Manager Business Enablement

Ahold Delhaize•Pleasant Hill, ME

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The responsibility of this role is to lead large, complex, high risk strategic programs owned or have an impact on Ahold Delhaize USA (ADUSA) Finance, ensuring delivery within the defined time/scope, within budget and ensuring alignment and delivery of the expected business or financial return. Given the size and complexity of these programs, this role often requires overseeing a team of project managers who oversee various workstreams and projects within the overall program. To be a strategic partner with Senior Leadership in development of the project approach, providing transparency, guidance, feedback and driving accountability to meet project objectives. Beyond program management, this role also plays as a strategic partner with Senior Leadership in development of the project management practice/approach, all while providing transparency, guidance, feedback and driving accountability to meet project objectives. This role may also be expected to perform management duties related to hiring, performance management, and HR administration and helping the Director build bench strength with individual project managers who can develop into senior roles through proficiency in project management best practices and demonstrated outstanding project execution.

Requirements

10+ years across finance, business analysis, transformation & project management
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
Experience facilitating and driving meetings
Experience on Project / Solution Life Cycles
Experience with delivering finance programs and requirements
Experience working with cross functional teams across multiple geographies
Business and financial acumen
Facilitation Skills
Project management experience (PMP Certification preferred)
Knowledge and experience of financial systems, SAP a plus
Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills
10+ years’ progressive program management experience preferred
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

PMP Certification preferred
SAP a plus

Responsibilities

Provides strategic direction and oversight to a team of subject matter experts that deliver high impact programs that support the business; decisions directly impact the strategic planning and direction of programs managed; poor decisions impact overall financial and business unit results, can cause additional expenditure of resources, and can risk the successful completion of projects
Represents the Finance organization on large scale projects, owned or in support of ADUSA Finance
Leads objectives across multiple projects and functions
Responsible for the process of establishing baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources
Engages with Sr Leadership to apprise of program status and goals
Works with the business partners and leads to ensure alignment to the scope of the project / program and overarching ADUSA strategy
Acts objectively, challenging, when necessary, to provide transparency to project stakeholders
Understands impacts of change and decisions beyond the immediate results
Has experience in a number of business units or functions in order to be able to critically think through the key intersection points on a cross functional end to end process basis
Engages with Project Champions, Executive Sponsors and project teams to establish baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources.
Provides guidance, mentorship, and leadership to an assigned team of Project Managers in methodology execution, deliverable preparation, and stakeholder alignment to project objectives.
Participates in the development of the project charter, obtains stakeholder approval, and manages scope changes over the duration of the project
Facilitates development of the project Governance, working with the Finance teams to develop, obtain stakeholder approval, and ensure information remains current and teams are held accountable
Develops and maintains project plans for each project/program at the proper level of detail to adequately track and report on progress
Provide project teams with agendas and meeting minutes
Develops and maintains actions/issue/risk logs for each initiative to appropriately track project/program actions, issues, and risk to resolution/mitigation
Develops consolidated, standard, and accurate initiative status reporting, as per the defined schedule, that provides transparency to the project/program progress and any issues or risks that could have a negative impact
Manage and maintain all project documents within the project website