Director, Corporate Business Applications

Director, Corporate Business Applications

The Director, Corporate Business Applications is accountable for defining and executing the global enterprise applications strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term growth objectives. Reporting to the VP Applications Services, this role provides leadership across a diverse applications portfolio, including ERP, CRM, CLM, and proprietary platforms, while guiding senior leaders and global teams through complex transformation initiatives.

A core mandate of this role is to lead and refine the enterprise applications consolidation and modernization strategy, validating roadmaps, supporting product selection, sequencing global deployments, and balancing near-term optimization with long-term investment.

What You Will Do:

• Define and execute the end-to-end enterprise applications strategy (current and future state), including roadmap, implementation, optimization, and lifecycle management across ERP and other core platforms.
• Lead global enterprise application implementations and enhancements, ensuring on-time delivery, budget discipline, quality outcomes, and strong stakeholder engagement.
• Oversee the stability, performance, security, and operational support of the enterprise applications ecosystem, including upgrades, integrations, vendor management, and incident/problem management.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for non-ERP enterprise platforms (e.g., CRM, CLM, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal), ensuring fit-for-purpose capability, process alignment, and a scalable global support model.
• Partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor to identify opportunities, drive adoption, and deliver measurable business value; innovate on and identify opportunities and educate the business where modern technology solutions can add value or achieve stated goals.
• Build and lead a high-performing, global Enterprise Applications organization, including talent development, performance management, and budgeting.
• Drive process improvement, automation, and data-driven decision-making through improved analytics, reporting, and governance.
• Establish strong governance, compliance, and SDLC disciplines while fostering effective collaboration between IT and business teams.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience

• Experience: 15+ years of IT experience, including 8+ years in senior IT leadership roles with strong people management responsibility in complex, global environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Management, Program Management, Product Management or a related field.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience: 15+ years of IT experience, including 8+ years in senior IT leadership roles with strong people management responsibility in complex, global environments.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field required
• Transformation Leadership: Proven success leading large-scale enterprise applications transformations (ERP and non-ERP) in dynamic, multi-region organizations, including process standardization, change management, and adoption.
• Enterprise Applications Expertise: Deep experience leading, implementing, and supporting enterprise application platforms through full SDLC lifecycles and complex integrations/data migrations
• Business & Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes across finance, HR, and operations, with the ability to translate between business and technical stakeholders.
• Enterprise Platforms: Expertise in system integrations, cloud-based enterprise platforms, and adjacent systems such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and modern data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Databricks preferred).
• Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental Management System.

It Would Be Nice If You Had

Professional or chartered engineer license.

Reporting Relationships:

The incumbent reports to the VP, Application Development, and will have direct reports.

Notice:

This position requires access to information that is subject to control by the Export Administration Regulations and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Any offer of employment shall be contingent upon the Company's verification that the candidate is a "U.S. Person" or upon the receipt of all necessary export licenses or authorizations that may be required by U.S. export control laws. "U.S. Persons" are defined as U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents (i.e., "green card" holders), or any individual granted protected status under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)), including asylees and refugees. In the event a candidate refuses or cannot otherwise provide the necessary information for the Company to determine whether such licenses may be required, or for the Company to obtain any required licenses, the Company shall maintain the exclusive right to discontinue the application process and/or withdraw any contingent offer that has been made.