Senior Manager, SAP Applications & Engineering (Remote)

The Senior Manager, SAP Applications Engineering leads the engineering and functional team behind the SAP portfolio across Retail and Supply Chain — merchandising, allocation and assortment, article and inventory management, store replenishment, warehouse management, order management, procurement, EDI and the integrations that connect them. The role owns what is built and how it is built: technical approach, engineering standards, the development of the team, and the technical performance of the partners who build alongside it. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. It requires enough depth in integration design, release and environment management, data conversion and defect resolution to challenge estimates, interrogate designs, and judge whether work presented as complete actually is — and enough leadership to build that capability into the team rather than supplying it personally. A project manager aligned to this portfolio by the IT PMO carries the plan, the cadence, delivery timing and communication with the business about dates, so this role can stay close to the technical work and to the team. SAP is becoming the operating backbone for Retail, Supply Chain and Finance at Cole Haan. This role is created to establish engineering leadership inside the Go-to-Market Platforms organization, where until now there has been none below the Senior Director. The Senior Director holds business strategy, technology roadmap, SAP architecture, data and integration direction and AI enablement. This role holds the team, the technical execution and the partner capability beneath that direction. Alongside it, the IT PMO holds capacity planning, sequencing across the portfolio, delivery timing and communication with the business about dates, through a project manager aligned to this portfolio. The two are designed to work as a pair, and the boundary between them is written down below rather than left to be established informally. The role is being built with the structure around it, not expected to create that structure alone. CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES: Engineering Leadership Own the technical approach: how work is built, to what standard, by whom, and whether it is fit to release Coordinate development resource across SAP, integration and application teams — including capacity that sits outside this organization — to deliver committed work across Retail and Supply Chain Stage the build, resolve technical trade-offs, and drive blockers to resolution with the appropriate technical owners Apply direct technical depth to challenge estimates, integration approaches, data mappings, environment plans and implementation sequencing before work is committed Ensure designs, data flows, integrations, controls and operational impacts receive appropriate review, and that technical decisions are documented and reflected in the plan Provide level of effort and the technical resources required, as the input to portfolio planning. Own the accuracy of technical status: the project manager produces and distributes reporting, and this role answers for what it says Scale development capacity to the work. Where ABAP, BTP or integration build exceeds internal capacity, define the requirement, contract and manage that capacity to delivery — working to the design direction set by the SAP technical architect, and managing the contracted work rather than absorbing it SAP Retail and Supply Chain Platforms Lead engineering and stabilization across S/4HANA and connected platforms — merchandising, allocation and assortment, article and inventory management, store replenishment, warehouse management, logistics, procurement, order fulfillment, EDI and integrations Manage dependencies across SAP, third-party platforms, enterprise data, infrastructure, security and business processes Drive post-launch defects, enhancements and optimization to resolution, and support the transition from implementation into an ongoing product and enhancem…

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