SAP IT Director

CTH SAP IT Director - Telecommute
Optum Frontier Therapies ("OFT")/Optum Specialty Distribution ("OSD") technology team is part of OptumRxIT and is dedicated to technical solutions that support the OFT and OSD business. The SAP IT Director will be a member of the technology leadership team supporting these two exciting new businesses serving patients, pharma manufacturers, pharmacies, and providers by distributing and servicing therapies at the frontier of healthcare.? The successful candidate will partner with our vendors and internal technology teams to lead the initial implementation and support SAP products to provide end to end supply chain efficiencies, quality, and value for pharmaceutical partnerships and to inform the planning for future organizational design and growth.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within United States as you take on some tough challenges.
Job Responsibilities:

• Primary accountability for successful deployment of ERP and supporting product roadmaps by collaborating with vendors, internal technology teams and business stakeholders
• Provide leadership and providing expertise on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Advanced Track and Trace (ATTP), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Business Technology Platform (BTP), Information Collaboration Hub (ICH), Vistex, 3rd party applications installed or integrated with SAP, such as Axway/EDI
• Own technology relationship with SAP and related software vendors
• Manage internal distribution technology team, including transforming existing team members into distribution/SAP SMEs, bringing in outside talent with SAP expertise, defining roles and responsibilities for technology team
• Collaborate with business and operations to define and govern software configurations, releases, and support process
• Develops a robust understanding of business, market, and customer needs and can leverage that knowledge to propose and drive new or improved solutions to business partners
• Establishes partnerships across business and technology stakeholders to ensure the right problems are being solved the right way to meet customer needs.
• Recommends ways to mitigate interdependencies
• Shares learnings with others to influence change
• Effectively communicates with business stakeholders and technical team
• Initiates opportunities and influences stakeholders with ideas that drive business value
• Influences stakeholders to assess and manage the impacts of changes and drive decision making
• Champions compliance with security standards and regulations
• Pro-actively identifies and addresses security gaps in solution design and delivery
• Explores possibilities to discover unknowns (looks for what you can't see)
• Coaches and provides feedback to others on development of problem-solving skills
• Identifies checks and balances to confirm effectiveness of solution
• Leads quality improvement processes
• Drives a quality culture by example, encouraging quality practices in others
• Initiates and implements strategies to embed quality practices in culture
• Oversee technical system availability, including coordinating patching and upgrades, security, and DR scenario readiness
• Collaborate with broader technology organization for infrastructure, architecture and operational support

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 15 years' experience leading IT ERP, SAP Teams, Projects, and Function for complex and highly regulated organization
• Must have end-to-end technical leadership experience of large SAP, SAP S/4 HANA, ERP teams for all functional application software technology services, especially implementing greenfield
• Demonstrated ability to drive the IT organization to deliver strategic initiatives and transformations within the expected time, budget, and quality standards by providing the right tools, methodologies, and guidance, and by managing the delivery through IS, the business and external partners
• Superior business, SAP/ERP functional acumen is needed, including industry trends
• Experience working in fast growing companies scaling corporate systems on foundational systems and processes

Preferred :

• Experience with SAP add-ons such as EWM, ICH, BTP, Vistex and ATTP strongly preferred
• Knowledge of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and EDI
• A technology leader with the outstanding ability to articulate vision, drive collaboration, reach consensus, and achieve alignment with cross-functional teams and parties with diverse interests
• Adept at inspiring behavior change through motivating teams, planning initiatives, designating priorities, and being decisive when faced with ambiguity
• Willingness to be hands-on, dive into the details, and champion technology improvements
• Strong communication, people leadership and fearless ways to bring teams together for common effective delivery
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement and expectation management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written formats with customers, employees, stakeholders, and vendors at all levels

Required Skills : • Come from heavy configuration background • Not Big 4 implementation background • S/4 HANA is a must • Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) piece
Basic Qualification : • Wants this resource to be more recently hands on since this will be a small team - maybe someone with all the leadership would be too much o Configuration experience o S4/Hana is the newest product - supposed to be easier to deal with o She will take Hana experience over greenfield implementation o Want actual implementation experience • Director level range but comfy with hands-on, emerging talent in leadership category • SAP implementation experience is a must • Challenge is the greenfield of S4/hana - can have some flex here (not a no go)
Additional Skills : • Wants this resource to be more recently hands on since this will be a small team - maybe someone with all the leadership would be too much o Configuration experience o S4/Hana is the newest product - supposed to be easier to deal with o She will take Hana experience over greenfield implementation o Want actual implementation experience • Director level range but comfy with hands-on, emerging talent in leadership category • SAP implementation experience is a must • Challenge is the greenfield of S4/hana - can have some flex here (not a no go)
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :Yes
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project :Integration
Master Job Title :Mgmt: Applications
Branch Code :Minneapolis