Group Applications Manager
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Responsible for all IT applications across Implats, including Busines (SAP), Mining (Mineral Resource Management) and Production (Asphentech Manufacturing Execution) Systems.• Awarded 2010 Impact Award from AFSUG for the best SAP Implementation that delivered business value and innovation• Aligned and balance IT strategy with business strategy, operational objectives, IT trends and best practices execution.• Lead, plan, direct and coordinate the design, implementation and operation of cost effective group wide IT• Manage SAP Support Partners & vendor relationships and SLAs• Establish capable hardware infrastructure IS&T platform to support a reliable and responsive service.• Delivered Portfolio & Application Management systems• Implemented projects that enable business growth and create new enterprise business capabilities and information.• Responsible for IT application management & support including SAP ERP6, BI, CRM, SRM, SHE, Mining & Production systems.• Established Corporate Data Warehouse, Dashboards and Web-based reporting to improve decision support capability. • Achieved all Risk, SHE, regulatory & Disaster Recovery objectives • Managed a team of 50+ IT specialists and an annual operational budget of R60 million and a capital budget of R200 million.• Established PMO, risk, governance & business continuity frameworks and systems using SAP PPM, PMI and TOC. • Programme Managed 30+ Business Improvement projects per year.• Implemented ASAP, COBIT, CMMI and ITIL methodologies.• Built a cost effective, dynamic and capable IT support team able to service all the application users within the agreed SLA• Established values based culture, strong change & testing control.• Delivered: SAP EPM, ERP6, BI and SRM Upgrades. SAP SD, PI, DMS, SPP, PPM, IP, SAP & MS Portal ,Solution Manager, GRC, BO, DI, MDM, BW and MTS data warehouse, Spatial Info DB, EH&S, MRM, MES batch, Tibco and Virtualisation projects.