Role Purpose

The Engineering Manager leads manages and oversees the engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining the companys Enterprise Resource Planning system (Applicom) and integrations to internal Warehouse Management System (WMS) and integrations to external Clients systems. The primary goal is to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality integration solutions. You will manage several teams of engineers overseeing project requirements task delegation and ensuring excellence in project deliveries.

This is a critical leadership role that spans coaching product and engineering best practices tooling process measurement and cross-functional collaboration to deliver business value efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities

Delivery & Operational Excellence

Accountable for engineering delivery outcomes across ERP integration platforms and WMS-facing services.

Owns engineering delivery standards technical quality gates and release readiness.

Ownership and management of the development toolset for TSFM teams

Accountable for team capacity planning delivery predictability and technical risk management working with the project delivery team.

Oversee the customization of Azure DevOps work items (Epics Features User Stories and work with Test team to ensure integration with Qtest) to align with organizational processes.

Align delivery objectives with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) ensuring transparency and measurable outcomes.

Collaborate with Business Analysis Pre-sales Consultants Solution Architecture Technical teams Quality & Test and Service teams.

Stakeholder & Customer Impact

Supports presales and solution shaping activities with credible delivery input and risk assessment.

Ensures engineering decisions consider commercial impact operational cost and customer experience.

Acts as a senior engineering representative with internal and external stakeholders including clients and partners.

Engineering & Technical Leadership

Define and implement engineering best practices including peer review test-driven development code repositories pipelines and work with test team on defects.

Foster technology innovation and prototyping in collaboration with product teams to drive growth and explore new opportunities using AI capabilities.

Standardize and oversee the end-to-end delivery process from intake to business value realisation.

Oversee the delivery pipeline ensuring efficient workflows through agreed toolsets for IT practice.

Define lead and embed a standardized Agile delivery framework across the organization.

Drive adoption of Agile principles and practices ensuring alignment with business values outcomes and value streams.

Promote a culture of continuous improvement collaboration and innovation across all teams.

Work with the Cencora Agile Transformation team to deliver relevant Agile training to Alloga team members over time.

Job holder specification

Ability to work as part of an international team

Can do attitude with strong accountability and ownership. Comfortable with a fast pace and switching between competing priorities.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to multi-task

Ability to work under pressure and deal with ambiguity but retain focus on results

Passionate about delivering excellent standard of delivery

Strong written and verbal communications skills

Strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills

Ability to influence effectively

Good collaboration skills and team working

Creative thinker able to successfully contribute to a team whilst being self-motivated with the ability to use your own initiative

Balance attention to detail with the ability to follow through to completion

English and French language skills

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Enterprise middleware technology experience for 3PL/4PL in pharmaceutical wholesale and/or logistics industry

10 years of software engineering experience with 3 years in a leadership or management role.

Experience in leading managing and scaling engineering teams.

Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team of engineers. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.

Excellent communication skills capable of effectively liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills capable of addressing technical personnel and project-related challenges.

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Desirable

Experience working with Applicom ERP Opentext ECS & Delta and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Working for a large multinational matrix organisation

Fostering collaboration to align teams to common ways of working

Experience of implementing and working with observability platforms such as New Relic

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity genetic information national origin age disability veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal state or local law.

The companys continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting training compensation benefits promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment please call 888.692.2272 or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned