Hiring Company:

Delicatessen Services Co., LLC

Overview:A Boars Head IT Senior Project Manager (SPM) is a senior resource that is a direct report to the Senior Director of Applications. The SPM will identify, develop, and deliver technology projects that are in alignment with the companys top goals. At times, this job may require providing 7x24x365 production support to existing enterprise applications.

Job Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Management and Leadership:

This is a senior role, capable of seamlessly delivering any aspect of the SDLC (system development life cycle) primarily doing this through leading technology staff and/or outside vendors. The selected candidate will:

Manage four (4) to eight (8) or more Boars Head employees; these employees will be from multiple paygrades and/or bands Manage multiple and diverse outside vendors including: SaaS, consultants and contractors Manages multiple, large-scale, concurrent projects Support multiple business areas Provide executive management briefings and updates (Sr. Director, Managing Director, VP or above) across multiple business segments Have relevant and recent technical and managerial experience and skills

The SPM is also responsible for working closely with the Infrastructure team, security team and Enterprise Architect to ensure recommendations and identified technology solutions are in alignment with the current and future infrastructure, security and architecture. The SPM also develops necessary business cases that effectively illustrate the value of the need for new technical innovation and applications/tools.

Solution Development:

This candidate is responsible for driving idea generation, strategic needs analysis and evaluation our business units operational efficiencies needs and map that to existing and/or or emerging technologies that can help improve. This includes solution identification/selection, process improvements to technology innovation best practices, design and development of the necessary requirements, functional specifications, and process artifacts to support system development efforts to drive and implement strategic solutions.

Identify and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, and problems.

Analyze and define resource requirements (skills needed for implementation, infrastructure components, etc.) to support implementation and future growth/scalability of IT solutions

Develops and maintains a thorough understanding of business operations, identifying opportunities for operational efficiency through automation and effective utilization of existing or newly acquired (or built) software applications and packages.

Build and reengineer core business processes to enable standardization and optimal effectiveness

An ideal candidate will lead complex technology project from planning, design, development, and implementation. An ideal candidate will also be comfortable in any business area, including Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Distribution Operations, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and HR.

Analytical & Design Duties:

Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts in information gathered, ability to decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs and then transfers the same knowledge to development team.

Help facilitate Gap-Fit Analysis Evaluate current state, proposed future state, identify any gaps, and provide advice and recommendations for achieving the desired future state and minimize potentially negative downstream limitations with other Oracle modules or legacy systems.

Drive the identification of technology partners that can address identified gaps (to include assisting in contract negotiations SOW scope statements etc.).

Help Broker signoff on functional requirements and process documentation from the appropriate business process owners and all key impacted stakeholders.

Communication:

Demonstrates strong oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively interact with all levels of the Business and IT teams

Demonstrates strong written communications skills, including the ability to produce clear and concise recommendations, business requirements and/or functional specifications

Facilitates large scale meetings with all levels of the company, clearly articulating objectives and identified next steps

Communicates technical concepts and issues to non-technical people

Interacts with all levels of the company with patience, courtesy, diplomacy, and professionalism

Education and Experience:

A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration /Accounting/Financials required

Masters degree preferred

8-12 years' experience in supporting and delivering web, mobile, or enterprise tool suite. Experience with Oracle EBS considered a plus

Experience working in a Manufacturing and/or Distribution company a plus.

Experience with Agile methodology preferable

Ability to articulate business and technology needs/constraints to IT members and end users alike

Hands-on Technical experience:

Working knowledge of PL/SQL

Knowledge of DB tables, views, and schema objects

Understanding of reporting/analytics tools

Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS) or Web & Mobile Technologies, or analytics and data mining

Hands on experience and proficiency with the full Microsoft Office Suite and tools such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, RavenFlow, SmartDraw, Trello, Jira.

Demonstrated history of project management of successful software/applications efforts

Self-starter/motivator and having a proactive and strategic mindset are a must

Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills

Strong Collaboration and Coalition Building Skills

Other responsibilities as assigned

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

System/Tool Certifications (or willingness to achieve a certification) in project management methodologies such as PMP and other industry recognized methodologies such as SCRUM

Location:

Sarasota, FL

Travel:

Occasional travel (10% or less)

Time Type:

Full time

Location:Sarasota, FL

Time Type:Full time

Department:Management Information Systems

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