Arbetsbeskrivning

At Lyten, we believe the most meaningful careers begin with purpose — and with people who want to make a difference. We’re not just developing advanced supermaterials — we’re about to change the world as we know it, reshaping how energy is stored, how products are built, and how progress is made.

We’re entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators.

Apply now to join our team and be part of something bigger than yourself — where collaboration, creativity, and purpose come together to build the technologies that will define the next century.

Key Responsibilities

Overall areas of responsibilities and activities

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

• Business Partnering: Support joint IT/business roadmap planning and prioritization, ensuring business needs, process requirements, and improvement opportunities are clearly captured and cost-justified. Develop a comprehensive business systems roadmap for enhancements, upgrades, and cross-functional improvements. Participate in designing and delivering business system solutions that strengthen operational performance while optimizing costs. Monitor process and tool performance and recommend data-driven improvements that increase business value and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Operational Leadership: Lead and guide internal and external contributors involved in business systems delivery, including operations, maintenance, and continuous improvements. Coordinate with relevant subject matter experts to align solution design with business requirements while managing costs and resource allocation efficiently. Maintain documentation of processes, systems, and target capabilities. Proactively ensure all operational business systems deliver intended value and support structured prioritization of initiatives. Tactically perform system configurations, troubleshooting, and issue resolution to maintain operational continuity.
• Strategic Architecture & Governance: Ensure alignment between business needs, system developments, and the company's Business, Digital & IT Strategy. Lead and drive changes to the business systems architecture to support evolving business requirements and cost optimization. Maintain effective governance routines with clear principles, standards, and decision-making structures for business systems. Monitor industry trends and system roadmaps to inform future direction and strategic planning. Participate in the Change Advisory Board for changes impacting the business systems landscape, ensuring architectural integrity and cost-effectiveness.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Provide leadership in clarifying requirements, shaping solution direction, and supporting delivery execution with hands-on technical involvement when needed. Lead cross-functional collaboration to achieve agreed system and process outcomes and guide stakeholders towards best practices. Translate business-driven needs into actionable work packages and support teams during implementation. Actively participate in business-driven projects with system dependencies, including tactical configuration work and operational problem-solving.
• Integration & Standards: Ensure that business system integrations follow established standards and effective architectural and process conventions. Identify and challenge unnecessary customization and promote harmonization across the systems landscape to reduce costs and complexity. Support the definition of integration guidelines, naming conventions, and data flow clarity. Drive consistency, reusability, and alignment across all business systems. Take responsibility for architectural changes that improve system efficiency, reduce technical debt, and optimize operational costs.
• Cost Optimization & Value Management: Monitor and optimize business systems costs including licensing, infrastructure, and operational expenses. Identify opportunities for cost reduction through system consolidation, automation, and process improvements. Ensure all business system investments and changes deliver measurable ROI and align with budget constraints. Balance cost efficiency with system performance and business value delivery.
• Hands-On Technical Execution: Despite the senior nature of the role, tactically and operationally perform system configurations, customizations, and optimizations as needed. Directly troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues to maintain system availability and performance. Provide hands-on support during critical implementations, upgrades, and incidents to ensure business continuity.

Accountability/Authorization

• Budget responsibility: No
• Direct reports: No

Requirements

Educational background and previous experience required for the role.

• 8+ years of experience in business systems, program management, digital transformation, or enterprise process improvement.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and delivering complex system initiatives in fast-paced environments.
• Experience working with enterprise business systems (ERP, HRIS, PLM, MES, Finance, Supply Chain systems or similar).
• Strong experience with stakeholder management, requirements definition, and structured prioritization.
• Experience working in rapid-growth, change-heavy environments with diverse stakeholder landscapes.

Specific skills

• Strong program and project management capabilities with the ability to structure, steer and deliver system initiatives.
• Ability to translate business needs into system requirements and guide delivery teams toward effective solutions.
• Understanding enterprise system architecture principles and integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of ITSM processes including incident, problem, and change management.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to engage stakeholders on system strategy and value contribution.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Personal success factors

• Strategic, structured, and analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership across diverse technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to build trust and influence without formal authority.
• Proactive, adaptable, and capable of navigating ambiguity while maintaining clarity for others.
• Strong communicator able to articulate complex topics in simple and actionable terms.