Manager, Business Systems

About the role

The Business Systems Manager plays a critical role in advancing the Architectural Metals strategic technology roadmap and managing daily operations across all brands. The role works closely with the Sr. Director, IT Business Relationship Management to advance the Vision and Strategy into tangible outcomes aligning with the current and future needs of the business. This role will be critical in technical leadership not only day to day but in driving transformation with modern, best in class technology platforms. This leader will act as a strategic partner with business leaders to standardize across brands and help shape the future operating model. This will enable operational efficiencies and establish key capabilities essential to margin improvement and growth strategies. This role will utilize understanding of current technology solutions to ensure IT services meet the needs of the business and are delivered in accordance with Apogee IT Standards and best practices. It is expected this role drives improvements in these areas to bring in leading and best practices to help revise or establish standards where needed.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT and business leaders to develop, align, and execute technology initiatives that support the Architectural Metals roadmap and business strategy.
• Work with business and IT resources to define project concepts, objectives, scope, benefits, budgets, timelines, resource needs, and expected business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, plan, coordinate, and manage IT efforts to enhance current business systems and implement new project initiatives across ERP, CPQ, customer portals, reporting, integrations, and manufacturing systems.
• Partner with enterprise IT, vendors, business process owners, and subject matter experts to ensure project solutions are technically sound, scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with Apogee standards.
• Participate in project governance by working with the Metals PMO and IT to support milestone planning, status assessment, issue and risk escalation, resource coordination, and decision-making needed to keep initiatives moving.
• Translate existing business process and system knowledge into practical requirements, design input, test support, deployment planning, and post-go-live stabilization activities.
• Maintain awareness of technology trends to identify opportunities for standardization, modernization, reuse, and improved long-term operating efficiency.
• Provide daily operational support for core