Manager, SAP Business Systems

Manager, SAP Business Systems

Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

FLSA Classification:
Exempt

Salary Range: $165,000 - $180,000 plus bonus and incentive stock options

Reports to:

Director, Data & Technology Services

About The Company:

Nine Dot's name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. As a leading community-scale, clean energy developer with a growing portfolio of projects across a range of technologies, Nine Dot Energy is creating innovative energy solutions that support a more resilient electric grid, deliver economic savings, address environmental justice and reduce carbon emissions. We plan to develop, build and operate more than 400 MW of clean energy systems by 2026 that will strengthen the local power grid infrastructure and provide clean, reliable and resilient power to tens of thousands of New York households and businesses.

This is all in support of New York State's mission to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040.

With the backing of Manulife Investment Management and The Carlyle Group - two of the world's leading infrastructure investors
- Nine Dot is continuing to expand its core battery energy storage pipeline, deliver enhanced products and services, explore new regions and consider potential acquisitions all to advance the decarbonization of New York's grid. This is an exciting opportunity to build a platform from the ground-up with a world-class team of developers and innovators.

The Manager, SAP Business Systems serves as the business owner for Nine Dot Energy's SAP S/4

HANA environment, partnering with Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, and other business teams to ensure our ERP platform effectively supports the company's continued growth.

This role manages the relationship with Nine Dot's SAP managed services provider, oversees system enhancements and governance, and drives continuous improvement across financial and operational processes. The ideal candidate combines strong business process knowledge with ERP expertise and is comfortable translating business needs into scalable system solutions while managing external vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.

This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong project management, communication, and problem-solving skills. The position is intended for a functional SAP leader rather than a technical developer or administrator, performing routine business-owned system administration while leveraging external technical experts for complex configuration and development.

• Serve as the business owner and primary administrator for Nine Dot's SAP S/4
  
  HANA platform, overseeing day-to-day operations, business-owned configuration, and master data.
• Partner with business stakeholders to define priorities, optimize SAP capabilities, and develop the SAP roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and manage implementation partners, MSP relationships, support, enhancements, and project delivery.
• Lead SAP projects from requirements through deployment, including UAT, release planning, cross-system integration testing, and production deployments.
• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, automation, documentation, and enhanced SAP functionality.
• Troubleshoot functional issues, resolve routine requests, escalate complex issues as needed, and build internal SAP expertise to reduce reliance on external consultants.
• Partner with IT to manage security, user access, governance, data integrity, internal controls, and audit support.
• Develop training materials, support end-user adoption, promote SAP best practices, and serve as the primary point of contact for business users.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Collaborates
  - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Drives Results
  - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Interpersonal Savvy
  - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Manages Ambiguity
  - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning
  - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
• Plans and Aligns
  - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Tech Savvy
  - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience supporting or managing enterprise ERP systems, including significant experience with SAP S/4
  
  HANA. Public cloud expertise preferred.
• Strong understanding of finance, accounting, procurement, and other core business processes supported by SAP.
• Experience managing third-party implementation partners and managed service providers.
• Demonstrated experience leading ERP…