VP, BPG Lead - Finance & ES

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VP, BPG Lead - Finance & ES

We are looking for a Vice President to join our team to inspire, lead, and grow our world-class business technology team. This executive leader will be responsible for leading our ES and Finance teams. This VP must evolve and operate an organization at scale supporting the products and services that are used by our teams every day. They will partner and work directly with cross functional organizations company wide including enterprise architecture, product management, project management, enterprise operations, business partners, product teams and external partners.

This VP will lead a global team of employees and will be responsible for effective executive stakeholder engagement, building portfolio roadmaps, strategic planning and demonstrating agile expertise with functional-technical-operational processes. They will need to understand the ongoing requirements of our business units and will help evolve our overall Application and Data Strategy, to support new tools and design shifts that enable the business to be successful in a high-growth environment.

Our Business Technology team is global and this VP must be able to collaborate worldwide with our various business partners and customers in our Global Operating Model. Global travel is required to our worldwide locations.

Key Leadership Qualities:

• Builds Trust and Credibility: Proven experience building strong trusted relationships with business units and executives by showing the ability to set expectations and deliver to those expectations. Makes decisions based on the organization's values - actions are consistent with the company's core values. Ability to set clear vision - role models a growth mindset and shares mistakes widely for others to benefit and embraces a learning mentality. Understands the compliance and security requirements around data to protect our assets and partners with security teams to ensure trust and credibility at all times.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to translate details into bigger picture implications driving the business forward, challenging the status quo. Understands specifically the HR industry, market and organizational dynamics with the intellectual horse-power to handle growing complexity and ambiguity. Aligns the right resources to the task at hand; foresees and plans around obstacles.
• Lead & Adapt to Change: Thrives in a changing, dynamic environment and can drive operational efficiencies that map to changing needs. Relishes leading even when times are tough and models the attributes of a GREAT leader. Salesforce Great Leader characteristics include being Salesforce Smart, ability to Get it Done, Win as a Team, Motivate and Champion, and being a Courageous Communicator.
• Focus on Customer Success: Builds and maintains relationships with customers, business partners and dependent teams; shapes solutions that have significant positive impact on their business.
• Talent Management: Has a passion for building great teams - proven ability to develop others who have significantly contributed to company success with a history of making good hiring decisions and developing a strong bench of successors. Champions talent beyond own organization.
• Innovate for Growth: Always thinking about how to make improvements; able to implement changes that map to business strategy. Stays abreast of cutting edge technology trends.
• As a courageous leader, one must be able to take an unpopular stand if necessary for the betterment of our business. Must encourage a transparent and healthy debate while seeking the best alternative. This leader is looked to for direction in a crisis, faces adversity head on, and is energized by tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create an organization that delivers both compelling vision and deliverables that extend our market leadership.
• Manage executive level relationships, expectations, and portfolio for the ES and Finance teams.
• Collaborate with vendors and industry consultants to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance our strategy and operating model for supporting our business partners.
• Facilitate timely decision-making across a broad network of stakeholders, delivery partners, and operational teams.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders including security, architecture, engineering and infrastructure to coordinate the delivery of complex programs.
• Accountability for team integrity, product excellence, decision making, delivery estimates and roadmaps, career development, client communications, and project outcomes.
• Inspire, build, lead, retain, develop and grow a world-class, global technology team (technical, leadership, business, and functional skill sets)
• Show up with a beginners mindset - fostering a Salesforce values driven work culture.

Required Skills:

• Proven Experience leading IT product portfolios, systems delivery, and/or software engineering teams in the HR space.
• Exceptional leadership capabilities and strong interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience with HR systems that support the lifecycle of HR processes and Salesforce platform knowledge as well.
• Experience with financial and HR software systems, such as ERP and HCM platforms.
• Exceptional communicator with a strong ability to influence and build trust with executive stakeholders, employees, customers. Must be comfortable in presenting to both business and technical executives.
• Represent our Core Values of trust, customer success, innovation, and equality.
• Outstanding leadership skills and ability to set clear vision
• Collaborative and effective people skills and a passion for building great teams
• Customer focus and the experience and skills to work directly with key customers and partner

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