ERP Platforms Lead; Director

Position: ERP Platforms Lead (Director)
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
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** Job Description**# The principal purpose of the ERP Platform Lead role is to direct the creation of value through enterprise resource planning applications through quality, performance and value-driven governance thus aligning our ERP platforms function across the business to promote and facilitate optimisation, stability, security, and efficiency.
You’ll be responsible for direct management of Brambles ERP technologies and teams while driving platform strategies considering business priorities and external market innovation in the function. Brambles core ERP applications are the backbone of the organization supporting Finance, Inventory Management, Supply Chain and other critical business functions. As part of this role, the ERP Platforms Lead is accountable for the day-to-day execution of platform services including development, data governance, platform support, and strategic direction across the Brambles landscape.
You'll be accountable for the evaluation and monitoring of all ERP services required, linking the business benefits created by resilient, responsive, and stable platform usage consumed by a growing Brambles global business user base. In addition, you will be accountable to collaborate with the wider TS organization (primarily the Finance, Supply Chain function) on portfolio demand and delivery performance metrics.
You will maintain, incorporate, and provide facilitation of governance methods, standards, and principles across all processes and capabilities relative to SAP ERP platforms. These methods, standards, and principles will be developed, adopted, and embedded by the wider platform, product and analytics teams across all business units looking to integrate ERP data with complimentary systems and people. Governance processes and practices include as a minimum: ERP service management, vendor selection and management, risk management, ERP technologies roadmap and platform management (upgrades and modernization), service catalogue, project support, and reporting.  

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** Key Responsibilities May Include:
*** Define and implement a platform strategy that is aligned with overall strategic ambitions and prioritization of the business
* Own and manage the ongoing relationship with existing and potential technology partners and vendors relating to your suite of platform(s)
* Partner with the business and other team members to capture, understand and solution any additional functional requirements or enhancements
* Identify and lead execution of process improvement or automation opportunities across the organisation in general and across your platform portfolio in particular
* Provide end to end oversight of initiatives, with accountability for planning and implementation through to configuration including project management, support and issue management
* Lead the market research and recommendation of new platforms, software and training, ensuring business cases are built to warrant investment.
** Major/Key Accountabilities
*** Provide strong leadership and direction by setting clear objectives and priorities with alignment with the Finance and Supply Chain programme functions by defining SAP ERP platform services, strategies, and roadmaps and communicating to applicable ERP audiences.
* Constructively partners with functional business leadership and other key stakeholders to shape strategy, identify opportunities, leverage industry trends, develop, deliver, and implement value-added solutions that drive financial effectiveness, simplification and/or and improve ERP services.
* Develop delivery best practices and principles, and a culture of service excellence across Technology Services, Data & Digital, Finance, Supply Chain, and the wider organisation.
* Advise and provide…