What are the responsibilities and job description for the eCommerce Platform Delivery Manager position at BJU Press?
ROLE SUMMARY: Provide leadership, coordination, and accountability across BJU Press’s Microsoft-based enterprise platforms—including eCommerce and marketing technology platforms, ERP (Microsoft Finance & Supply Chain), and related business systems. Serve as the central delivery and problem-resolution leader, ensuring that work is properly vetted, prioritized, approved, and executed. This role will translate strategy into disciplined execution—balancing operational stability with ongoing digital transformation. This role provides leadership across internal teams, contractors, and external partners and may directly supervise employees as the function evolves. It establishes delivery standards, enforces governance discipline, and serves as an escalation point for complex, high-impact issues.
About Bju Press & The Role
Vision: We want Christian education to be transformational in the lives of students as they grow in their faith and knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Mission: We produce transformational products and services for Christian educators.
Brand Promise: We empower educators to prepare students to live in light of eternity.
About the Team: The purpose of the Marketing team is to promote BJU Press K-12 educational materials with a biblical worldview for Christian schools and homeschools.
Our Core functions are: To produce deliverables to promote sales of BJU Press education materials and platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Required Experience:
About Bju Press & The Role
Vision: We want Christian education to be transformational in the lives of students as they grow in their faith and knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Mission: We produce transformational products and services for Christian educators.
Brand Promise: We empower educators to prepare students to live in light of eternity.
About the Team: The purpose of the Marketing team is to promote BJU Press K-12 educational materials with a biblical worldview for Christian schools and homeschools.
Our Core functions are: To produce deliverables to promote sales of BJU Press education materials and platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Own intake, triage, and prioritization of platform requests; determine urgency, business impact, and appropriate path forward (defect, enhancement, process change, or training)
- Ensure work does not begin without appropriate documentation, prioritization, and approval; enforce scope, hours, and change-control discipline
- Evaluate solution options before development begins, including standard configuration, integration, process adjustment, or training versus custom development
- Serve as the primary point of coordination across business teams, internal IT, and external partners (e.g., RSM, MAS, Microsoft)
- Lead delivery of approved initiatives across eCommerce, marketing platforms, ERP, and integrated business systems
- Manage dependencies, risks, and bottlenecks; proactively resolve issues that delay progress or threaten outcomes
- Oversee testing, release readiness, go-live coordination, and post-launch stabilization for platform changes
- Provide clear status reporting and executive-level updates on delivery health, risks, timelines, and scope
- Strong delivery and project management skills with the ability to lead work across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Working understanding of Microsoft-based enterprise platforms, including ERP, eCommerce, marketing systems, integrations, and data flows
- Ability to diagnose issues at a systems level and drive root-cause resolution rather than surface fixes
- Clear, confident communicator able to facilitate meetings, document decisions, and drive closure
- High degree of ownership, judgment, and follow-through
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Required Experience:
- 3 years of experience in platform delivery, enterprise systems project management, or business systems leadership