**Why join Stryker?**:
Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
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**Who we want**:
- ** Analytical problem solvers**: People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
- ** Dedicated achievers.** People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- ** Strategic thinkers.** People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for the purposes of planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities.
- ** Curious learners**: People who seek out cutting-edge research and information to expand and enhance their ability to develop new ideas into reality.
- ** Detail-oriented process improvers.** Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
- ** Effective communicators**: People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.
**What you will do**:
- Ensure excellence in process execution across all operational processes (e.g. Change, configuration, etc.) related to the solution.
- Influence process development and carry them out to meet business objectives.
- Develop influential relationships with internal and external team members and vendor partners at appropriate levels.
- Make decisions that impact the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives, and system and organizational performance.
- Contribute to the formulation and implementation of IT strategy.
- Solicit and monitor customer feedback and respond with actions that drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure documentation that is relevant to the service is maintained in a meaningful and accessible manner. This includes system documentation, requirements and test scripts, knowledge articles, and configuration and organizational information, emergency contacts/call lists, etc.
- Ensure technical governance of the ERP portfolio.
- Ensure the platform is scalable and configured to meet growing customer numbers.
- Analyzes, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost, and quality targets.
- Push for quick adoption of project execution strategies that produce highly maintainable services with low TCO.
- Minimize build-to-run transition by scrutinizing changes very carefully, opting to keep systems stable instead.
- Ensure a smooth transition into operations and ensure this is documented.
**What you will need**:
- At least 10 years of experience in JDE is required. Experience with core JDEdwards functionality in Sales & Distribution, Financial and Manufacturing, understanding of the supporting technologies supporting JDEdwards, RF Technologies, iSeries, reporting Tech
- Experience in back-end database technologies such as DB2, MS SQL Server, and iSeries
- Experience with third-party integrations with JDE.
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience required; Bachelor's degree in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent field of study required.
- Strong knowledge of PC skills working with large datasets (Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word)
- Quick learner; ability to research and learn new technologies on own as necessary.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Independent thinker can make technical decisions without extensive input from others.
- Strong team player.
- Ability to lead on and off-shore technical teams.
- Works effectively with cross-departmental teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to facilitate discussions across the team to derive solutions.
- Ability to self-direct work efforts, meet deadlines, and produce consistent high-quality work.
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