At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a IT Manager to join the Legrand Team.

As an IT Manager, you’ll help lead strategic project implementations including the readiness, discovery, design, configuration, and development activities. The role will ensure and support successful business adoption of new solutions, ongoing production support and post go-live enhancements. This role requires a strong understanding of SAP principles, proven project management experience and delivering high quality solutions through functional/technical development for the purpose of meeting overall business requirements.

This role also will manage the day to day operations and legacy applications that support the business. Manage major incidents, on call support, and break fix items that need to be remediated. Help to lead project steering committee meetings and the IT representative in the business staff meetings.

What Will You Do?

· Discover, Design, develop, and implement functionalities per business requirements for various strategic projects

· Design and develop efficient, well-structured and documented functional-technical solutions with an emphasis on SAP/4 HANA

· Understand Legrand business processes and requirements by engaging with business partners at enterprise and division levels

· Collaborate with peers in the Technology team to apply best practices to integrate with SAP and non-SAP-applications (ECC/BW)

· Manage implementation of complex interfaces to downstream systems

· Build effective relationships within our matrixed organization with other Business Units in order to support all activities

· Provides administrative direction and supervision to non-direct reports

· Provide strategic thought leadership on the definition and management of strategic projects

· Engage as an active leader across the multi-functional (finance, sales, manufacturing, quality, distribution, customer service) organization

· Design, develop, implement ERP integration improvements with other various platforms such as EDI, WMS, analytics/reporting, etc.

· Manage the IT organizational team and vendors

Education:

· Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business from an accredited institution or equivalent

Experience:

· Minimum ten (10) years as IT manager

· Experience implementing SAP S/4 HANA

Skills/knowledge/Abilities:

· Proven experience completing assigned tasks on multiple projects with tight deadlines successfully

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills able to identify flexible and futuristic IT solutions

· Excellent written and oral communications – ability to communicate to all levels of the organization, both business and IT

· Some experience designing SAP

· Must be able to communicate effectively, honestly, and respectfully, with all levels of personnel

· Work closely with other departments to meet performance and scalability expectations for SAP environment

· Assess up-and-coming SAP technology, and create ideas and strategies for adoption

· Design SAP solutions in support of the business request to improve or add functionality to the existing SAP landscape

· Excellent track record and proven ability to produce effective, innovative solutions on an enterprise scale.

· Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Possess interpersonal skills to engage and collaborate in a team environment

· Self-starter to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge

· Adherence to IT/SAP project methodologies, and change control processes

· Familiarity and comfort in working with a variety of support models with onsite & offshore resources

· Willingness to work off business hours and weekends as required for production support when issues arise

About Legrand

Representing more than 150 years of innovation, Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our purpose is improving lives by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. Every day, over 39,000 Legrand employees work hard to enhance the buildings of tomorrow. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR) with revenue of €7 billion, and products sold in 180 countries. For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand North and Central America (LNCA) employs over 6,500 associates in 50 locations, working across six divisions/sector: Audio Visual, Building Controls Systems, Data Power and Controls, Electrical Wiring Systems, and Lighting.  We hold a leading position in every North American market we serve and focus on exceeding our customers’ needs within the commercial, residential, and industrial industries. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network.  LNCA is an employee-centered, growing company with tremendous opportunity.  For more information, visit legrand.us