VP, Enterprise Applications Leader

Role: VP, Enterprise Applications Leader

Location: US Remote

Synonymous Business Title (s): VP, ITG, VP Enterprise Applications & Business Systems, VP, Business Applications, Head of Enterprise Applications

Overview:

The VP, Enterprise Applications Leader will be responsible for leading Enterprise Applications within ITG, including Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and a broad portfolio of smaller business applications. Reporting to the CIO, this leader will operate as a senior enterprise technology executive, accountable for stable operations, business transformation, strategic roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, financial discipline, and cost efficiency across the enterprise applications portfolio.

What You'll Be Doing/Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Applications Portfolio:

• Accountable for the full Enterprise Applications portfolio supported by ITG, including Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and other business-critical applications.
• Ensure applications are operated with strong reliability, security, compliance, performance, support discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Establish clear ownership, operating rhythms, service management practices, escalation paths, and delivery standards across the enterprise applications landscape.
• Lead global application teams with executive presence, clear accountability, and the ability to influence across ITG delivery, security, infrastructure, data, architecture, and business technology teams to deliver integrated enterprise outcomes.
• Manage vendors, implementation partners, managed service providers, and internal teams to ensure service quality, accountability, and strong execution discipline.
• Build, inspire, and develop a high-performing enterprise applications organization, setting a clear leadership standard for ownership, talent development, delivery discipline, executive communication, and a strong customer-service mindset.

Stakeholder Management & Business Transformation:

• Serve as a trusted executive partner to senior business leaders across functions, bringing a strategic enterprise perspective to business priorities, pain points, growth needs, and transformation opportunities.
• Work with business stakeholders to define the future-state application roadmap, modernization priorities, investment needs, and sequencing of major initiatives.
• Translate business strategy into scalable technology capabilities, process improvements, automation opportunities, and measurable business outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership on how platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and related applications can simplify operations and transform business processes.
• Build trusted relationships with a diverse set of senior stakeholders, influence decisions in a matrixed environment, and ensure alignment between ITG delivery plans, business expectations, enterprise priorities, and transformation outcomes.
• Lead and support the ITG budget for the Enterprise Applications portfolio, including run costs, project investments, vendor spend, licensing, and managed services.
• Drive cost efficiency across the portfolio by rationalizing applications, improving vendor performance, optimizing licenses, and simplifying delivery models.
• Establish a right-shored delivery model across India and the United States that balances cost, capability, stakeholder proximity, quality, and execution speed.
• Partner with business and ITG leaders to prioritize investments, manage tradeoffs, and ensure application spend is aligned to enterprise value and business outcomes.
• Provide transparent reporting on budget, delivery status, risks, strategic roadmap progress, operational health, and value realization to the CIO and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrate proven executive leadership experience leading enterprise applications in a complex global environment, including the ability to lead through ambiguity, influence diverse stakeholders, make disciplined tradeoff decisions, and hold teams accountable for measurable business and technology outcomes.

What We're Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including leading Enterprise Applications, Business Systems, or Digital Transformation functions.
• Proven experience leading enterprise application portfolios, including platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and other business-critical enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise application strategies, technology roadmaps, and large-scale business transformation initiatives within a $1B+ global organization.
• Strong experience partnering with senior business executives and stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities and enterprise outcomes.
• Proven experience leading enterprise application operations, including service delivery, governance, vendor management, managed services, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success building, leading, and developing high-performing global teams, including leaders, architects, engineers, analysts, and application delivery professionals.
• Experience leading global, cross-functional teams, external vendors, and complex technology initiatives in a matrixed environment.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, organizational change leadership, and influencing skills.
• Experience managing large enterprise technology budgets, including applications, vendors, licensing, managed services, and strategic investment planning.
• Proven track record driving cost optimization, application rationalization, operational excellence, and business value realization across enterprise technology portfolios.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and their application in IT operations.
• Familiarity with supply chain management or enterprise software solutions.
• Certification in ITIL, PMP, or other relevant frameworks is a plus.

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The annual salary range is $212,361.09 - $275,638.00

The salary range information provided, reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual salary will be commensurate with skills, experience, certifications or licenses and other relevant factors. In addition, this role will be eligible to participate in either the annual performance bonus or commission program, determined by the nature of the position.

At Blue Yonder, we care about the wellbeing of our employees and those most important to them. This is reflected in our robust benefits package and options that includes:

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision

• 401K with Matching

• Flexible Time Off

• Corporate Fitness Program

• A variety of voluntary benefits such as; Legal Plans, Accident and Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and much more

At Blue Yonder, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging in which everyone can share their unique voices and talents in a safe space. We continue to be guided by our core values and are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer. We understand that your career search may look different than others, and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience.

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