Global Enterprise Applications Project Manager

The Global Enterprise Applications Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, execution, and successful delivery of a portfolio of multiple projects supporting enterprise applications across the organization. This role serves as a pivotal link between business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership, ensuring that enterprise application projects are delivered efficiently, on time, and aligned with strategic objectives. The successful candidate will possess a strong background in agile project management, a deep understanding of enterprise application ecosystems, and the ability to manage cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams.

This is a remote opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise application projects using Agile techniques and methodologies.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of global application initiatives using agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), ensuring iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, solution architects, and engineering teams to define project scope, objectives, and success metrics.
• Oversee the creation, prioritization, and maintenance of the project backlog in partnership with product owners. Facilitate requirement gathering, user story refinement, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Organize and lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Track progress toward sprint goals and manage barriers to delivery.
• Guide and motivate distributed project teams comprising application developers, analysts, QA, and other specialists. Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks and issues. Communicate status, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Champion agile best practices, process optimization, and innovation within the enterprise applications organization.
• Deliver regular project status updates, dashboards, and executive summaries to global stakeholders and leadership.
• Support organizational readiness and adoption of new enterprise applications through effective change management and training initiatives.
• Guide and assist internal and vendor development teams.
• Assist in managing platform and delivery vendors. Stay current with platform innovations and actively seek opportunities to adopt new features.
• Model the Corporate Values (Integrity, Passion, Creativity, Perseverance, and Achievement) and Principles.

Qualifications:

• 10 years' experience in enterprise applications delivery roles, with a minimum of 5 as project or program manager. Experience with large-scale enterprise application implementations.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills.
• Dynamic communication skills.
• Passion for enterprise applications platforms and delivery.
• Strong relationship building and collaboration skills.
• Experience with modern enterprise applications platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce).
• Global manufacturing or similar industry experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

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