NetSuite Platform Owner

NetSuite Platform Owner / Senior NetSuite Administrator

Location: Remote — Candidates must reside in the Central or Eastern Time Zone (CT/ET)

Travel: Up to 15–20% as needed

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Our Client is seeking an experienced NetSuite Platform Owner / Senior NetSuite Administrator to own, optimize, and continuously improve our NetSuite environment supporting a growing industrial manufacturing organization.

This is a remote position, but candidates must be able to work effectively with teams primarily operating in the Central or Eastern Time Zones and be willing and able to travel periodically to company facilities, manufacturing sites, and/or corporate offices.

Key Responsibilities

NetSuite Platform Ownership

• Own the overall administration, configuration, performance, security, and roadmap of the NetSuite platform.
• Serve as the primary internal subject-matter expert and point of contact for NetSuite.
• Develop and maintain a strategic NetSuite roadmap aligned with business growth and operational priorities.
• Establish platform governance, standards, documentation, and change-management processes.
• Evaluate new NetSuite releases, features, SuiteApps, integrations, and capabilities and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Manage relationships with NetSuite, implementation partners, consultants, and other technology vendors.

Administration & Configuration

• Configure and maintain NetSuite modules, workflows, forms, roles, permissions, dashboards, saved searches, reports, and custom records.
• Manage users, roles, permissions, access controls, and segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Troubleshoot system issues and identify root causes while minimizing business disruption.
• Manage NetSuite releases, testing, deployments, and ongoing system maintenance.
• Maintain a structured development, testing, and production environment/change-management process.

Manufacturing & Operations

• Support NetSuite capabilities across manufacturing, inventory, procurement, supply chain, order management, warehouse operations, and financial processes.
• Partner with operations and manufacturing teams to identify opportunities to automate and improve business processes.
• Support and optimize functionality related to items, BOMs, work orders, routings, inventory, purchasing, demand planning, costing, fulfillment, and production processes.
• Translate business requirements into scalable NetSuite solutions.
• Help standardize processes across multiple facilities, business units, and/or operating companies.

Integrations & Technical Enablement

• Own and oversee integrations between NetSuite and other enterprise applications.
• Work with developers and integration partners on APIs, SuiteScript, SuiteTalk, middleware, and third-party applications.
• Monitor integration performance and troubleshoot failures and data-quality issues.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to establish appropriate architecture and integration standards.

Reporting, Data & Analytics

• Develop and maintain NetSuite reporting, dashboards, saved searches, KPIs, and operational analytics.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to ensure accurate and reliable reporting.
• Help establish data governance and maintain data integrity across the platform.
• Identify opportunities to improve visibility into financial and operational performance.

Business Partnership & Project Leadership

• Partner with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, and other functional leaders to understand business needs.
• Lead NetSuite-related projects from requirements gathering through design, testing, deployment, and adoption.
• Translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Provide training, documentation, and ongoing support to NetSuite users.
• Manage competing priorities while maintaining a strong focus on business impact and user experience.