Director, B2B Integration and EDI

Director, B2B Integration and EDI

Req. # 25007

Job Family: BT - Business Technology

Location:

US-MA-Milford

Pay Range Minimum: USD $

Pay Range Maximum: USD $

Join Waters and Lead the Future of Digital Innovation in Life Sciences

Are you ready to help shape a global digital transformation and accelerate the growth of a multi-million-dollar B2B digital business? Waters is a world leader in life science technologies with nearly $3B in annual revenue-and our digital ecosystem is a key driver of that success.

Our platforms power eCommerce and digital services in 100+ countries and 10+ languages, supporting multiple customer segments through  and a variety of digital commerce channels including eCommerce, eProcurement, and EDI.

If you're excited by impactful work on a global scale, let's talk.

About the role
:

Waters is looking for a Technology Director, B2B Integration and EDI Platforms
-a visionary technologist and inspiring leader- who will lead the strategy, implementation, and operations of Waters' enterprise integration ecosystem-owning both the current Seeburger EDI platform and the rollout of the new Open Text B2B/EDI platform. This role ensures reliable, secure, and scalable electronic data exchange across global Order-to-Cash (O2C),
Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and supply chain processes, supporting seamless transactions with Customers, Suppliers, Financial Institutions, and Logistics Providers.

This leader will drive platform modernization, partner enablement, operational excellence, and a structured migration path from legacy technologies to a future-ready B2B Integration platform/ ecosystem.

Platform Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for B2B/EDI platforms, covering both Seeburger and Open Text
• Define modernization and migration strategy, including partner migration sequencing, testing frameworks, and cutover governance.
• Align platform architecture with enterprise integration standards, security requirements, and data governance frameworks.

Cross-Functional & Executive Leadership

• Balance the needs of the various business units, and blend them to create a seamless, state-of-the-art B2B experience
• Develop and sustain effective relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, providing insights, thought leadership and guidance on changing industry landscape and opportunities to use existing technologies.
• Serve as the primary integration technology liaison for Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Customer Operations, and Commercial teams.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, ERP teams (ECC/S4), Integration Services (middleware), and Cybersecurity to ensure platform alignment.
• Communicate platform progress, risks, and KPIs to executive stakeholders (CIO, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial leaders etc.).
• Drive change management, training, and communications across global teams.

Platform Implementation, Support and Optimization

• Lead the end-to-end design, build, and deployment of the Open Text platform.
• Partner with Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Finance, and Supply Chain leaders to define functional requirements and transaction flows.
• Establish integration patterns (EDI, API, hybrid), partner onboarding processes, and service-level expectations.
• Oversee vendor resources, technical teams, and project delivery milestones.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, reliability, and enhancement of the EDI platforms.
• Ensure stability, monitoring, and performance optimization during the coexistence period.
• Lead incident response, problem management, and transaction exception reduction for Seeburger-based integrations.

People and Financial Management

• Attract, retain, and develop top technical talent with deep expertise in B2B and EDI engineering.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to engineers, promoting growth in architectural thinking, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Manage and maintain department budget and forecast and ensure initiatives meet budget guidelines.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience with EDI/B2B integration platforms, including Seeburger, Open Text, GXS, and similar.
• Strong understanding of O2C and P2P business processes and related EDI transactions (e.g., 850, 810, 855, 856, 820).
• Proven experience leading large integration programs, platform transitions, or modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated leadership across cross-functional global teams and external trading partners.
• Experience integrating with SAP Commerce and/or S/4
  
  HANA.
• Experience leading efforts in agile/scrum environments with knowledge of project planning, staffing, and estimating in an agile software development process.
• Strong verbal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify issues, solve them quickly.

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