Our Dallas based Manufacturing client is looking for a D365 Sr. ERP Specialist, who will be responsible for configuration, implementation, and support of the ERP system for each platform under our client's brand. The ideal candidate will have extensive business process design and optimization experience as well as knowledge of manufacturing business processes, basic ecommerce technology, data management, broad understanding of the environmental industry, tenacity for solving problems, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support, including resolution of incidents related to the company's ERP systems.
• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, initiative, and strong sense of urgency in all assignments.
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize requirements.
• Develop test cases, execute test plans, log defects, develop functional design specifications including workflow, validation, and logic requirements. Ensure designs can be traced back to requirements.
• Understand and document process flows, integration points, forms and workflow requirements impacting areas of responsibilities.
• Configure the ERP requirements and perform unit testing.
• Analyze business challenges, objectives and develop as is/to-be processes.
• Collaborate with Scrum team (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Technical Leads, vendors, solution integrators etc.) to clarify vision, scope, and capabilities.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements.
• Collaborate with peers, stakeholders and project team to secure commitments and maintain accountability.

Job Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field and 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• 5+ years of hands-on implementation and support experience with D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.
• Working knowledge and experience of other ERP systems.
• Extensive experience working in specific areas such as Finance, Procurement, Sales, Distribution, Warehouse Management, Material and Resource Scheduling/ Planning, Production Routing, Bill of Material Costing, and Shop Floor.
• Prior experience in designing and implementing business solutions.
• Experience with ERP implementations and Migrations to D365, ISVs and integrations
• Ability to understand complex business problems and experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations, and policies of new businesses.
• Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
• Proven interpersonal skills and an ability to influence senior leaders and peers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation, use case, story and acceptance criteria.
• Proven Project Management skills and ability to initiate, plan and execute projects.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills.
• Advanced knowledge of agile development methodologies and hands on with Azure DevOps.

Required Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of Visio & MS Office Productivity tools (Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point).
• Knowledge of PMI, Lean, ITIL methodologies.
• Knowledge of SQL, scripting, and data analysis.
• Knowledge of accounting business processes and integration with operations a strong plus.
• Knowledge and/or experience servicing or designing solutions for the Manufactory vertical.
• Knowledge of Agile software development systems using MS DevOps.
• Mathematics-Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• English Language-Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar.
• Exercising confidentiality, discretion, and sound judgment.
• Sense of Urgency - Motivated self-starter.
• Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Critical thinking - Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Analytical - Strong analytical skills. Being able to analyze complex challenges by identifying fundamental drivers, fact finding and creating options based on facts and figures.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Well-developed ability to multi-task and prioritize with strong attention to details.
• Organization and prioritization - The ability to prioritize and organize workload with strong attention to details.
• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Aptitude for Technology - The ability to apply and improve extensive or in-dept specialized knowledge, skills, and judgement by assessing, and translating information technology into responsive and effective procurement solutions.