Drive project governance, monitor milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure adherence to project schedules.
Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, and change requests while maintaining project quality.
Facilitate project status meetings, steering committee meetings, executive updates, and stakeholder communications.
Apply appropriate project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid) throughout the project lifecycle.
Ensure compliance with organizational IT governance, security policies, data governance, and implementation standards.
Collaborate with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Production Planning, Procurement, ERP, Data Engineering, and Business Intelligence teams to ensure seamless solution delivery.
Oversee testing activities, cutover planning, deployment, hypercare, and project closure.
Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, RAID logs, status reports, dashboards, and lessons learned.
Coordinate with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones and maintain scheduling flexibility.
Support additional PMO initiatives and enterprise IT projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
10+ years of experience managing enterprise IT implementation projects.
Proven experience managing Blue Yonder (formerly JDA) implementation projects, preferably involving Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Supply Planning, or Manufacturing Planning solutions.
Experience managing reporting and analytics projects involving Snowflake, Tableau, and/or Power BI.
Strong understanding of manufacturing planning, production scheduling, supply chain planning, business intelligence, and ERP integrations.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, including Data Engineering, Reporting, Business Intelligence, and ERP teams.
Strong knowledge of project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, and ServiceNow.
Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
Experience delivering projects using Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid methodologies.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
Preferred
Hands-on experience with Blue Yonder Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Supply Planning, or other Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning modules.
Experience with Snowflake data platform, Tableau, and Power BI reporting implementations.
Experience integrating Blue Yonder with ERP platforms such as SAP S/4
