Associate Manager Portfolio Operations
About The Position
Responsible for managing Commercial Governance for product development projects and advancing Portfolio Insights and Analytics to support prioritization and decision making in both CMG and Salty Snacks businesses. Role Responsibilities: Portfolio Governance & Process Leads Commercial Governance Meetings and Process including confirming agendas, attendees, material readiness, and running meetings (including prioritizing topics, time management and follow-ups) Potential Governance Meetings to lead: Commercial Project Review (CPR) meetings for CMG business, Simple Stage Gate (SSG) meetings for Salty Snacks business, and Pre-Commercialization Project Governance meetings to support R&D Evaluates projects, working with Business Leaders and Acting Project Leaders, to ensure project readiness for Gate reviews Acts as Subject Matter Expert and provides stage-gate process guidance within Commercial Governance Advises on Process needs and helps to design and implement process improvements Supports continuous improvement of Accolade project management tool Portfolio Analytics Creates and maintains Decision-Making Analysis and process metrics for Governance meetings Owns data gathering process; collaborate with other data owners to connect into enterprise data sources Develop dashboards and reporting for CMG and Salty Snacks project portfolio Generate insights on portfolio performance, trends, risks, areas for improvement, etc. Conduct Ad hoc analysis; develop hypothesis, aggregate findings, and determine recommendations Leads data accuracy for project portfolio data in Accolade Maintains single source of truth information for all projects
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Technical area required
- 2-3+ years work experience in an analytical and/or strategic role involving business processes
- Strong data & analytics skills. Able to collect, transform, and display data using various tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.)
- Able to communicate with PowerPoint
- Attention to detail but capable of broad strategic overview
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Strong ability to influence and persuade decision making at higher levels
- Capable of gaining trust and buy in from peers and leaders. Mediator and conflict resolver.
- Knowledge of stage-gate process
- Multifunctional business acumen – marketing, R&D, finance, supply chain.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working across several business functions and with upper management preferred.
Responsibilities
- Leads Commercial Governance Meetings and Process including confirming agendas, attendees, material readiness, and running meetings (including prioritizing topics, time management and follow-ups)
- Evaluates projects, working with Business Leaders and Acting Project Leaders, to ensure project readiness for Gate reviews
- Acts as Subject Matter Expert and provides stage-gate process guidance within Commercial Governance
- Advises on Process needs and helps to design and implement process improvements
- Supports continuous improvement of Accolade project management tool
- Creates and maintains Decision-Making Analysis and process metrics for Governance meetings
- Owns data gathering process; collaborate with other data owners to connect into enterprise data sources
- Develop dashboards and reporting for CMG and Salty Snacks project portfolio
- Generate insights on portfolio performance, trends, risks, areas for improvement, etc.
- Conduct Ad hoc analysis; develop hypothesis, aggregate findings, and determine recommendations
- Leads data accuracy for project portfolio data in Accolade
- Maintains single source of truth information for all projects
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
