Senior Manager, Engineering Enterprise Applications

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Benefits:

The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the companys discretion.

• Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage

• Employer HSA contribution

• Dental & Vision Insurance

• Paid Parental Leave

• Short & Long-Term Disability

• Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness Hospital Indemnity Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance

• 401K with generous Company match & contribution

• Accrued Paid Time Off

• 12 Paid Holidays 1 Floating Holiday

• Robust employee wellness program

• Tuition assistance program

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Management Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive strategy for Engineering Systems that supports the strategic imperatives and objectives of the function. Define and own the systems roadmap.
• Transformation Lead transformational opportunities that embrace innovation drives continual service improvement and realizes measurable business value.
• Business engagement Establish and maintain strong and productive relationships with the key business stakeholders to drive business value.
• End User Engagement Establish and maintain intake mechanism for direct user feedback including suggestions and issue escalations for the global engineering population (1000 users).
• Business Accountability establish maintain report and improve business-based KPIs with key engineering stakeholders to ensure value delivery
• Portfolio management Manage the Engineering enterprise application portfolio to ensure current and future business requirements. Ensure opportunities are prioritized based on strategic alignment total cost of ownership and risk. Actively assess the systems landscape for modernization automation and rationalization.
• Center-Led Portfolio Management Develop and manage processes to manage the lifecycle of citizen-developed applications and systems
• Operational excellence Ensure the confidentiality integrity and availability of the enterprise applications following ITIL best practices. Implement and manage the development deployment maintenance and support of enterprise systems via Agile execution with defined KPIs.
• Vendor management Establish and maintain relationships with key strategic partners. Actively engage with sourcing and vendor management teams to strengthen our position when negotiating contracts.
• Risk and compliance Ensure enterprise applications comply with all relevant laws regulations and standards.
• Budget management Develop and manage the budget for enterprise applications in coordination with the IT finance team.

Key Performance Measures

• System & Application Portfolio maintained in the Application Portfolio Management database
• System Roadmaps maintained and aligned with the Engineering Product Technology and capability roadmaps
• Timely resolution of escalated incidents
• Annual portfolio budget planning completed and aligned with the Engineering portfolio planning and the business plan
• System availability and reliability
• High stakeholder satisfaction
• Health of application portfolio
• Innovation and continuous improvement
• Adherence to security and compliance

Competencies and Behaviors

• Technical expertise: In-depth knowledge of Engineering enterprise applications such as Teamcenter SAP PLM Siemens NX etc.
• Communication and collaboration: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to collaborate with executives stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Ability to work closely with the CTO CIO and CFO.
• Project and Product management: Strong project management skills including experience with agile methodologies. Ability to lead product teams.
• Analytical skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Financial acumen: Ability to manage budgets and optimize cost.
• Team building: Ability to build and maintain highly productive geographically distributed (US/India) teams while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Continual talent and leadership development.
• Business value: Focus on the needs of the business to deliver the expected business outcomes.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology business administration or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in IT with at least five years in a leadership role managing enterprise applications.
• Experience implementing large-scale IT projects.
• Experience with PLM CAD CAE and other business-critical applications.

Preferred

• A masters degree or MBA

Scope Factors

• International scope
• Accountable for Engineering IT application budget ($12M/yr)
• Direct management of a team of 10 people
• Indirect management for 10-20 vendor resources
• Project and Product complexity high
• Highly technical

Travel Expectations

• Occasional travel to support business needs.

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age race color sex religion creed national origin disability sexual orientation gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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