calm under pressure, able to handle a fast-moving environment and ambiguity.


• Clear and confident communicator; able to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels, both internally (up to Executive Committee level) and externally (up to vendor senior leadership level)


Desirable

• Pharmaceutical / healthcare industry in a Global, 24 7 environment


• Enterprise (application) architecture


• Data architecture and governance


• Management of business intelligence teams


• Management of middleware teams


• MBA or other business related qualification (preferred)


Certifications or Designations (preferred)

• SAP S/4 HANA certification


• Oracle EBS qualification


• ITIL certification


• Project Management certification


• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certification


• Data architecture and/or Data Governance certification
  
  Mundipharma is a global healthcare company with a presence across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of Pain Management, Infectious Disease and Consumer Healthcare as well as other severe debilitating disease areas. Our guiding principles, centered around Integrity and Patients-Centricity, are at the heart of everything we do.