IT Project Manager - Business Applications & Transformation
About The Position
KiddeFenwal is seeking a hands-on IT Project Manager to lead enterprise application and business transformation initiatives across its global organization. The role partners with business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and implementation partners to deliver solutions supporting growth, operational excellence, digital transformation, and business process improvement. Initiatives may involve ERP systems, enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, data and reporting solutions, AI-enabled capabilities, process automation, and systems integration. The position combines project leadership, business analysis, stakeholder management, and technology delivery in a fast-paced global manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will create detailed project plans, facilitate business discussions, gather requirements, manage vendors, and drive execution across multiple workstreams. The role is based in Ashland, Massachusetts, with a hybrid schedule requiring three days in the office.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Seven or more years of project management experience delivering business and technology initiatives.
- Proven experience leading ERP, enterprise application, CRM, SaaS, or digital transformation projects.
- Demonstrated success managing projects from planning through deployment and adoption.
- Experience managing project budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and dependencies.
- Strong business analysis and requirements-gathering experience.
- Experience managing vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and changing business needs.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting manufacturing, supply chain, operations, engineering, quality, finance, customer service, or commercial functions.
- Experience with ERP platforms such as JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or similar enterprise systems.
- Experience leading systems integration, cloud, data, analytics, infrastructure modernization, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience working within private equity-backed, mid-market, or rapidly transforming organizations.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CBAP, or similar professional certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technology and business transformation initiatives.
- Develop and manage project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, milestones, and dependencies.
- Drive execution across workstreams involving internal teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, assumptions, and change requests, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.
- Establish project governance, communication plans, and executive reporting processes.
- Provide leadership teams with project status updates, business impacts, and recommendations.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges, objectives, and opportunities for technology-enabled improvements.
- Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, and requirements-gathering activities.
- Document and translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and solution recommendations.
- Conduct process mapping, gap analyses, and future-state design exercises.
- Support solution evaluation, testing, validation, and user acceptance activities.
- Define project success metrics and ensure delivered solutions meet business expectations.
- Lead ERP implementations, upgrades, and integrations; enterprise application deployments and enhancements; SaaS and cloud implementations; automation and AI-enabled solutions; data, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence initiatives; systems integration and workflow optimization; and digital transformation initiatives.
- Manage third-party vendors, consultants, implementation partners, and service providers.
- Coordinate testing, training, cutover planning, deployment, and go-live activities.
- Support organizational change management and user adoption initiatives.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure delivery against contractual commitments.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams throughout project lifecycles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
