Applied Materials Managing Director Business Applications - Corporate Functions 

United States, California 

921031947

What We Offer

$224,000.00 - $308,000.00Santa Clara,CA

The technologies we create are the foundational building blocks of the future. Our systems make semiconductor devices, called chips—"the brains" of the electronics used in almost every aspect of our lives. The promise of new and exciting applications, transforming industries such as consumer electronics, transportation, communications and healthcare, are enabled by advances in semiconductor and display technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct and lead a team of over 80+ full time employees distributed across the globe
• Oversee IT business relationship management with CFO and his staff, CHRO and her staff as well as head of global trade and her staff
• Partner with business functions to develop a 3-5 year digital transformation roadmap and oversee execution and value capture
• Oversee >$30M annual IT spend across the three pillars for project execution, subscription and application support costs
• Develop and maintain relationships with strategic IT solution providers to keep abreast of industry technology trends and developments and bring solutions to business partners.
• Lead a team of solution architects and established vendors to design IT solutions for productivity, velocity and scale
• Play a key role in Applied journey to digitally transform business across the enterprise leveraging SAP S4. Responsibilities here will include developing business case, defining end state architecture, assembling execution team, overseeing the execution across Finance and Trade and stabilization.
• Oversee the prioritization, slotting and execution of all IT demands across the three pillars and integrate with the annual strategy process
• Transform the three organizations from a project mindset to a product mindset with clear understanding of IT cost, value drivers and roadmap defined for each product
• Manage strategic relations with vendors for contingent workforce on delivery and overall performance. Works with Applied resource management group to identify gaps and opportunities and recommend improvements

Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Education

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field (Master’s preferred)
• Minimum 15 years of IT experience, with at least 10 years in business facing, digital transformation or related roles
• Proven experience in defining, designing and architecting business IT solutions for large and complex org’s
• Excellent communication, leadership, strategic thinking and stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional ability to absorb and handle stress.
• Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company
• Ability to distinguish between and prioritizing urgent and important issues
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic and global environment
• Hands on or leadership experience with SAP or other ERP migrations is a plus

Other Suitability Factors

To succeed in this role requires aand
temperamentthat includes:

• A very mature individual with the right balance of confidence and humility.
• Exceptional ability to absorb and handle stress.
• Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company
• Ability to connect equally well upwards, downwards and sideways in the organization
• Self-motivated and driven towards excellence
• A high level of EQ to be able to manage across a large team with significant diversity
• An inspiring leader
• Analyzing, processing and decision-making based on multidisciplinary and multi-functional data sources that could frequently be incomplete.
• Ability to distinguish between and prioritizing urgent and important issues
• Situational awareness and complex decision-making ability appropriate for the situation

Full time

Assignee / Regular