Job Description
The Director – Enterprise Solutions (SAP) will be responsible for owning and leading Kimbal’s SAP landscape across the enterprise. This role will define SAP strategy, governance, architecture, and execution to enable scalable growth, operational excellence, and data-driven decision‑making across manufacturing, supply chain, projects, finance, HR, and commercial functions.
The role will act as the single-point owner for SAP, ensuring system stability, business adoption, process standardization, and continuous improvement while partnering closely with business leaders and the CIO to drive enterprise transformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise SAP strategy aligned with Kimbal’s business and digital roadmap.
- Act as the overall owner of SAP landscape including SAP S/4HANA, ECC, and integrated solutions.
- Lead SAP implementations, rollouts, upgrades, migrations, and enhancement programs across functions.
- Drive standardization and optimization of end‑to‑end business processes across Finance, SCM, manufacturing, projects, and HR through SAP.
- Establish strong SAP governance, solution architecture standards, and change management frameworks.
- Partner with business leaders to translate functional requirements into scalable SAP solutions.
- Ensure system stability, performance, data integrity, and compliance across the SAP environment.
- Lead SAP vendor ecosystem including system integrators, AMS partners, and technology vendors.
- Own SAP program budgets, timelines, delivery quality, and ROI realization.
- Drive user adoption, training, and continuous improvement to maximize business value from SAP.
- Ensure seamless integration of SAP with surrounding systems such as MES, WMS, PLM, BI, and third‑party applications.
- Build, mentor, and lead high‑performing SAP functional, technical, and support teams.
- Scaling SAP systems to support rapid business growth and multi‑location operations.
- Driving process standardization while balancing business flexibility.
- Improving SAP adoption, data quality, and user experience across functions.
- Managing complex integrations and minimizing business disruption during change.
- Transitioning SAP from a transactional system to a strategic business enabler.
Success Metrics
- Stable, scalable, and well‑governed SAP landscape.
- Successful delivery of SAP programs on time, within budget, and with high business adoption.
- Improved process efficiency, data accuracy, and decision‑making through SAP.
- High user satisfaction and reduced dependency on manual workarounds.
- Strong internal SAP capability and leadership bench.
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
- MBA or Master’s degree in Information Systems / Operations is preferred.
Experience
- 15–20+ years of experience in SAP leadership roles, with ownership of enterprise SAP programs.
- Proven experience leading large-scale SAP implementations and transformation initiatives.
- Strong exposure to SAP in manufacturing, supply chain, and project‑driven environments.
Functional & Leadership Skills
- Deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA / ECC across key modules (FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, WM/EWM, PS).
- Strong understanding of SAP architecture, integrations, data governance, and security.
- Proven ability to translate business processes into standardized SAP solutions.
- Experience leading internal SAP teams and managing SI / AMS partners.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership.
Why Kimbal?
At Kimbal, SAP is a foundational platform enabling scale, operational discipline, and enterprise visibility. As Director – Enterprise Solutions (SAP), you will play a critical role in shaping how SAP powers manufacturing excellence, supply chain reliability, and financial transparency across the organization.
Kimbal offers a high‑ownership environment where senior leaders are empowered to build enterprise platforms from the ground up, influence business strategy, and drive meaningful transformation at scale.
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