Vice President of Business Systems at Ramp Talent

Our client, Colibri Group, is looking for a Vice President of Business Systems. See details below.

VP of Business Systems

Role Overview:

Colibri seeks an experienced and execution-oriented VP of Business Systems to lead strategic modernization and integration of our enterprise technology landscape as part of our critical "Farside" initiative. This executive will strategically oversee core corporate applications—including ERP (Workday), CRM (Salesforce), MarTech, HRIS, and key business systems—ensuring seamless integration within Colibri’s broader technology ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has extensive leadership experience in enterprise technology, deep expertise in Salesforce and Workday, and a strong record of executing complex corporate technology transformations at scale. Critically, this leader will possess significant experience managing fragmented M&A scenarios, prioritizing integrations based on clear value capture, simplifying complexity, and demonstrating proven success rapidly accelerating integration outcomes from multiple acquisitions. Leveraging global internal teams and strategic partnerships, this role proactively delivers tangible business outcomes, operational excellence, and differentiated capabilities that build competitive moats for Colibri.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Ownership of Corporate Applications

• Lead strategic planning, implementation, and operational excellence across Colibri’s corporate technology portfolio, including ERP (Workday), CRM (Salesforce), MarTech, HRIS, and core business SaaS applications.
• Ensure strategic alignment and seamless integration of corporate applications with broader Colibri technology capabilities (AI, Data, Payments, LMS), enhancing competitive differentiation and operational agility.

2. Execution Discipline and Integration Leadership

• Drive rigorous, structured execution discipline—delivering transformation milestones, simplifying complexity, clarifying strategic priorities, and ensuring rapid, measurable outcomes.
• Effectively integrate internal enterprise systems with core Colibri capabilities, delivering leverage, efficiency gains, and competitive advantage.

3. Proven Transformation Leadership

• Leverage extensive experience successfully delivering large-scale enterprise transformations (Salesforce, Workday) across ERP, CRM, corporate applications, and business systems.
• Draw on deep professional connections, industry best practices, and benchmarks, leveraging peer insights to enhance transformation effectiveness.

4. Accelerating M&A Integrations

• Successfully manage fragmented and undigested acquisitions, clearly prioritizing integration efforts based on strategic and financial value.
• Rapidly simplify, rationalize, and accelerate integration processes, demonstrating proven capability to streamline multiple complex integrations concurrently.

5. Cross-Functional Partnership and Collaboration

• Actively partner with Colibri’s Product Management, Engineering, and Architecture teams, collaboratively delivering integrated, strategically differentiated solutions that build competitive market moats.
• Clearly communicate priorities, remove ambiguity, and build cohesive alignment across global internal teams and external strategic partners.

6. Leverage Global Organization and Strategic Partnerships

• Effectively leverage Colibri’s global internal teams and external partners, driving execution leverage, skillset optimization, and enhanced capacity for strategic enterprise technology initiatives.
• Develop and sustain strategic partnerships (particularly Salesforce and Workday ecosystems), enhancing execution capacity, innovation, and competitive advantage.

7. Strategic Simplification and Credible Challenge

• Proactively challenge legacy practices, credibly advocating simplification, clarity, and structured optimization of complex enterprise systems and business processes.
• Demonstrate credible thought leadership and strategic clarity, rapidly gaining buy-in and driving transformational simplification.

8. Financial Discipline and Value Capture

• Apply rigorous financial discipline, prioritizing technology investments demonstrating measurable ROI, operational efficiency, cost savings, and direct EBITDA contribution.
• Identify and execute strategic opportunities for financial optimization, cost rationalization, pricing optimization, and clear value capture.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Enterprise Systems Expert: Extensive leadership experience and deep expertise in enterprise corporate applications—specifically Salesforce (CRM), Workday (ERP), MarTech, and HRIS platforms—with a strong record delivering measurable transformation outcomes.
• Execution-Focused Leader: Proven ability driving structured, rigorous execution discipline, simplifying complexity, clarifying priorities, and delivering credible outcomes.
• Experienced M&A Integrator: Demonstrated expertise managing fragmented M&A scenarios, prioritizing integrations based on clear strategic value, and rapidly simplifying complex acquisition integrations.
• Proven Transformation Track Record: Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformations leveraging Salesforce, Workday, and related corporate systems, delivering strategic alignment, operational efficiencies, and business impact.
• Collaborative Cross-Functional Partner: Exceptional capability partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and executive stakeholders, delivering integrated solutions and strategic value.
• Strategic Global Leverage: Experienced in building and leveraging global internal organizations and strategic partnerships, particularly within Salesforce and Workday ecosystems, enhancing execution capacity and competitive differentiation.
• Credible Industry Connector: Strong industry connections and credible peer relationships, drawing on best practices, benchmarks, and strategic insights to accelerate enterprise transformation effectiveness.
• Strategic Simplifier and Challenger: Adept at credibly challenging status quo, consistently advocating simplicity, clarity, and structured optimization of enterprise systems and processes.

First-Year Outcomes (Including Farside and M&A Context):

• Defined the enterprise blue print for enterprise transformation, delivering measurable progress in ERP (Workday), CRM (Salesforce), MarTech, and corporate application modernization.
• Demonstrated significant acceleration and simplification of integrations from multiple fragmented acquisitions, clearly prioritized based on strategic value and measurable impact.
• Enhanced internal operational efficiency, business process redesign, and scalability, as measured through operational KPIs, financial metrics, and strategic outcomes.
• Established integrated frameworks and execution discipline, connecting Colibri’s enterprise systems with broader technology capabilities (AI, Data, Payments, LMS), enhancing competitive differentiation.
• Gained leverage on execution and procurement based on knowledge of industry and vendor benchmarks
• Leveraged strategic global internal teams and external partnerships (Salesforce, Workday) to accelerate execution, innovation, and measurable transformation outcomes.
• Credibly challenged and simplified legacy processes, delivering measurable operational complexity reductions, improved strategic clarity, and enhanced business agility.
• Improved financial performance through disciplined prioritization, cost efficiencies, resource optimization, and strategic investments in enterprise technology.