Senior Manager - Program / Project Demand and Delivery
- Job ID:04395
- Date:09/04/2008
- Location:Chicago, US-IL
- State:Illinois
- Degree:Not Specified
- Major:null
- Salary/Compensation:
- 0-0
- Job Types:
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Application Specialist
Job Description
Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name products for consumers throughout the world. The Corporation has operations in 58 countries and markets branded products in nearly 200 nations. Sara Lee Corporation employs 137,000 people worldwide.
Each and every day, Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) delights millions of consumers and customers around the world. The company has one of the world's best-loved and leading portfolios with its innovative and trusted food, beverage, household and body care brands, including Ambi Pur, Ball Park, Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, Kiwi, Sanex, Sara Lee, and Senseo. Collectively, these brands generate more than $12 billion in annual net sales covering approximately 200 countries. The Sara Lee community consists of 52,000 employees worldwide.
Position Summary:
A leadership role that facilitates the entire process of program/project demand planning, prioritization, resource planning and project execution. Responsible for data gathering and analysis that supports the IT governance, program/project portfolio, and capacity management processes. Works to properly monitor and align program/project delivery through project statistics, benchmarking and budgeting.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support the IT Governance process by establishing and maintaining an effective IT project portfolio management processes, that provide data for sound prioritization of the program/project portfolio.
- Partner with the business and technology leadership in defining, prioritizing and achieving strategic objectives, defining short and long term objectives for projects/platforms under management.
- Prepare a global IT resource forecast providing visibility to conflicts and/or opportunities.
- Track that project portfolios are delivered as committed - on-time, on-target and on-budget.
- Oversee collection of program / project performance data; report status and material variances to executive management.
- Monitor portfolios for dependencies and conflicts and risk; facilitate resolution of scope, schedule and resource conflicts.
- Conduct project phase gate reviews ensuring all required deliverables are complete — drives standards, consistency, and continuous improvement across the IT functions.
- Coordinate portfolio change management processes ensuring all project scope changes are visible, analyzed, reviewed, documented and communicated.
- Disseminate best practices, re-use, and lessons learned between projects.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of IT governance, portfolio management, and PMO processes.
- Perform all activities in compliance with the internal and external requirements and standards for Quality, Regulatory, Finance and Human Resources. Ensure SOX compliance and internal business control processes are a part of the IT operation.
- Hire and retain a professional and knowledgeable staff, foster a positive team environment with a focus on quality delivery of the IT program/project portfolio.
- BA or BS degree required, with a preference for Information Systems, Computer Science or Business Operations degrees; MBA a plus.
- 7 to 10 years of IT Program Project Management experience, or relevant business or team leadership. Experience in managing or working with a PMO organization is preferred.
- Experience with projects in multiple technologies, functions and business processes; Consumer Packaged Goods experience a plus.
- Requires experience with systems development life cycle and packaged solutions implementations including requirements gathering, change management, quality assurance, and deployment processes.
- Proven experience managing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups.
- Knowledge of outsourcing methodologies and operating models.
- Program and project management experience within large ERP or CRM implementations, including lead roles as either program manager or lead project manager.
- Significant business interaction experience, including establishing and managing service level agreements.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong organization and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work in a highly dynamic team and fast-paced environment with continuous challenges.
- PM certification is preferred.
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