Director, SAP Modernization Delivery

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Venez faire votre différence dans les communautés à travers le Canada, où l'authenticité, la confiance et l'établissement de liens sont valorisés - alors que nous façonnons l'avenir du commerce de détail au Canada, ensemble. Notre position unique en tant que l'un des plus grands employeurs du pays, celle associée à notre engagement à avoir un impact positif sur la vie de tous les Canadiens, viens offrir à nos collègues une gamme d'opportunités et d'expériences pour aider les Canadiens à Vivre Bien, Vivre Pleinement.

Chez Les Compagnies Loblaw Limitée, nous réussissons grâce à la collaboration, à l'engagement et nous plaçons la barre haute pour nous-mêmes et ceux qui nous entourent. Que vous débutiez votre carrière, que vous réintégriez le marché du travail ou que vous recherchiez un nouvel emploi, votre place est avec nous.

Director, SAP Modernization Delivery

Please note Loblaw's Return to Office Policy, is 4 days in the office

The Opportunity:

Canada's largest food retailer is looking for a Director to join an Agile team environment to help build the plan and strategies for the accelerated plans to enable the SAP transformation program. This position provides the opportunity to engage and work with various business stakeholders across Loblaw Technology and the vendor community.  As a leader you will oversee the focus areas of the team which include program governance, release management, stability and continuous improvement streams.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the optimal and seamless execution of the ERP modernization program while supporting and developing the strategy and vision for the future capabilities. Our goal is to modernize and enhance the ERP and ensure we are adding value when touching each functional area. The technical changes should be the trigger for review of processes and customizations and drive to a more simplistic design and process that is closer to standard functionality (ie: “SAP Clean Core Approach”). This role consists of owning and managing cross functional streams and influencing the sequence and priority of streams of work. The candidate will be required to implement strong diligence and processes that allow for the development of plans while executing with precision and authority. This will include continuous improvement opportunities, process and technology adoption while ensuring enterprise-wide change management & communication plans are in place and executed.
 

What You'll Do:

• Build and manage the relationship with the business owners to ensure awareness and knowledge of the application landscape and strategic vision.

• Build a scalable management process that allows for appropriate planning and execution of streams of work that may be outside of direct accountability

• Advocate for capability roadmap for continuous value add features while ensuring timelines can be met and value achieved

• Prepare strategy, documentation, presentations and make recommendations for other technical/functional aspects related to the application roadmap

• Review and understand new and innovative ways to implement solutions. Able to translate between the application available features and business needs – influence and educate the business on options and value to implement with success.

• Lead and coordinate meetings and discussions internally within Loblaw Technology and with business stakeholders to help drive the prioritization and plan.

• Lead a support team through break fix, release cycles and ad hoc support to ensure stable operations.

• Build partnerships with business leads to develop strategy and sequencing of improvements and recommendations, as well as align internal and vendor plans to deliver value.

• Lead and coordinate within Loblaw Technology and with business stakeholders find synergies and identify overlap or competing priorities in the plan.

• Support reporting and analytics to understand and interpret the data to provide outputs and value through the data

• Build strategic plans and work to review application roadmaps to align internal strategy to the vendor strategies.

• Support cross functional teams and projects while being able to collaborate and provide insights across the teams.

• Develop and process maps and day in the life of storyboarding to help influence decisions and projects while keeping the experience top of mind

• A continuous improvement and proactive mindset to push the business forward

• Ability to manage risks, issues & conflict resolution and improve team dynamics

• Skilled in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques. Exceptional organization and Jira hands on experience is required.

• Guide, coach and motivate the team from a distance to be highly effective, self-organized, productive and accountable, with an emphasis on exceeding expectations

• Provides recommendations and best practices based on market intelligence and research to deliver on the best possible end user experience

• Proactively manage expectations to cope with changing and conflicting priorities

• Remain current with innovations and creative solutions to provide process efficiencies / automation

• Ability to influence without authority and provide insights and well thought out messages that resonate with the team

• Be on site during cutovers and critical timeframes to better understand both pain points and value add processes. Understand workflows to advise and influence change where required.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience in managing large, complex technology programs and projects with multiple stakeholders

• Experience in complex SAP ECC to SAP S/4 migrations and/or experience implementing new S/4 solutions

• 5+ years in technology leadership experience

• Collaborative approach

• Hands on experience building and communicating roadmaps and strategies

• Strong understanding of best practices and ability to understand how new innovations, enhancements and platforms can contribute to a positive experience

• Understand how to apply the interpretation of data to enhance / optimize the tools & end user experience.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to learn new skills and apply them quickly and efficiently.

• Ability to lead conversations and discussions to outcomes and impacts

• Strong communication, leadership and teamwork skills that will help drive teams to reach full potential

• Understands project and portfolio management and can see big picture / macro level insights to sequence and deliver in a logical way

• Understanding of workflows and data / process mapping.

• Ability to think creatively to solve problem and / or proactively implement solutions for expected issue

• Experience developing and implementing strategic change plans, governance models and technology roadmaps

• Ability to consolidate and simplify complex problems into a recommendation and / or plan

Nice-To-Haves:

• Experience in Retail environment preferred

• Post-Secondary Degree/Diploma in a related discipline.

• MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint, Jira

Industry or consulting experience r

Notre engagement envers la durabilité et l'impact social est un élément essentiel de notre façon de faire des affaires. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les domaines où nous pouvons avoir le plus grand impact. Notre approche de la durabilité et de l'impact social repose sur trois piliers - l'environnement, l'approvisionnement et la communauté.  Nous recherchons constamment des moyens de faire preuve de leadership dans ces domaines importants. Nos valeurs ÊTRE – Engagement, Tient à coeur, Respect et Excellence – guident toutes nos prises de décision et prennent vie à travers notre culture bleue. Nous offrons à nos collègues des carrières progressives, une formation complète, de la flexibilité ainsi que les nombreux avantages compétitifs - voici quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles nous sommes classés au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs du Canada, au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour la diversité au Canada, au palmarès des employeurs les plus verts au Canada et au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour les jeunes au Canada.

Si vous ne savez pas si votre expérience correspond à toutes les exigences ci-dessus, nous vous encourageons à postuler quand même. Nous recherchons des perspectives de candidatures variées, qui incluent des expériences diverses que nous pouvons ajouter à notre équipe.

Nous nous concentrons depuis longtemps sur la diversité, l'équité et l'inclusion, car nous savons que cela fera de notre entreprise un meilleur lieu de travail et de magasinage. Nous nous engageons à créer des environnements accessibles pour nos collègues, candidats et clients. Les demandes d'aménagement en raison d'un handicap (qui peut être visible ou pas, temporaire ou permanent) peuvent être faites à n'importe quel stade de la demande et de l'emploi. Nous encourageons les candidats à faire connaître leurs besoins en matière d'accommodation afin que nous puissions offrir des opportunités équitables.
 
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