Senior ERP Owner

Senior ERP Owner

Job Family: Information Technology

Business Unit: DLF Finance & IT

Location: Smørum, DK

About DLF

DLF is a Danish-owned, global company that develops, produces, and primarily sells grass seeds for agriculture, sports, leisure facilities, and private customers. We supply seeds in more than 100 countries and have employees in more than 18 countries. Our headquarters is in Smørum, outside of Copenhagen. We have more than 2,000 employees worldwide.

"We enrich land, life and people through seeds and science"

About the Role

DLF is looking for a Global ERP Owner & Transformation Lead to take ownership of our global ERP landscape and play a leading role in our upcoming ERP transformation.

DLF is embarking on an important journey to modernize and replace its ERP platform across global operations. Today, our ERP landscape is centered on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018, and our future platform will be Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We are looking for an experienced Senior ERP Owner who can combine strategic thinking, strong business process understanding, and people leadership to drive this transformation while ensuring that the current ERP environment continues to support the business effectively.

You will own the ERP roadmap, processes, governance, and future direction of a landscape currently centered on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018. You will ensure that the existing platform remains stable and fit for purpose while leading the transition to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. You will lead and develop a team of ERP Specialists and work closely with business leaders, process owners, implementation partners, architects, and IT colleagues to design and implement DLF's future global ERP platform.

This role reports to the Global Head of IT Applications and is part of the Global IT organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the ERP vision, roadmap, lifecycle, backlog, and continuous improvement agenda.

• Act as the primary IT partner for Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Operations, and other ERP-enabled business functions.

• Prioritize enhancements, projects, and improvement initiatives based on business value, risk, cost, dependencies, and strategic objectives.

• Ensure the current ERP environment remains stable, secure, supportable, and fit for purpose throughout the transformation journey.

• Provide ownership and direction across the current Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 landscape, the future Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, and relevant adjacent business applications.

• Play a leading role in the design, implementation, and global rollout of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as DLF's future ERP platform.

• Partner with business process owners, architects, project leadership, and implementation partners to shape scalable and standardized solutions.

• Support global template governance, fit-gap activities, testing, training, deployment readiness, adoption, and stabilization.

• Balance global design principles and process harmonization with legitimate regional and regulatory requirements.

• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of ERP Specialists.

• Set clear priorities, accountability, and ways of working across operational support and transformation activities.

• Build long-term internal ERP capabilities through mentoring, knowledge sharing, documentation, and structured development of ERP leads.

• Lead solution discussions and guide stakeholders toward scalable, standardized, and supportable processes and solutions.

• Govern ERP-related vendors, service providers, implementation partners, and support arrangements.

• Communicate priorities, decisions, risks, dependencies, service performance, and trade-offs clearly across business and IT.

• Ensure solutions follow agreed architecture, security, data, documentation, release, and operational standards.

Who Are You?

We are looking for a senior ERP professional who thrives at the intersection of business processes, technology, people leadership, and global transformation. You can set strategic direction and governance while also engaging in detailed discussions when decisions require practical ERP knowledge.

Experience and Skills:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in ERP consulting, product ownership, application management, solution consulting, or ERP transformation.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and/or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

• Proven experience with international ERP implementations, major upgrades, or multi-country rollouts.

• People leadership experience, including the development and coordination of specialist or functional teams.

• Strong understanding of business processes across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory Management, Manufacturing, and Operations.

• Experience working with implementation partners, software vendors, and distributed cross-functional teams.

• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.

• Ability to combine strategic direction with structured execution and pragmatic decision-making.

• Fluency in English.

Global Reach and Travel

The position is global and supports DLF operations across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. International travel is expected, particularly during design, implementation, rollout, and change-enablement activities. Flexibility to collaborate across time zones is important.

How to Apply

We screen and hold interviews continuously, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested.

At DLF, we want to promote equality and diversity. Therefore, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply, regardless of background, gender, or age.