Description

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the development and execution of the ERP modernization strategy, readiness plan, and transformation roadmap.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans encompassing ERP strategy, business process transformation, requirements, data readiness, organizational change management, procurement, solution selection, and implementation readiness.
• Establish program governance structures, decision-making processes, escalation paths, roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
• Coordinate activities and dependencies across Finance, Human Resources, Student/Campus Solutions, Information Technology, and other stakeholder groups.
• Assess organizational capacity and identify resource and skill requirements necessary to support ERP planning and implementation.
• Develop program schedules and sequencing that account for operational priorities, business cycles, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Facilitate executive and stakeholder discussions regarding ERP strategy, scope, priorities, risks, decisions, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinate business process, requirements, data, integration, OCM, procurement, and technical workstreams.
• Support development of preliminary budgets, staffing models, implementation approaches, and resource plans.
• Support development of ERP procurement and selection strategies, including ERP solution and systems integrator selection.
• Manage program risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions.
• Provide executive-level reporting regarding program status, risks, decisions, milestones, and readiness.
• Ensure business stakeholders maintain meaningful ownership and participation throughout the transformation.
 

Minimum Qualifications
• At least ten (10) years of experience managing large-scale ERP implementation, modernization, replacement, or enterprise transformation programs, including planning, execution, schedule, scope, risk, issue, dependency, and resource management.
• At least seven (7) years of experience leading complex technology or business transformation initiatives involving multiple business functions, departments, or organizational entities.
• At least five (5) years of experience developing and managing ERP/program roadmaps, integrated project plans, governance structures, resource plans, and implementation strategies.
• At least five (5) years of experience facilitating and managing executive-level and cross-functional stakeholders, including establishing decision-making structures, resolving competing priorities, and providing executive reporting.
• At least five (5) years of experience managing programs involving business requirements, BPR, data/integration, OCM, procurement/vendor activities, testing, and implementation readiness across multiple workstreams.
Desirable Qualifications
• Experience leading an ERP replacement from strategy/readiness through RFP development, solution selection, systems integrator selection, and/or implementation.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP, Workday, PeopleSoft modernization/replacement, or comparable enterprise SaaS ERP platforms.
• ERP transformation experience within higher education, California public sector, or another large decentralized public organization.
• Experience leading an ERP program involving Finance, HR/HCM, and Student/SIS or similarly complex functional domains.
• Experience developing business cases, cost estimates/TCO, staffing models, implementation sequencing, or ERP modernization budgets.
• PMP, PgMP, Prosci, SAFe, or comparable professional certification

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute