Technical Manager, Cloud EPM (Planning & Budgeting)

American Woodmark is one of the nation's largest cabinet manufacturers. By partnering with major home centers, builders, and dealers, we spark the imagination of homeowners and designer and bring their vision to life. Across our service and distribution centers, our corporate office and manufacturing facilities, you'll always find the same commitment to customer satisfaction, integrity, teamwork, and excellence. We are on a journey to encourage an inclusive Woodmark and are taking meaningful actions to promote diverse representation across every part of the business. Together, every team member contributes to making American Woodmark a place where people can express who they are through what they do. The Technical Manager - Oracle Cloud EPM (Planning & Budgeting) is a key member of the Information Technology team whose primary mission is to partner with key business and IT leaders for the delivery of business system design and development used to enable and support critical business functions and processes across the enterprise. This position requires expertise in areas of business operations, business processes, application technologies, critical business data, and key operational reporting and analytics across the key business functions of Procurement (Procurement, Sourcing and Supplier Management). Responsibilities include serving as a functional analyst/systems expert for Oracle Cloud EPM, including enterprise application architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, solution development, service support, application security and IT compliance. Support production systems including analyzing and resolving production problems and end user service requests as appropriate. Provide a high-level of customer service across the organization with a primary focus on systems availability, performance, reliability, security, and established service level metrics. IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to excel at the essential functions assigned. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability required. Experience Requires 5 years in Information Technology, including minimum 3 years in developing solutions in complex technology environments. Oracle Cloud EPM Planning and Budgeting experience is required. 4 years in manufacturing, consumer products, or distribution industries 3 years in systems development and project management Being an assigned resource in the implementation life cycle of Oracle ERP Cloud projects Skills Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to develop and communicate a future state vision that aligns with the IT and business strategy. Possesses strong leadership, communication, planning, negotiating and management skills. Effective influencing and negotiation skills in an environment where resources required for success may not be in direct control of this role Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills Strong business acumen, including industry, domain-specific knowledge of the EPM and its business units Ability to build consensus, making decisions based on many variables, and gain support for major initiatives. Strong sense of self, ethics and effort, as well as the willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals. Extensive hands-on experience in application programming and complex system integration development. Extensive hands-on experience in system integration of complex application systems. (e.g., custom solutions, package solutions, Cloud, SaaS, and PaaS) Education Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree from an accredited college or university or Associate Degree or technical diploma in Information Systems or another related field. Or equivalent work experience and/or related technical certifications as a substitute for bachelor’s degree. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Partner with the program management office to effectively deliver best in class technology capabilities. Develop, maintain, and execute methodologies and processes that ensure the most effective delivery of new solutions that meet time, cost and quality expectations. This includes development methods, estimating techniques, resource utilization processes, project controls and vendor selection, and project management approaches. Administer, Configure, Manage and Support the Oracle Applications Cloud ERP. Provide required month end and year end support to business users Continuously improve and evolve solution development processes to make the best use of resources. Support financial budgets and maintain effective financial controls. Assist in all budgetary processes, including expense budgets, project estimates, capital plans and business case development. Execution of the standardized 7 phase project life-cycle methodology: Initiation, Project Preparation & Planning, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Support, Project Closure. Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables. Manage and communicate a clear vision of each project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members. Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures. Ensure proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives. Balance the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value. Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline. Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance. Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action. Escalate issues early about the project to stakeholders, steering committees and executive leaders. Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained. Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community. Participate in the development of project management best practices. SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS: Typically, no supervisor responsibilities SCOPE & EXPECATIONS: Reports to: VP, Enterprise Application Platform and Services Recruitment process may consist of any combination of phone, video and in person interviews. Offers may be contingent upon successful completion of Background Check, Drug Screen, Physical Examination and/or potential Motor Vehicle Check. BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDES: Competitive Compensation Health Care Benefits Paid Holidays Paid Vacation Days Paid Sick Days 401(k) Match Tuition Assistance Relocation Assistance when available AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER The American Woodmark Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, military and veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other legally-protected characteristic; and it will comply with all applicable state discrimination laws. No person will be denied employment solely because of a disability, provided that the person can perform the essential functions of the position for which the person has applied, either with or without reasonable accommodations.