Sr. Director Enterprise Applications

The Sr. Director, Enterprise Applications is a strategic technology leader who shapes and supports how Wabash harnesses its enterprise platforms to drive business performance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth. This role sits at the intersection of technology and business transformation, owning the architecture, roadmap, and evolution of Wabash's core application ecosystem, including SAP, Salesforce, and the broader enterprise portfolio.

In this role you'll lead a talented team spanning application administration and development, process enablement, and master data management, and serve as a key voice in enterprise technology decisions at the senior leadership level. The ideal candidate brings deep enterprise application expertise paired with the strategic mindset and communication skills to influence at every level, from engineering teams to the executive suite.

Your Responsibilities:

Define and deliver the vision, architecture, and roadmap for Wabash's enterprise application portfolio, including platform simplification, risk analysis, architectural gap assessment, and alignment with industry and technology trends

Develop architectural design blueprints and business cases that document challenges, solution approaches, benefits, costs, and risks

Own the planning, configuration, design, and continuous improvement of core enterprise platforms including SAP, AS400, Salesforce, Concur, and ADP

Lead the Process Enablement team in translating business requirements into enterprise platform capabilities, including Master Data Management (MDM) governance, business process design, and enterprise data standards

Collaborate with the Enterprise Data team to align technology roadmaps, ensuring application upgrades are synchronized with data platform capabilities. Translate complex business logic from enterprise applications into the data lake to establish a unified, consistent, and governed single source of truth that supports enterprise-wide analytics and reporting.

Partner closely with business leaders to understand requirements, analyze potential services, and align technology investments with business priorities. Communicate initiative status, roadmap progress, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership through the IT Strategy & Operations Council and other governance forums.

Lead and participate in IT governance groups associated with enterprise application services. Work closely with other IT teams to develop procedures, standards, operational controls, and communication paths that support reliable technology operations across infrastructure and applications.

Manage vendor relationships including contract negotiation and compliance. Oversee programs, services, and budgets for the Enterprise Applications and Process Enablement teams, identifying opportunities to reduce cost burden while preserving critical business functionality.

At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:

Embrace Diversity and Inclusion – Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness

Seek to Listen – Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions

Always Learn – Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo

Be Authentic – Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do

Win Together – Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash

Join us in turning ideas into world-changing realities. Curate and build your high-impact professional career at Wabash!

Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for its associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied equally to similarly situated associates.