Director, IT Strategy & ERP Programs; Milwaukee, WI

Position: Director, IT Strategy & ERP Programs (Milwaukee, WI, US)
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Title:

Director, IT Strategy & ERP Programs

Job Function:
Digital

Location:

JUNEAU

Workplace Category:

Hybrid

Company:
Harley-Davidson Motor Company

Full or Part-Time:
Full Time

Shift: SHIFT1

At Harley-Davidson, we are building more than machines. It's our passion and commitment to continue the evolution of this storied brand, and heighten the desirability of the Harley-Davidson experience. To keep building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution, and emotion we need the best and brightest talent. We stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul.

Are you ready to join us?

Harley-Davidson Motor Company, founded in a humble Milwaukee backyard shed in 1903, still calls the city home. Today, its Corporate Campus includes a 4.8-acre public park-a welcoming green space open to all. Join our team as a Dir ERP Programs.

The Director of IT Strategy & ERP Programs is responsible for the multi-year strategic program that involves business transformation and driving end-to-end productivity across the entire value chain. The program entails both technology and business process transformation across several business units including commercial, dealer channels, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and corporate finance.

This senior leader will be responsible for managing the overall ERP program and all the work streams, working with both business and technology stakeholders to ensure overall program scope and requirements are captured using agile methodologies and drive value delivery throughout the program. The leader will provide oversight functions for solution design, configuration and development tasks that include not only the technology architecture but also the related business processes and information management required for the design and successful implementation.

In addition, this role leads IT strategy and operating model activities, partnering closely with the IT leadership team to drive enterprise-wide alignment on priorities, planning, governance, and financial management. The role acts as a central point of integration across IT portfolios to ensure consistent execution, transparency, and alignment to business outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

* Provide oversight to the project work streams to develop solutions that facilitate continuous productivity, capacity, and quality improvement across all dimensions.

* Design and develop projects and work streams within the program in alignment with the organization's strategic plans and objectives.

* Ensure ERP design and configuration work is being conducted based on a holistic solution design and architecture that encompasses the right level of business, functional and technical requirements.

* Provide oversight and leadership for the implementation of the program deliverables. Coordinate the contributions of external consultants, business functional leads, project managers, as well as business and IT leaders, and field SMEs from Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Commercial, and other business units across the organization.

* Responsible for effectively conducting day-to-day ERP program management discipline and manage the overall program budget across all the work streams/projects, while partnering with Finance to ensure alignment to the broader IT budget and investment plan.

* Understand business drivers and business capabilities (current and future state) and facilitate the design and implementation of the right solution architecture to drive the expected business outcomes.

* In close partnership with business leadership, this position is responsible for the implementation of standardized global business processes across the organization.

* Utilize proven approaches to implement new business capability or improve operational performance through entire program lifecycle from charter definition to benefit realization.

* Manage and resolve complex business issues arising from the implementation of new processes or procedures, escalating decisions as appropriate to IT and Business Leadership as needed.

* Look broadly across the organization to understand where opportunities are best fit and translate findings to project cost and customer impact.

* Ensure change management is being effectively planned and managed by ensuring the global stakeholder's engagement and adequate level of communication; identify the training needs early on and ensure successful implementation and drive adoption of the change.

* Responsible for creating and maintaining all program level artifacts including steering committee meetings, program metrics, status reports, meetings, project plans, etc. and providing appropriate periodic updates on the program for both executives and business stakeholders.

* Design and track metrics and key performance indicators at the program level and for each workstream/project.

* Lead the coordination of annual IT strategic planning and operating plans by integrating inputs from CIO direct reports into a single…