Director, IT - OTC Business Applications

Job Description

Position Title: Director, IT Order to Cash Business Applications

Location: Atlanta, GA

Reports To: VP, Global Business Applications

Company Overview

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid®, Paper Mate®, Sharpie®, Dymo®, EXPO®, Parker®, Elmer’s®, Coleman®, Marmot®, Oster®, Sunbeam®, FoodSaver®, Mr. Coffee®, Rubbermaid Commercial Products®, Graco®, Baby Jogger®, NUK®, Calphalon®, Contigo®, Mapa®, Spontex® and Yankee Candle®. Newell Brands is committed to enhancing the lives of consumers around the world with planet friendly, innovative and attractive products that create moments of joy and provide peace of mind.

Job Overview

This Order to Cash and Customer capabilities IT leadership role will be responsible for partnering with the business leaders to drive the implementation and orchestration of the Newell Brands integrated Supply Chain transformation. The role provides partnership and guidance to the global Order Management community to ensure business goals and value realizations are met through effective provision of technology solutions and services. The Global Order to Cash IT Director will be responsible for leading end-to-end delivery of solutions within timelines and budget. The team reporting to this role will be responsible for delivering the newell brands transformation initiatives while providing production support and enhancements to maintain operations.

Responsibilities:

This Director role is responsible for IT Order-to-Cash global delivery organization, working closely with leadership of the newell brands business teams in customer services, sales, trade and consumer care to enable newell’s long-term vision and success for Order to Cash functions across the enterprise global platform. This position reports to the VP of Global Business Applications and is expected to lead global harmonized capability and delivery teams supporting business functions for Order to Invoice, Order Fulfillment, Warehouse, Revenue Growth Management and Consumer Services. Key capabilities will be the ability to work with/influence senior leaders, manage resources, budgets and deliver projects on time.

This role is responsible for the entire delivery lifecycle, including identifying business needs, managing portfolio prioritization, solution design and delivery. The ideal candidate will bring order management or supply chain subject matter expertise, industry best known methods, significant IT SAP solution delivery experience, influencing and negotiating skills and a demonstrated track record of delivering high-value business outcomes.

• Lead and manage Order-to-Cash IT vision, strategy, and full execution
• Support Order-to-Cash business process definition and re-engineering, strategy, and execution across large complex programs while supporting target architecture roadmaps
• Quickly build and maintain a trusted relationship with business partners to understand challenges and needs for a One IT approach.
• Work closely with business partners to analyze and formulate the scope/objectives of the system, design and deliver capabilities to run efficient industry-standard business processes.
• Support a multi-year capabilities and technology roadmap
• Identify metrics to ensure we are delivering innovative, high value, efficient IT services and solutions with best-in-class delivery.
• Manage the transition of design to execution, including the governance and user adoption required to achieve the desired business outcomes and value.
• Ensure high quality delivery methodology, leveraging Waterfall, Agile and Scrum principals
• Ensure the security of our IT assets as well as proprietary, sensitive information from external as well as internal attacks.
• Managing hiring and development of world-class talent, fostering a strong one newell brands team environment

Qualifications:

This role requires deep knowledge of the Consumer Products industry, best practice, business and functional areas in order to be a trusted business advisor for all functions including Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, HR, and Legal and all services including business applications, application development / integration, reporting and analytics, data management, security and internal controls.

• 10+ years of IT leadership in applications or solution delivery with strong track record of superior delivery results.
• 5+ years relevant domain experience in order management and distribution
• Education: BS or equivalent in a related computer science or engineering or related field. Advanced degree a plus; relevant Industry certifications a plus.
• Deep functional expertise of Order to Cash business processes, creating strategy, and technical expertise of process and systems that support corporate strategic direction such as Order Newell Operating Model Initiative and multi node distribution.
• Experience and deploying solutions using SAP ECC, Trade Promotion Management, Pricing and Salesforce CRM.
• Proven track record of collaboration across multiple IT organizations, business partners and stakeholders; ability to operate in an ambiguous environment, ability to think beyond the current boundaries, question the status quo structure/functions and recommend and effect changes.
• Established record of success building high-performance teams, developing leaders and driving necessary organizational change.
• Deep understanding of enterprise IT from business, technology and operational perspectives
• Experienced at management communication and presentation skills, skilled at influencing relationships with internal business customers at executive and senior management levels.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Work Model for this Role
This role will be eligible for our current hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site in Atlanta, GA IT office and off-site.