Group Manager: Enterprise Resource Planning

September 18, 2024

Aspen Pharma Group

Durban North

FULL TIME

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.

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, Gx P, ISO 9000)
Business Process Management Methodology (i.e., BPM, SDLC, ITIL, Dev Ops, 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

Aspen Competencies:
Business:

Accountability/ Ownership

People:

Communicate Effectively

Self:

Take Action with Integrity

Aspen is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups through a fair recruitment and selection process in line with Aspen’s Transformation Agenda.
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