VP, Business Transformation

Position Summary

The VP, Business Transformation owns the design, build, test and deployment of the AMAT Phoenix solution template and is accountable for delivering a working solution that meets every business requirement.

Phoenix is a company-wide transformation. It standardizes data, processes, applications and organization across AMAT, and establishes a central Shared Finance model. This leader has ultimate responsibility for a deployed solution that enables standardization and drives process adherence across all businesses and regions.

Key Responsibilities

Solution ownership and delivery

• Hold end-to-end accountability for the Phoenix solution template: design, build, test and deployment
• Ensure the deployed solution meets all business requirements and works in production across businesses and regions
• Own the solution roadmap, release plan and deployment waves, including go/no-go decisions
• Manage scope, budget, schedule and risk, and escalate to program senior leadership as needed

Standardization and process adherence

• Define and enforce a single global template for processes, data, applications and organization
• Run a rigorous fit-to-standard and design-authority process; limit local deviations to approved, justified exceptions
• Embed process adherence through solution design, controls, KPIs and ongoing governance

Shared Finance model

• Partner with Finance leadership to design and stand up a central Shared Finance model (processes, systems, roles and service levels)
• Translate Shared Finance requirements into solution capabilities, and align the operating model with the technology

Leadership and stakeholder management

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team of business solution leads, architects, functional and technical experts, and system integrator and vendor partners
• Align business unit, Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Sales and Operations leaders around one template, and resolve conflicting requirements
• Lead through influence: build alignment and drive decisions across peers, business units and partners without relying on direct authority
• Report progress, risks and benefits to the executive team
• Partner closely with the peer VP who oversees business readiness, including organizational change management (OCM) and data, to drive adoption, organizational readiness and benefits realization

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, information systems, engineering or a related field
• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise business transformation or solutions leadership, including 5+ years at VP/senior executive level
• Proven track record leading a similar role: end-to-end accountability for a global ERP/business transformation template through design, build, test and deployment
• Deep SAP experience (for example S/4HANA), including template-based global rollouts and finance, order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes
• Experience in the building products industry, with understanding of its distribution, manufacturing, pricing and channel dynamics
• Strong understanding of integration and data across a large, complex application landscape: interface architecture, master data, data migration and governance
• Experience standardizing processes, data and organization across multiple business units, and enforcing adherence to a global template
• Experience designing or implementing a Shared Services or Shared Finance model
• Demonstrated ability to lead large cross-functional teams and manage system integrators and vendors
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

• Experience leading a multi-wave, multi-country deployment
• Familiarity with finance systems such as consolidation, planning, treasury and tax tools
• Background in change management, data governance or enterprise architecture
• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) or relevant certifications (PMP, SAP, TOGAF)

Competencies and Sucess Measures

Core competencies

• Outcome ownership: drives to a working, deployed solution rather than a delivered plan
• Enterprise and systems thinking across process, data, application and organization
• Firm standardization discipline, balanced with pragmatic business partnership
• Leads through influence: earns trust, builds consensus and moves senior stakeholders to a common standard without formal authority
• Decision-making under ambiguity, and willingness to say no to non-standard requests
• Talent leadership: builds and retains high-performing blended teams

Success measures

• Phoenix template deployed on schedule and within budget, with all business requirements met
• Adoption of the global template, with a low and controlled number of approved deviations
• Shared Finance model operating with agreed service levels and cost targets
• Data quality and integration stability at and after go-live
• Stakeholder confidence, measured through executive sponsor and business unit feedback