Enterprise Applications Transformation Program Manager

Job Description

Job DescriptionEnterprise Applications Transformation Program Manager

Location: Ashland, MA — Hybrid (on-site three days per week)

About KiddeFenwal

KiddeFenwal is a global force in industrial and commercial fire suppression and safety controls. Through our trusted brands—Kidde Fire Systems, Kidde Fire Protection, and Fenwal Controls—we safeguard people, assets, and critical operations around the world. Headquartered in Ashland, Massachusetts, with teams in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, we champion innovation, operational rigor, and customer-first solutions.

The Opportunity

Step into a highly visible program leadership role guiding enterprise applications and business modernization across a global manufacturing organization. You will orchestrate complex initiatives spanning ERP, enterprise applications, SaaS, data and reporting, AI-enabled capabilities, process automation, and systems integration—translating strategy into delivery.

A Day in the Role

On a typical week, you’ll partner with business leaders to refine outcomes, transform ideas into actionable roadmaps, and steer cross-functional teams and vendors through delivery. You’ll facilitate discovery workshops, map future-state processes, craft detailed plans, manage budgets and risks, and communicate executive-ready status and recommendations. You’ll coordinate testing and training, navigate cutover and go-live, and champion user adoption so change sticks.

What You’ll Lead

• End-to-end delivery of cross-functional technology and business transformation programs.
• Comprehensive plans—schedules, budgets, milestones, dependencies—and rigorous scope and change control.
• Program governance with clear communication cadences and executive reporting.
• Risk, issue, and assumption management with proactive mitigation strategies.
• Business engagement—facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, and shaping solutions that meet defined success metrics.

How You’ll Partner

• Collaborate with stakeholders to uncover challenges and opportunities for technology-enabled improvement.
• Document requirements as functional specs and user stories; perform process mapping, gap analysis, and future-state design.
• Guide solution evaluation, testing, validation, and user acceptance.

Initiatives You’ll Drive

• ERP implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
• Enterprise application deployments and enhancements.
• SaaS and cloud solutions.
• Process automation and AI-enabled business solutions.
• Data, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence programs.
• Systems integration and workflow optimization.
• Broader digital transformation to fuel growth and efficiency.

Vendor & Change Leadership

• Oversee third-party vendors, consultants, implementation partners, and service providers; monitor delivery against contracts.
• Coordinate testing, training, cutover planning, deployment, and go-live activities.
• Lead organizational change management and drive user adoption.
• Serve as the connector between business stakeholders and technical teams across the lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of project management delivering business and technology initiatives.
• Track record leading ERP, enterprise application, CRM, SaaS, or digital transformation projects.
• Proven delivery from planning through deployment and adoption.
• Expertise in managing budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and dependencies.
• Strong business analysis and requirements gathering skills.
• Vendor and implementation partner management experience.
• Exceptional stakeholder management; influence across technical and non-technical teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, problem-solving, organizational, and leadership abilities.
• Fluency with Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery models.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background supporting manufacturing, supply chain, operations, engineering, quality, finance, customer service, or commercial teams.
• Experience with JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or similar ERP platforms.
• Leadership across systems integration, cloud, data and analytics, infrastructure modernization, or digital transformation.
• Exposure to private equity–backed, mid-market, or rapidly transforming organizations.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CBAP, or equivalent certifications.

Why Join

Shape strategic initiatives for a global manufacturer while working directly with senior business and technology leaders. Your leadership will modernize our technology landscape, advance enterprise applications, and elevate operational capabilities.

KiddeFenwal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other protected status.