Project Manager, Application Rationalization

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Senior Project Manager – Application Rationalization

Overview

LABUR is partnering with a client to identify a Senior Project Manager – Application Rationalization to lead an enterprise-wide application rationalization program, including execution within mergers, acquisitions, and corporate separation activities. This senior, hands-on role drives complex, multi-year initiatives focused on reducing application footprint, cost, and risk while enabling platform standardization and alignment to target-state architectures. A key focus involves managing the transition of acquired software applications into the client's environment, where speed, clarity, and separation readiness are critical. The position coordinates across IT, business functions, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Finance, and third-party partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end application rationalization program, owning outcomes, timelines, budget, and realized benefits across multiple domains and geographies
• Drive application portfolio assessment, validation, and disposition decisioning (retain, retire, consolidate, replace, migrate) aligned to enterprise standards and target-state architectures
• Manage the transition of acquired software applications into the client's environment, overseeing migrations, consolidations, retirements, and decommissioning
• Own program-level financial management, partnering with Finance to quantify, track, and report cost savings and run-cost reduction
• Establish and run program governance, steering committees, and executive decision forums while delivering clear, regular status reporting to senior leadership
• Proactively manage risks, issues, and interdependencies across the application and transformation portfolio, driving structured change management to minimize business disruption
• Manage system integrators and third-party vendors, holding partners accountable to scope, milestones, and outcomes across assessment, migration, and decommissioning phases
• Maintain a single source of truth for application portfolio status, disposition outcomes, and all supporting documentation
  
  

Qualifications

• 10 years of technology project or program management experience with hands-on waterfall and agile methodology expertise
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale application rationalization or portfolio optimization initiatives
• Direct experience supporting M&A activity, including application integration, separation, or spinoff scenarios, strongly preferred
• Proven ability to operate in highly complex, time-constrained environments with executive visibility, driving clarity and decisions under ambiguity
• Strong financial acumen encompassing benefits realization, cost takeout initiatives, and multi-vendor delivery model management
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and decision-driving skills with the ability to influence through collaboration
• Proficiency with MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office tools
  
  

Compensation

$80-$90/hr - Dependent on fit and experience