IKO Looking for Senior Manager, ERP at Ontario Full Time

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you!

Job Description

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive salary

• Competitive health and benefit plan

• Competitive matched retirement savings program

• The opportunity to join a continuously growing organization with focus on Diversity and Inclusion

• The opportunity to work with an industry leader in manufacturing

WHEN YOU JOIN US YOU WILL BE;

Position Summary:

HSS’s Global IT Function is committed to enabling our business to successfully utilize technology to attain company goals and execute on our vision of setting the technology standard in our industry. Our Global IT team plays a critical role in ensuring solutions development and delivery excellence and an engaging customer experience, while demonstrating HSS’s Values of Sharing Knowledge, Integrity, Long-Term Thinking, Performance, Humility and Agility.

The HSS Global IT department is looking for a passionate, inquisitive, detail oriented and customer focused Senior Manager, ERP to join our growing team.

The Senior Manager, ERP role will manage an ERP team consisting of internal and external resources. The role will work directly with business executives, IS/IT leadership team to define long-term enterprise technology strategies and roadmap. The role reports to the Director, Global ERP. The role will be based out of Mississauga, Ontario and will require some travel to Europe and across North America.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

People Management & Leadership

• Lead and provide mentorship to the team to ensure they meet their operational and development goals.

• Continuously identify and close skills and knowledge gaps of team members

• Manage performance of direct reports. Set appropriate context and establish prescribed limits for subordinates, including setting an effective framework of policies and procedures for the work in the team.

• Act as a mentor for team members by providing effective coaching to maximize performance, promote accountability, build shared knowledge and enhance the team environment.

• Build a high performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by foresting an inclusive work environment and using coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning.

Relationship Management

• Develop strong and successful relationships with key contacts at all levels of the organization including Business Operations, Systems and Executives to ensure internal/external client and stakeholders’ needs are not only met, but often exceeded.

• Coordinate with process owners to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and consistency across all Programs, Project and Release delivery processes.

• Facilitate information flow among business & IS/IT groups to gather/share information that will enhance Program, Project and Release delivery capabilities.

• Act as the escalation point for issues relating to operational issues and supplier performance or deviations from original work estimates etc. Taking appropriate actions to resolve the issues

Application Strategy

• Develop a strategic roadmap for the ERP platforms in scope (BusinessCentral, Navision, SAP, etc.) and any other applications that integrate with ERP; including a roadmap to consolidate the number of ERP platforms in use today

• Act as the systems advocate for the design and build of solutions that promote agility, business capability, operability and efficiency.

• Ensure effective cost management for each application and develop / manage budgets for application support & related activities.

• Manage the prioritization and mitigation of all risks related to the ongoing operation of the application and deployment of new changes

Project Management

• Manage projects involving the ERP platforms in scope using combination of Waterfall and Agile methodologies

• Create and lead a Project Management Office to coordinate all projects in this domain

• Hire and lead internal and external project managers to deliver project in the domain roadmap

Solutions Architecture

• Define and drive solutions architecture principals, software development life cycle and software development methodologies to keep in line with strategic enterprise systems technology plans to support current and anticipated business needs.

• Assess industry and technology solutions to establish optimum systems architecture supporting advancement of the company objectives

• Evaluate short-term or long-term priorities, and develop actionable plans

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, clients, solution vendors and end users to identify business requirements and translate these into technical specifications and systems architecture

• Leverage external industry knowledge, standards and advances to further internal objectives

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE;

• 10+ years of experience as an Application/Solution Architect, and managing ERP teams consisting of Functional, programmers, and administrators

• 10+ years of experience in a multi-location, global environment

• PMP certification and MBA will be considered an asset

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or other business-related field is preferred.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral

• Proficiency in business English

• Proven ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines; changing course and direction as needed

• Ability to develop strong client relationship at the Executive level (Director/VP/CXO levels) in relevant market and leveraging them to assess potential sales opportunities

• Ability to influence stakeholders and building consensus

• Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment

• Ability to motivate / manage a team of 10-15 direct reports

• Ability to manage a team with a diversity of cultures and people on remote locations and to stimulate collaboration is such an environment

• Proven success at managing change projects with ability to problem solve at detailed level and keep helicopter view

• Self-motivated and driven approach with strong result orientation

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Benefits of Employment: IKO recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. A primary goal of IKO is to promote individual employee’s sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with IKO. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, IKO. We are pleased to offer competitive compensation, health care, a progressive and challenging workplace and a commitment to teamwork and integrity.

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment: IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

IKO is a leading manufacturer of residential and commercial roofing systems operating in Canada, the United States and multiple global markets. Our 70+ years of success has been enabled by the dedication of our employees. We would welcome the opportunity to consider you for one of our great opportunities!

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