Director - SAP Center of Excellence

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CRH Americas Building Products is reinventing what's possible in building solutions. We are the leading provider of innovative outdoor living products and utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We're a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, retailers and homeowners alike as the manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, and plastic infrastructure products. Our portfolio of brands includes Oldcastle APG, Oldcastle Infrastructure, Belgard® hardscape, Echelon® Masonry, RDI® railing, Catalyst™ Fence Solutions, Sakrete® packaged concrete, Amerimix® mortar, Pebble Technology International® pool finishes, and Techniseal® sands and sealant technologies.
Job Summary
Oldcastle Infrastructure (OI), as part of CRH’s Infrastructure Products Group (IPG), is a global manufacturing leader of utility infrastructure products. Our goal is to be the most efficient producer of engineered systems and our customers’ strategic partner of choice. A crucial part of OI’s journey is the investment in new digital tools including a new ERP. With a modern, common platform, OI will unlock the benefits of its scale, deliver a better customer experience, and build a foundation for continuous process improvement.
The Director of the Technical Center of Excellence leads a team of SAP functional resources across all platform modules, owning the architecture, design, system governance, functional systems blueprint, and delivery of key end‑to‑end processes and platforms within our SAP ecosystem. The role manages functional technology leaders for the following process value streams: Order‑to‑Cash (OTC), Plan‑to‑Produce (PTP), Requisition‑to‑Pay (RTP), and Post-to-Close (PTC). It also manages the systems architects across core applications: SAP SD, LE, PP, MM, PS, FI, and CO, ensuring cohesive architecture, technical specification design and standardization.
Job Location
This role will work out of our office in Sandy Springs, GA with a hybrid schedule.
Job Responsibilities
SAP Functional Platform Strategy and Governance
Own the SAP functional platform strategy, roadmap, and governance model.
Serve as the functional platform owner for SAP, ensuring solution decisions support enterprise process consistency, scalable template design, clean core principles, integration integrity, and business value realization.
Partner with Business Process leaders to translate requirements into measurable transformation objectives across Order to Cash (OTC), Plan to Produce (PTP), Requisition to Pay (RTP), and Post to Close (PTC).
Ensure SAP functional design and change decisions consider process controls, auditability, data integrity, security, segregation of duties, compliance requirements, and financial/operational risk.
Own functional intake, prioritization, and release planning for the Center of Excellence to balance business enhancements, defect remediation, compliance needs, platform stability, and delivery capacity.
SAP COE Architecture and QA Leadership
Lead the SAP COE architect team and SAP QA/testing team, providing direction, standards, capacity planning, performance management, and delivery accountability.
Manage functional architects and analysts responsible for High-Level Design (HLD), Functional Specification Documentation (FSD), configuration standards, process blueprints, and solution documentation aligned to the CRH IPG template.
Define and enforce SAP architecture governance, including fit/gap analysis, design authority, cross-process tradeoff resolution, standardization, integration alignment, security considerations, and compliance with SAP Activate methodology.
Own functional integration governance across SAP processes and connected systems, ensuring upstream and downstream impacts are understood, documented, tested, and aligned before design or release decisions are approved.
Own the SAP QA strategy, including test planning, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, quality metrics, release readiness criteria, and continuous improvement of testing practices.
Implementation Delivery and Business Readiness
Manage delivery of the remaining SAP deployment waves from a functional implementation perspective, ensuring readiness across design completion, build validation, testing execution, data and integration dependencies, cutover support, and hypercare readiness.
Partner with PMO, Business Process, OCM, Data, Optimization, Process Excellence, technical delivery, and support teams to drive integrated planning, milestone execution, risk mitigation, and successful deployment outcomes.
Provide executive-level visibility to delivery health, quality trends, readiness risks, functional decision points, issue resolution needs, and recommended actions.
Ensure functional documentation, training inputs, process flows, test scripts, and knowledge transfer materials are complete, accurate, and transitioned appropriately to OCM, business process, and support teams.
Govern SI and vendor delivery across functional design, build validation, testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and hypercare execution to ensure partner work is aligned to CRH standards, timelines, and quality expectations.
Long-Term SAP Operations and Continuous Improvement
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Employment type
Full Time