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Program Manager, Made-to-Order Engagement Rings
Location: Whippany, NJ (hybrid, minimum 3 days/week onsite)
Type: Contract, 12 months
Job Overview
This is a high-visibility, enterprise-wide transformation with a target go-live of Q3 2027. It spans Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Retail, Product, Legal, Finance, and IT. The end-to-end business process map is underway.
Our client is looking for a seasoned Program Manager who can step in on day one and lead it. You'll keep a large cross-functional team aligned on requirements and build a realistic plan across many systems, workflows, and IT teams.
What You'll Do
- Own the program plan. Build the preliminary timeline that the steering committee is waiting for, then manage it through go-live.
- Run governance. Lead 7 working groups, present to the Project Committee, maintain the decision log, and drive biweekly decision sign-off.
- Drive requirements. Complete the end-to-end business process map, then lead detailed business requirements that IT can build from.
- Align business and IT. Make sure every process stage has a named business owner, a named IT owner, and a clear system plan.
- Manage risks and escalations. Track risks and dependencies, and escalate decisions that working groups can't resolve.
- Coordinate key decisions across workstreams:
- Diamond supply: stone storage, reservation, and tariff impacts
- Manufacturing: agile line setup and DDMRP planning
- Retail: the in-store selling journey and Client Advisor tools
- Product: styles, SKUs, master data, and pricing
- Legal and compliance: returns policy and international shipping
- Serve as the single point of contact for leadership and operating teams.
What You Bring
Required
- Make-to-order, build-to-order, or configure-to-order experience. You've run or designed a personalization model, not only make-to-stock.
- A luxury or high-value product background. Jewelry or watches are ideal; other luxury goods or high-value products with serialized components are also relevant.
- 10 years leading cross-functional programs, largely in manufacturing, retail, or luxury.
- A track record delivering multi-year, multi-system programs across several departments, with reporting to a steering committee.
- Supply chain and manufacturing knowledge, including pull-based planning and DDMRP, critical-inventory control, lead times and service levels, and international shipping of high-value goods.
- Hands-on process and requirements skills. You can facilitate workshops, map business processes, and write requirements developers can build from.
- Systems fluency across ERP, warehouse, planning, and retail selling tools, and comfort working with IT on integrations.
- Consulting presence. You lead through influence without direct authority and are credible with executives from day one.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with stakeholders across the US, Europe, and Asia.
Nice to Have
- Retail rollout and change management across a store network, including training and phased launches
- Product master data, bills of material, and SKU and pricing setup
- Returns policy and compliance work across countries, including EU regulations
- PMP or another program management certification
Systems Environment
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (E1), the core ERP across nearly every workstream
- Blue Yonder / APS (planning)
- Anaplan (pricing)
- Manhattan Active WM (warehouse)
- IBM Sterling (order management)