Senior Manager, Digital Transformation

CPG Beyond•Ashburn, VA

About The Position

CPG Beyond is seeking a Senior Manager, Digital Transformation to establish and lead the organization's enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) and accelerate measurable business transformation across functions. The role will create the governance, standards, portfolio visibility, and value-realization discipline needed to translate strategic priorities into successful outcomes. The Senior Manager will connect business strategy, process improvement, technology, data, AI, automation, and change management. They will partner with executive and functional leaders to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, resolve cross-functional barriers, and ensure initiatives deliver clear operational and financial results. The role leads the Digital Transformation Leader and builds PMO and transformation capabilities as organizational demand grows. This position is based in Ashburn, Virginia. The role includes establishing enterprise portfolio processes, developing transformation opportunities, enabling AI and digital initiatives, measuring business value, leading organizational change, and managing team members and external delivery partners. The job description lists physical demands including occasionally moving objects weighing 10–50 pounds, frequently standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, and occasionally sitting, climbing, and balancing.

Requirements

At least 7 years of progressive experience across project or portfolio management, business transformation, process improvement, technology delivery, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience establishing, redesigning, or leading a PMO or enterprise portfolio-management function.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional transformation initiatives from opportunity identification and business case through implementation, adoption, and value realization.
Strong executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, financial analysis, and decision-support skills.
Experience applying AI, automation, analytics, and digital technologies to business processes and operating models.
Working knowledge of enterprise platforms such as Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, ERP, CRM, FSM, and data/analytics platforms.
Ability to operate effectively in a growing, distributed, operationally complex business and balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution.
Experience managing external partners, consultants, statements of work, budgets, and delivery commitments.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Operations, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Suite applications such as Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Successful completion of a pre-employment background check, drug screening, and motor vehicle record review, in accordance with applicable laws.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
PMP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci, SAFe, or comparable credentials; preferred but not required when equivalent experience is demonstrated.
Knowledge of NetSuite.

Responsibilities

Design and launch the PMO charter, service model, governance structure, intake process, stage gates, prioritization methodology, and portfolio review cadence.
Establish practical standards for business cases, project charters, requirements, schedules, budgets, RAID logs, status reporting, change control, benefits tracking, and project closure.
Create portfolio dashboards showing initiative health, milestones, interdependencies, resource demand, budget status, risks, decisions, and value delivery.
Facilitate executive portfolio reviews and decision forums; provide fact-based recommendations on sequencing, funding, resourcing, and corrective action.
Develop scalable predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery methods and improve project-management maturity without unnecessary administrative burden.
Partner with business leaders to identify operational pain points, growth constraints, customer and employee experience opportunities, and technology-enabled improvements.
Lead structured discovery, opportunity assessment, process analysis, and prioritization across departments.
Translate strategic goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap with owners, dependencies, investment requirements, outcomes, and measures.
Ensure initiatives have accountable executive sponsors, business owners, delivery owners, and benefit owners.
Maintain transparency across the business-technology portfolio, including platforms, capabilities, planned changes, adoption gaps, and modernization needs.
Build and maintain an enterprise pipeline of high-value AI, automation, analytics, and digital opportunities.
Assess opportunities for strategic alignment, business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, security, adoption requirements, and total cost of ownership.
Partner with technical teams, business subject-matter experts, and external providers to move qualified concepts from discovery and prototype into production and scale.
Promote responsible AI use and alignment with company standards for security, privacy, data, architecture, lifecycle management, and human oversight.
Leverage Microsoft 365, Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, NetSuite, CRM, FSM, and related enterprise systems.
Partner with Finance and business leaders to define baselines, assumptions, benefit categories, measurement methods, and validation requirements before initiatives are approved.
Establish and track financial and operational outcomes, including savings, cost avoidance, productivity capacity, revenue enablement, gross-margin improvement, cycle-time reduction, quality improvement, and risk reduction.
Maintain a transformation value pipeline and report forecast, committed, realized, and Finance-validated benefits.
Conduct post-implementation reviews to confirm adoption, performance, lessons learned, and corrective actions.
Prevent double counting and distinguish realized P&L impact from cost avoidance, capacity creation, and revenue influenced.
Create change-management, stakeholder-engagement, communication, training, and adoption plans proportionate to initiative complexity and impact.
Assess organizational readiness and work with leaders to address process, role, policy, data, and behavioral changes required for success.
Develop practical playbooks and reusable assets that strengthen the organization's ability to adopt change.
Use adoption and outcome data to refine solutions after launch.
Lead, coach, and develop the Digital Transformation Leader and future PMO or transformation resources.
Clarify roles among business owners, project managers, product or process owners, technical teams, vendors, and executive sponsors.
Manage consultants, systems integrators, and technology partners against scope, cost, schedule, quality, security, documentation, adoption, and outcomes.
Build a high-accountability culture focused on transparency, constructive escalation, business partnership, and measurable results.