Job ID:  530388

CRH's Americas Materials business is the leading provider of building materials in North America. The aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete, paving and construction services we deliver are critical to building our world. Our operations span 45 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces with over 30,000 employees across 1,700 operating locations.

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

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

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CRH Americas Materials Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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