Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose: 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.
Duties and 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
• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.

Qualifications:

• 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
• Knowledge and experience of financial systems, SAP a plus
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills
• Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years' progressive program management experience

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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent. Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.

We offer an experience where our associates are valued; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business and our employees are representative of the communities that we serve. We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.

We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.