Phinia
Senior Director, Enterprise Applications and ERP
Auburn Hills PHINIA WHQ - Michigan - USA · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 17 days ago
SAPSupply ChainVendor ManagementERPLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.
- In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards.
- We believe in making a positive impact through our business and actions, and we take our collective responsibility seriously.
Responsibilities
- Lead PHINIA's Unite ERP transformation as a business transformation that improves global process standardization, operational resilience, adoption, and value realization.
- Establish a modern digital core while ensuring the broader applications portfolio supports end-to-end enterprise value beyond a single platform.
- Challenge existing practices when needed and help leaders make enterprise trade-offs that support simplification, scalability, and long-term performance.
- Lead large-scale ERP transformation activities, including implementation planning, sequencing, governance, execution, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee critical decisions related to architecture, integrations, data migration, process harmonization, testing, cutover, business readiness, and post-go-live support.
- Partner effectively with SAP, system integrators, managed service partners, and internal teams to deliver with discipline, pace, and measurable value.
- Serve as a strategic IT partner to Finance and Supply Chain, ensuring technology solutions support business priorities, process excellence, controls, reporting, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner closely with Plant Operations and Manufacturing leaders to ensure enterprise applications support production execution, operational continuity, and shop-floor integration needs.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Sales/Aftermarket, Data & Analytics, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, regional, and digital teams to deliver integrated enterprise solutions.
- Build trusted senior relationships and translate business priorities into a clear technology roadmap that balances transformation ambition with operational stability.
Requirements
- Required Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field.
- 15+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise applications, ERP, global delivery, and business transformation.
- 10+ years of SAP experience in complex business environments, with meaningful exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and global operations.
- Proven leadership of at least one large-scale, full lifecycle SAP implementation or major ERP transformation
- SAP S/4HANA experience in manufacturing is strongly desired.
- Experience operating in a manufacturing environment, preferably automotive, industrial, or discrete manufacturing.
- Strong experience managing global programs, complex stakeholder environments, system integrators, managed service providers, and distributed internal teams.
- Experience with RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, cloud integration, hyperscaler environments, or modern SAP architecture.
- Experience in automotive, mobility, industrial manufacturing, or other complex global manufacturing environments.
Nice to have
- Preferred Experience and Qualifications
Compensation
- We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization.
Benefits
- Maintain executive-level clarity around risks, dependencies, decisions, milestones, business case performance, and program health.
Company info
- PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow.
- PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™. With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.
- At PHINIA, we Provide fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket products and solutions of the highest quality - developed and manufactured responsibly - that are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, industrial machinery, and other applications. In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards.
- Our Culture
- PHINIA promotes and cultivates an inclusive culture and diverse perspectives, strives to maintain its reputation for excellence, thrives on the power of collaboration, and fosters the development of our talented employees.
- We believe in building a brighter tomorrow for our employees as well as our customers and encourage you to learn about our long history, strong culture, new technologies, and future vision.
- We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities.
- Join us on this shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow.
- The Senior Director, Enterprise Applications and ERP will lead PHINIA's enterprise applications strategy and a foundational business transformation across IT, Finance, Supply Chain, Plant Operations, and the broader enterprise.
- This role will help establish the modern digital core needed to improve global scale, process excellence, operational performance, and data-driven decision-making.
- SAP S/4HANA is the largest and most visible component of the role, but success will be measured by business adoption, process standardization, value realization, and sustainable capability building - not system deployment alone.
- PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™.
Equal opportunity
- We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization.
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