Enterprise Resources Planning Specialist

We are looking for a D365 F&O Architect – SCM - Sales & Commercial to be a functional/technical leader for our client's Microsoft D365 SCM global program.

This is a Direct Hire role. Candidates cannot require Sponsorship to be considered. The position is Open to remote work but if you do not live in St Louis area or in a city with one of the company's facilities then there will be travel involved.

The Architect’s role is highly collaborative, leading the systems design for their domain, working closely with Solutions Analysts and the other domain Architects to develop and implement the future business systems. The role is a fundamental part of the company’s new ERP Center of Excellence (CoE) group.

• Lead the IT Sales & Commercial domain.
• Analyze, research, plan, and design for the environment within the Sales & Commercial domain ensuring that business needs are met, coordinating within the broader group of Solutions Architects to ensure an integrated, coherent approach to the whole systems design.
• Work closely with your counterparts within the business to provide architectural and application expertise including setting up an Account Code Structure and module configuration from scratch and provide guidance to be applied to the entire spectrum of the Sales & Commercial systems implementation.
• Govern the design standards for the domain ensuring that we reuse standard systems setup and processes, evaluate requests for modification working closely with Solutions Analysts, business leaders to approve, modify or reject changes.
• Collaborate closely with our external partners to ensure that we optimize the technical landscape and that we are fully aware of external changes and developments that we need to work with to secure an ongoing robust landscape.
• Ensure that design processes are established, followed, that the design is appropriately documented, and that test plans are developed.
• Assist users in testing and adoption of process improvements, working closely with Business Partners and Solutions Analysts.
• Assemble appropriate documentation to support process change. Where needed originate training aids or standard operating procedures.
• Provide project support where required for new implementations/rollouts.
• Support for continuous process improvements.
• Provide support to the systems architecture team when needed, especially regarding the installation of significant upgrades from our software solution suppliers.

• Bachelor’s degree required in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

• Must have 6+ years direct experience leading the architecture, configuration, and development for the Sales & Commercial domain of D365 Finance & Operations in a multi-national company. It is preferred that the person fulfilling this role has strong experience in the following areas:
  New equipment, Aftermarket, and Service Parts sales.
• Experience in both the Engineer and Configure to order sales processes.
• Project-based manufacturing, work breakdown structures.
• Logistics planning – Factory Acceptance Testing, teardown, and installations.
• Customer invoicing, in particular management of a progress billing cycle.
• Must have direct experience of the full ERP implementation cycle, from initial needs analysis, through rollout and stabilization.
• Must have direct experience of leveraging and integrating enterprise level systems, inclusive of ERP, Business Intelligence, and Consolidation Systems.
• Experience in systems governance for the domain and the ability to work with others to establish the development process and controls.
• Experience of leveraging SAAS based systems to deliver value
• Experience working with the following D365 ISV or equivalent tools is preferred:
  Bluestar Product Life Cycle Management
• Axtension Project Control
• SK Global
• Certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manufacturing professionals are preferred, however not mandatory.
• Fluent in all Microsoft Office
  365 applications, including Power BI.

• Ability to research and select appropriate technologies and partners, working with commercial, legal, and technical teams.
• Excellent ability to collaborate and engage with IT leadership, business customers and external third parties.
• Strong commercial acumen to support the assessment of options and vendors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Must be able to work across all IT technical platforms to coordinate joint resolution of business problems.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing others.