W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, is an industrial supply company founded in 1927.  With 23,000 employees, Grainger partners closely with customers to understand their challenges and provide cost-effective solutions for their maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) needs.  The organization is a Fortune 500 Company with greater than $10B in revenue, and is often recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies. 

BASIC FUNCTION: 

This position is responsible for understanding and influencing the overall business strategy and processes and translating business strategy and processes into actionable Enterprise Systems strategy supported by well-defined future state capabilities and transition plans. This position leads the process of aligning, defining, planning, and governing Information Technology (IT) globally. 
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate and lead discussions with cross-functional teams at multiple levels, across the business and Enterprise Systems to understand and influence the current business strategy and business processes.
• Provide strategic consultation to assigned line-of-business (LOB) customers in defining or designing business processes, capabilities, and functions, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer requirements.
• Seek ways to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology in support of Grainger business strategy; research and provide information on technical trends and practices relevant to assigned LOB customers.
• Assess near-term to long-terms needs, using structured methodology, to establish Enterprise Systems priorities; consult with technical subject matter experts and develop alternative technical solutions; Identify options, risks, costs vs. benefits, etc.
• Work closely with the Shared Service, Solution Delivery, Infrastructure & Operations and Business Integration Managers to ensure alignment of future state transition plans with what is being delivered.
• Complete quantitative and qualitative analysis of options, scenarios, and approaches created in support of Enterprise Systems Strategy, taking into account variables such as risk, time, cost, impact, and benefits.
• Ability to make decisions by constructing sufficient context with assumptions, facts, sampling, research and testing to deal with varying degrees of ambiguity

   

REQUIRED EXPERIENCES AND COMPETENCIES:  

• 10 to 15 years of experience preferred in at least two IT disciplines in a global distributed, service-oriented architecture (SOA) or multi-tier environment, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments, including but not limited to SAP.
• Demonstrated Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Comprehensive Knowledge of the IT industry and information technologies at a high and detailed level.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories in support of the Grainger Business strategy.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Demonstrated Excellence with written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture.
• Sound knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of facilitation and organization change management
• MA/MS/MBA or equivalent preferred

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