Sr Manager, Program Management

McDonald's Corporation•Chicago, IL

2d•$141,955 - $177,444

About The Position

The GI Mod PMO Senior Manager is responsible for driving orderly and timely workstream execution and delivery for the Global Indirect Sourcing & Procurement (IS&P) Modernization program. The GI Mod program is an effort to establish the IS&P Function within McDonald’s and implement “One McDonald’s Way” of how McDonald’s does Indirect Sourcing and Procurement across the globe. This role reports to the Global Finance (GF)/GI Mod PMO Director, ensuring predictable execution, risk-managed delivery, and cross-functional alignment for one of McDonald’s most critical and multi-functional global transformation programs.

Requirements

8+ years of prior program and project management experience leading large scale, global integrated transformation programs, preferably in Procurement systems like SAP Ariba.
Proven leadership in planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring successful outcomes and value realization
Strong stakeholder management and communication planning capabilities across senior and cross-functional audiences
Expertise in change control, performance measurement, risk and issue management, and adherence to PMO standards, processes, and tools
Ability to inspire and align others around a compelling future vision to drive engagement and results

Responsibilities

Work with GF/GI Mod PMO Lead and Transformation Leadership to establish program and project strategy, approach, workstreams and overall structure and timeline for the initiative.
Ensure the program is operating to plan, proactively identifying risk and issues and engaging the right parties to mitigate risk and resolve issues
Establish and facilitate program governance and project status forums, ensuring all parties are apprised of actions and decisions
Accountable for leading a multi-year initiative leveraging a team of experienced program managers, market resources, and functional subject matter experts assigned to the initiative.
Coordinate and engage with key cross-workstream internal partners (e.g., functional solutions, enabling services) to streamline interactions while maintaining line of sight to dependencies required for success
Help with implementation and reinforcement of project management methodology
Advise leadership and/or business executives at the highest levels about the initiative, leveraging the standard status and communication reporting processes
Provide project workplan management support, keeping track of plans, budget, quality standards, deliverables, and dependencies
Track and monitor project metrics, reporting and project finance management
Facilitate internal and external meetings
Monitor relationships and dependencies between project areas and active improvement submission
Organize project resource management, ensuring the proper onboarding / offboarding of program team members, and maintaining adherence to relevant security, data, and access policies in alignment with McDonald’s Data and Security Governance Standards
Build program updates for McDonald’s Leadership that shows the progress of the project and potential barriers