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.