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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # VP, Enterprise Applications Leader - **Company:** BLUE YONDER, INC - **Location:** Coppell, TX, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $212,361.0 - $275,638.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Software, Business Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology Operations, Machine Learning, Salesforce.Com, Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology, Workday, Servicenow - **Published:** October 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88484678/1 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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., * 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.