Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) – the leading destination for innovative management thinking. We reach lifelong learners to improve the practice of management in a changing world. This mission inspires each of us to unlock the leader in everyone – including you!
The opportunity:
The Senior Director of Business Systems is a key leadership role responsible for shaping the company's strategic vision for enterprise business systems. This role will oversee the implementation, management, and optimization of platforms with a focus on HR and financial systems (e.g., Workday) and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce). This role is accountable for aligning technology solutions with overarching business objectives, driving operational excellence, fostering innovation, and championing a culture of continuous improvement to ensure the organization’s long-term success and scalability.
What you’ll do:
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Collaborate with senior leaders to shape the strategic vision of enterprise business systems, ensuring alignment with the company's long-term growth and transformation objectives.
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Lead the end-to-end strategy and execution for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing critical business systems, ensuring they exceed performance expectations while meeting evolving organizational needs.
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Lead and inspire the business systems teams to achieve exceptional results while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and operational excellence.
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Cultivate and strengthen strategic vendor partnerships to maximize value, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
What you’ll bring:
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12+ years of experience in IT management, with a focus on business systems.
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Proven knowledge and experience with HR and financial systems (e.g., Workday), and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce). Marketing systems and e-commerce platform experience an advantage.
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Extensive experience leading teams and influencing business stakeholders.
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Excellent project management and organizational skills.
You’ll stand out if you have:
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Led cross-functional teams and leveraged data-driven insights to drive strategic decisions
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Worked for media or education technology companies
What we offer:
As a mission-driven global company, Harvard Business Publishing is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, trust, and engagement where everyone is welcome, valued, respected, and feels they belong. In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits package, we offer meaningful programs focused on career development and employee wellness, such as education reimbursement and early-release Summer Fridays!
HBP is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
$185,000 - $205,000
Above is the annualized pay range for this position. In addition, this position includes the opportunity to earn our annual Performance Based Variable Pay Program. Actual salary will be set based upon a range of factors, including external benchmark market data, individual knowledge, skills, experience, location and internal equity.
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What We Do
At Harvard Business Publishing, we believe in the power of leadership to inspire, to transform, and to advance the global good. We empower leaders with breakthrough ideas that solve problems, that elevate performance, and that unlock the leader in everyone. We help leaders move the world forward.
Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. We inform and inspire professionals, corporations, educators, and students around the world with the best in management thinking and practice. Through our articles, books, case studies, simulations, videos, learning programs, and digital tools, we reach thousands of organizations and millions of subscribers and social media followers.
With over 600 employees located in Boston (HQ), New York City, Australia, France, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, we serve as a bridge between academia and enterprises around the globe.
Our three market units—Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group—produce a variety of media including print and digital (Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review Press books, Harvard Business School cases), events (participant-centered learning seminars, custom events, webinars), digital learning (Harvard ManageMentor, HMM Spark), blended learning, and campus experiences. Through these platforms, HBP is able to influence real-world change by maximizing the reach and impact of its essential offering—ideas.
Working at Harvard Business Publishing brings you into a global, dynamic organization that’s constantly discovering—new markets, new technologies and media platforms, and new groundbreaking ideas. You’ll find your co-workers intellectually curious and highly engaged. We collaborate. We experiment. We are always learning
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