About this role
Job Title: IT Integration Business Partner
Location: Buffalo, New York, United States (Hybrid / work home days)
Job Type: Full Time
Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense
Job Description:
Seeking an Enterprise Integration Business Partner. You will act as a strategic liaison between IT, business units, and Corporate IT teams to ensure successful implementation, support, integration, and optimization of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with connected systems including MES, PLM, and financial planning tools.
You will focus on aligning technology solutions with business objectives to streamline operations, enhance production efficiency, and support end-to-end business processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as a strategic IT–Business Partner, acting as the primary liaison between business units, Corporate IT, and technical teams to deliver integrated ERP solutions.
Lead, manage, and develop the Commercial Aircraft ERP Business Process Champion Team; co-manage the ERP Data Lead team.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with CAG division and business unit leadership to support strategic financial priorities and operational goals.
Define, own, and govern future-state enterprise business processes, driving global standardization across CAG operations.
Act as the primary decision-maker for CAG process-related topics throughout the ERP project lifecycle.
Ensure full alignment with CAG standards and the ERP Activate methodology (Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run).
Drive process compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and audit standards in a highly regulated environment.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document functional and technical requirements across ERP, MES, PLM, and financial planning systems.
Lead CAG ERP initiatives while partnering with Corporate IT ERP program teams to ensure consistent delivery and enterprise alignment.
Translate business, manufacturing, and financial processes into system configuration and integration requirements.
Support ERP implementation, system testing, integration, and deployment with MES, PLM, and production financial planning tools.
Optimize end-to-end business processes to improve operational efficiency, production performance, and financial visibility.
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field.
7+ years of experience in IT, ERP implementations, or enterprise systems integration within manufacturing, engineering, aerospace, or defense environments.
Proven experience acting as a business partner or liaison between IT and cross-functional business teams.
Strong expertise with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics.
Hands-on experience integrating ERP systems with MES, PLM, and financial planning tools.
Solid understanding of manufacturing, production, and financial business processes within complex enterprise environments.
Certifications & Technical Expertise:
ERP platform certification(s) (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics).
Demonstrated experience with MES, PLM, and financial planning system interfaces and integrations.
Recruitment Partner: Sperton
This position is exclusively managed by Sperton, a global talent partner connecting high-performing professionals with leading organizations worldwide.
Other facts
About Sperton Global AS
SPERTON is a full-range provider of Global Recruitment, People Management, Global Mobility and Business support services within focused industry sectors. Our head office is located in Norway. We have over 20 years’ of experience supporting clients within the Human Resources area. We can support you globally through our own companies and partners in more than 140 countries.
Sperton had been specializing in the supply of the very best freelance and permanent white-collar professionals working with projects. We provide consultant and recruitment services to companies of all types and sizes, including consultancies, contractors, sub-contractors, developers and end clients operating across a wide range of projects and environments.
Now our services also include People Management, Global Mobility and Business Support Services.
Legal entity set-up, payroll services, HR administration, compliance, and insurance provision, cultural awareness training, and mobility support – everything needed to work compliantly with local legislation and regulations in different countries.
With over 20 years of global experience within project execution, we understand your challenges and know how to support you from the start to the end of the project.
What you'll do
- Serve as a strategic IT–Business Partner, acting as the primary liaison between business units, Corporate IT, and technical teams to deliver integrated ERP solutions. Drive process compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and audit standards in a highly regulated environment.
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