Director, Oracle ERP Program Manager

  • Full-time
  • Employment Status: Regular

Company Description

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 180 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,450 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

Job Description

Please note this is a temporary 2 year contract position. 

Skechers is calling a Director, Oracle ERP Program Manager to our location in Manhattan Beach, CA. to be responsible for managing a number of projects within the technical pillar (boundary applications enhancements/modifications, integrations, instance strategy, HRIS collaboration) for a multi-year global Oracle Cloud ERP implementation program. This Director of Program Management is the primary point of contact between Information Technology executive leadership and the resource managers of all IT teams, including impacted joint venture IT teams, and is responsible for engaging executive leadership and communicating progress of the program. The Program Manager is accountable for working with and facilitating processes to accomplish complex program objectives, managing change, and resolving issues that span project teams and departments by planning, organizing, directing and supervising program activities in a cost-effective and productive manner to achieve customer satisfaction. This position relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variables.

In this position you will have the following responsibilities:

  • Develop projects within a program in alignment with the organization's strategic plans and objectives.
  • Builds support to influence decisions in order to ensure work toward common objectives.
  • Manage client expectations for timelines and deliverables throughout the project/program lifecycle.
  • Understand boundary systems integration options, pros/cons, risks and present back to steering committee.
  • Develop and gain sponsor approval for project delivery dates.
  • Develops root cause analyses and process improvement plans.
  • Presenting at executive steering committees and managing client relationships
  • Overseeing the development and implementation of the program management plan, program governance and budgets for each project within the program.
  • Maintains all program artifacts.
  • Identifies, delivers and documents organizational, application and human workflows that contribute to policy and procedure updates throughout each project (when applicable).

Qualifications

Required qualifications for this position include:

  • Expertise and experience with Project Management methodology based upon project management principles, including experience implementing and facilitating complex decision-making structures among multiple executive stakeholders with varied interests and priorities.
  • Skilled in strategic & tactical planning and program management- with demonstrated ability to quickly understand and align with an organization, its structure, and priorities. Ability to take initiative, prioritize work, manage time and respond effectively to a rapidly changing environment.
  • Demonstrated superior judgment, problem solving, and cognitive skills with the ability to understand business or clinical strategies and plans, and their relationship to organizational strategies. Ability to analyze and report on foreseeable future implications of current decisions.
  • Advanced leadership skills, with the ability to successfully serve as a coach and mentor to others with demonstrated ability to inform and influence senior leadership, management and individuals in various parts of the organization to work toward successful outcomes. Exercising sound political and environmental judgment as appropriate to support successful project implementation with excellent skills related to group motivation, discipline, and diplomacy.
  • Superb written and oral communication that is excellent in the areas of timeliness, accuracy, professionalism (both interpersonally and technical) with demonstrated experience as a speaker in a professional presentation environment, such as conferences and association meetings.
  • Demonstrated success managing project managers, project portfolios and/or multiple projects and teams simultaneously, assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning, managing the process of design, development, integration and/or implementation of software products, equipment, and facilities.
  • Solid understanding on integration options and approaches such as APIs, flat files, message queues, etc.
  • Demonstrated success pushing back and challenging technical team estimates and approaches.
  • Experience with vendor/contract management and negotiations.
  • Development and execution experience with business development, marketing, communications, financial planning, and benchmarks/metrics in support of improved quality and process design.
  • 10 years Information Services/Information Technology and/or Retail Industry experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree Or equivalent education/experience.

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

  • Demonstrated and successful end-to-end Oracle ERP implementation program management experience.
  • Management or IT strategy & implementation consulting experience.
  • Strong understanding of ERP technology.
  • Strong communication with experience in executive leadership facilitation.
  • Master's degree.
  • 10 years in the project / program management field
  • Certifications in PMP (Project Management Professional), PgMP (Program Management Professional), Six Sigma, LEAN and CQIA (Quality Improvement Associate).

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary range for this position is $120,000 - $180,000/year. 

Benefits:

  • Paid Parental Leave: including time for fathers and adopting parents.
  • Short term & long term disability and life insurance at no cost to the employee.
  • Extensive medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple carries, including EPO,HPN and PPO plans.
  • Competitive 401k plan and employer matching.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Savings Account (FSA) offerings.
  • Paid vacation, sick, personal and holiday time.
  • Pet Insurance available.
  • Onsite wellness programs at company headquarters including fitness classes, acupuncture, and chiropractor.
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Employee product discount of 50%; employee sample sales and family and friends discount throughout the year. 
  • Skechers Company Culture and growth strategy is deeply infused with internal career growth and opportunities for learning.
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