Director, IT - ERP

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.•Lake Mary, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Mitsubishi Power Americas is seeking a Director of IT ERP in the Lake Mary/Orlando, Florida area. The director is the senior technology leader accountable for the strategy, architecture, deployment, and ongoing operation of the S/4HANA platform and its enterprise application ecosystem, including SAP BTP, SAP Ariba, data, and integration services. Following the foundational upgrade from SAP ECC 6.0, this leader will guide deployment of new S/4HANA functionality and modules, modernize data and integration architecture, and introduce AI-driven capabilities into daily operations. The role owns the S/4HANA platform roadmap and measurable business outcomes across core ERP value streams. It leads a 12-person internal team and governs an Application Management Services agreement with a global delivery partner. The director will make architectural and build-versus-extend-versus-configure decisions, promote a clean-core, low-customization approach, and translate manufacturing, installation, field service, supply chain, and finance priorities into an enterprise ERP roadmap. The director also serves as platform Product Owner and evangelist, building executive alignment and influencing enterprise strategy. Responsibilities span new module deployments, SAP IBP, EWM, MES evaluation, field service platform strategy, SAP Ariba, BTP extensions and integration, data architecture and governance, AI and agentic capabilities, Signavio, WalkMe, and Salesforce-to-S/4HANA integration. The position may require 10–25% domestic and international travel depending on project and customer engagement work.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
12 or more years of experience in enterprise IT.
5 or more years in senior SAP leadership roles.
Experience in heavy manufacturing, power generation, EPC/installation, or long-term service and field service environments.
Hands-on experience delivering SAP S/4HANA, including post-ECC migration module deployments through greenfield, brownfield, or selective transition.
Experience integrating peripheral systems to enable end-to-end processes and data reuse across platforms such as SAP Ariba, HRIS, BI, CLM, PLM, and MES.
Demonstrated success reducing customization and modernizing S/4HANA after a brownfield migration, including working with process managers to develop a continuous-improvement and CI/CD culture.
Track record leading internal teams of 10 or more and governing AMS or managed-services partners.
Strong architectural judgment and ability to make and defend platform decisions.
Demonstrated ownership of business outcomes, ideally as a platform or product owner, and experience influencing strategy.
Executive presence; clear communication of technical strategy and direction; business relationship management; and fiscal management of multimillion-dollar implementations.
Must be legally authorized to work permanently in the United States and must not require employer immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or MBA.
Familiarity with SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, or comparable modern data platforms and enterprise integration, including SAP Integration Suite or event-driven patterns.
Experience embedding AI or agentic tooling into the SDLC, including MCP-based integrations and AI coding agents.
SAP certifications in S/4HANA or BTP and project or program leadership credentials.
Deep working knowledge of SAP BTP, clean-core and side-by-side extension strategy, and platform cost management.
Experience with SAP Project Systems or Commercial Project Management, particularly in project-based or energy/infrastructure environments.
Experience governing Salesforce-to-SAP S/4HANA integration using SAP BTP Integration Suite or equivalent middleware.
Experience with SAP IBP implementations involving supply chain planning, demand management, S&OP, or inventory optimization.

Responsibilities

Own measurable business outcomes across procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report value streams.
Serve as Product Owner for the S/4HANA platform, owning its vision, backlog, roadmap, and business-value-based investment priorities.
Promote S/4HANA solutions, future capabilities, and SAP Ariba, encouraging awareness and adoption across business and IT.
Build executive relationships, align the ERP roadmap with company strategy, and influence strategy as a trusted advisor.
Lead the shift toward governance, supervision, and policy-driven execution as AI and agentic capabilities mature.
Own the S/4HANA roadmap and sequence new functions and modules following the ECC 6.0 upgrade.
Govern architectural decisions across S/4HANA, SAP BTP, Ariba, and the data layer.
Drive a clean-core strategy by reducing custom code and in-core modifications and moving extensions and custom logic to SAP BTP and side-by-side patterns.
Lead design, build, testing, and go-live for S/4HANA modules and capabilities serving manufacturing, installation, field service, supply chain, and finance.
Partner with business process owners to translate requirements into standard-first solutions and minimize bespoke development.
Establish release management, environment strategy, and cutover governance.
Govern the IT side of the SAP IBP program and chair or sponsor the IBP Center of Excellence.
Own SAP Extended Warehouse Management deployment and cutover for main campus operations.
Evaluate and sequence a vendor-agnostic MES deployment, including its S/4HANA integration architecture and phased rollout.
Own the Field Service Management platform strategy for outage and LTSA/LTMA service execution, considering Salesforce as the confirmed CRM platform.
Use SAP BTP for extensions, custom applications, automation, and integration while maintaining a clean digital core.
Own enterprise integration strategy across SAP and non-SAP systems, including PLM, MES, FSM, BI, CRM, DataLake, MCP, third-party logistics, and customer systems.
Own SAP Ariba architectural and deployment decisions and integrate source-to-pay processes with S/4HANA and supplier ecosystems.
Advance AI and agentic capabilities across the SAP estate, including MCP-based integrations and AI coding or automation agents such as Joule.
Pilot and scale AI use cases such as intelligent support, automated testing, code generation, and document and master-data automation, with ROI and governance.
Define and govern S/4HANA data architecture, including SAP Datasphere or SAP Business Data Cloud for analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
Establish data quality and master data governance standards and a single source of truth across the application landscape.
Own activation and governance of SAP Signavio for business process intelligence.
Govern the WalkMe digital adoption platform for onboarding, productivity, and change management across SAP.
Govern Salesforce-to-S/4HANA integration through SAP BTP Integration Suite to ensure clean, maintainable connectivity.
Lead, mentor, and develop 12 internal resources across functional, technical, data, and integration disciplines.
Set objectives, manage performance, build career paths, develop succession plans, and foster an accountable, standard-first engineering culture.
Govern the global delivery provider's AMS agreement, managing SLAs, service quality, throughput, escalations, and cost, and holding the partner accountable to outcomes.
Manage investment guidelines and multimillion-dollar program budgets for module deployments.
Travel domestically and internationally as required, potentially up to 10–25% depending on project and customer engagements.