Director Of Business Systems

An excellent opportunity to lead, design, and shape a complex enterprise systems environment. You will spearhead a strategic, multi-year transformation to consolidate legacy ERP systems into a unified IFS Cloud platform, while establishing and owning the future enterprise architecture strategy.

• Lead the immediate transition and consolidation of legacy ERP environments into a single IFS Cloud platform.
• Own the long-term strategic direction, governance, and continuous roadmap evolution to maximise future system value.
• Define and maintain the future‑state enterprise architecture, ensuring all core business applications and systems align with long‑term business strategy.
• Oversee integration architecture, data flows, and system connectivity to ensure a clean, simplified application landscape during and after the migration.
• Drive improvements in reporting, data visibility, and analytics by standardising master data structures across the newly unified environment.
• Ensure systems remain secure, stable, compliant, and aligned to business needs throughout the transition period.
• Lead the internal business systems team and coordinate delivery across external technical partners, software vendors, and system integrators.
• Act as the strategic advisor and go-to expert for complex ERP, enterprise architecture, and application challenges.

• Strong background working with ERP platforms, including specific expertise in IFS implementations or IFS Cloud environments.
• Proven experience leading large‑scale ERP consolidation or transformation projects, ideally migrating from multiple legacy systems to a single platform.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture principles, application mapping, and landscape simplification.
• Extensive experience operating across integrated systems, with strong knowledge of APIs, middleware, and complex data migration strategies.
• Exposure to cloud‑based ERP upgrades, evergreen release cycles, and ongoing platform improvement.
• Strong familiarity with reporting, data standardisation, and enterprise analytics tools.
• Thorough understanding of security, access control, compliance, and risk mitigation during major system transitions.
• Experience leading business systems teams and managing strategic relationships with external suppliers and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Deep alignment with core enterprise workflows and business processes such as finance, supply chain, and manufacturing.