Management Director

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The Vice President, Applications is the enterprise leader accountable for ensuring the company’s application portfolio meets current and future business needs. This role will lead the applications management team and establish a consistent, business-centered operating model for application strategy, adoption, lifecycle management, and value realization. This leader connects business strategy, user experience, process discipline, technology roadmaps, vendors, data, integration, security, support, and measurable outcomes.

Success requires both strong relationships and clear accountability: listen carefully to qualified business users, translate feedback into priorities, and drive consistent use of company standards so the enterprise can realize the intended efficiency and value of its application investments. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

• Autonomy and Decision Making:
  Makes decisions within defined limits of authority and consults supervisor on other decisions.
• Career Path:
  Various

APPLICATIONS LEADERSHIP FAMILY – CORE

• Owns the enterprise application strategy and operating model across all strategic focus areas, aligning portfolio direction with business priorities, enterprise architecture, data strategy, cybersecurity, financial plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Leads and mentors the applications management team, establishing clear expectations for business partnership, strategic thinking, portfolio ownership, communication, execution, accountability, talent development, and succession planning.
• Guides development and maintenance of multi-year platform roadmaps that address business needs, process improvement, lifecycle health, technical debt, integrations, vendor direction, emerging technology, risk, and investment requirements.
• Evaluates portfolio health and leads decisions to invest, simplify, standardize, modernize, consolidate, replace, or retire applications, while limiting unnecessary customization and duplicate capability.
• Ensures every Tier 1 application has clear business ownership, governance, success criteria, lifecycle and support plans, adoption expectations, and measurable value objectives.
• Builds durable, bidirectional relationships with business leaders, application owners, domain experts, users, support teams, and IT partners; translates informed feedback and operational evidence into priorities, decisions, standards, and roadmap actions.
• Establishes repeatable feedback and listening mechanisms using stakeholder discussions, user communities, surveys, sentiment, support trends, telemetry, adoption data, training feedback, and leadership input.
• Identifies and resolves legitimate adoption barriers involving process, training, usability, integration, reliability, or support, then reinforce approved enterprise standards and address nonstandard solutions through documented exceptions, remediation, and escalation when needed.
• Defines and maintains a common scorecard for Tier 1 applications covering usage, feature adoption, process compliance, training effectiveness, reliability, integration quality, support trends, user sentiment, business…