VP, Enterprise Applications

Blue Yonder Title:

Vice President, Enterprise Applications

Location:

US - Remote

***Ability to travel up to 25% depending on location***

Overview:

This position will be reporting into the Chief Information Officer. The Digital Workforce (DW)-focused Enterprise Application Leader (EAL) will oversee the development and enhancement of strategic roadmaps, as well as the deployment and management of applications to better engage and equip employees for modern work.  They will lead with a team accountable for all aspects of Application Delivery, Data Management, Business Application and Data Strategies including Business Transformation, Cognitive and Generative AI.

Scope:

Responsibilities will include developing strategic DW roadmaps, managing the deployment and support of DW applications, encouraging adoption of these applications, fostering workers’ digital dexterity, and elevating employees’ digital experiences. The DW-focused EAL will also optimize costs, ensure adherence to security protocols, and use analytics to monitor and report on application performance. This leadership position demands a blend of technical knowledge, strategic thinking and strong management skills

Responsible for leading all aspects of configuration, development and support for internally created or vendor supplied application software, including the development methodologies, technologies (language and support tools), development, testing hardware/software environments, change and configuration management and management of the application staff and project workload.  This position will also be responsible for coordinating with all lines of business on their application requirements.

What you will do:

• This position will provide leadership and vision along with continuous advancements aiding in the advancement of business value and business optimization.
• Transforming Blue Yonder to a leading SaaS organization by enabling business agility and maintaining strong vendor and technology partner relationships.
• Ensures that key metrics are provided to measure internal and external operational level agreements to provide quality, reliable applications; including SaaS, data warehousing, business intelligence and machine learning.
• The VP applications will interface closely and develop strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, executive leadership, internal department heads, vendors and partners.
• Accountable for performance, relationships, contracts and cost structures pertaining to delivery of technology solutions supporting our internal business.  
• The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong technical and business acumen which placed equal balance on business enablement and customer service.
• Continuous improvement of existing processes and solutions with an innovative mindset that will lead to efficiencies, increased compliance and reduction in overall support needs via automation.
• This global role will lead resources across all geographic regions while driving a cultural shift to DevOps and Agile delivery.

• Partner with C-suite and their direct leadership teams to create a robust Business Capability and Enterprise Application roadmaps. Drives awareness, marketing of the roadmap and supporting projects while aligning with overall corporate objectives. Take the abstract of this roadmap down to threads of executional framework.
• Aligns with key stakeholders to refine business cases and success criteria for emerging projects, ensuring that  initiatives align with technical roadmaps while delivering anticipated ROI.
• Oversee the success of Application Development projects in alignment with Enterprise portfolio and integrated with Blue Yonder short term and long-term goals.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to understand current and future requirements; suggest solutions and alternatives – Transformation of business processes through technology.
• Routinely engages with external resources, peers and partners to bring innovative, external best practice ideas to all areas of Blue Yonder business.
• Implementation of standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and reliability of applications, software, data and other technology solutions.
• Establish and operationalize business value driven metrics, operational metrics and SLAs to support reliable, efficient operating capabilities.
• Manage large programs, capital and operating budgets.
• Ensure Application Development initiatives and projects are well executed, striving to make and