Manager, Project Management

Department Overview

The Manager, Planning & PMO Governance is responsible for enabling enterprise planning rigor and effective PMO governance across Global Technology. This role reports directly to the Director, Planning & PMO CoE to ensure that planning cadences, governance forums, and leadership communications are structured, efficient, and decision oriented. The position partners closely with the Sr. Director leading Global Technology Planning & PMO, along with senior leaders, platform owners, and subject matter experts to drive transparency, alignment, and disciplined execution across complex, cross platform initiatives.

Duties

Primary Duties:

• Planning & Governance Management

• Plan and orchestrate platform governance forums, including Consumer, Restaurant, and Cross‑Platform governance meetings, ensuring agendas are aligned to leadership priorities and ready for decision‑making.
• Partner with senior leaders and subject matter experts to develop, sequence, and socialize governance content, maintaining flexibility to incorporate emerging or high‑priority topics.
• Assess and drive continuous improvement across Platform governance bodies to improve efficiency, clarity, and outcomes.
• Leads the calendar cadence and rhythms to support Sr. Leadership with platform governance forums.

• Planning & PMO Operating Cadence & Execution
  • Operationalize and streamline Planning & PMO (P&P) operating rhythms, including P&P All Hands, P&P Leadership Team meetings, and P&P community forums.
  • Lead preparation, facilitation, and follow‑up for P&P All Hands, ensuring effective two‑way communication between leadership and the P&P community.
  • Maintain and evolve planning and governance calendars to support enterprise planning, leadership alignment, and execution cadence.

• Strategic Planning & Program Support

• Support annual and multi‑year planning activities by coordinating timelines, inputs, and artifacts that enable leadership alignment and execution readiness for governance decision-making.
• Provide PMO and planning support to enterprise‑scale initiatives, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and governance expectations are visible and understood.
• Represent the PMO in leadership forums, reinforcing PMO standards, governance expectations, and execution discipline.

• Communication, Engagement & Change Enablement
  • Develop and deliver clear, executive‑ready communications related to planning outcomes, governance evolution, and PMO operating changes.
  • Act as an advocate for P&P employee engagement, ensuring feedback is surfaced, communicated, and translated into actionable improvements.
  • Enable transparency and collaboration by fostering effective communication between P&P leadership, delivery teams, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in program management, planning, OpEx or PMO operations.
• Experience supporting enterprise or platform‑level governance and planning forums.

• Ability to work under tight deadlines managing multiple key business priorities.
• Ability to solve complex problems and deal with a variety of work situations.
• High adaptability in fast-moving, priority-driven environments.
• Executive-level communication skills and presence – ability to level-up the details, identify what’s important, and advise our leadership.
• Proven track record of managing competing priorities and addressing roadblocks –desire to work independently amid ambiguity in a fast-moving environment. Comfortable in the grey.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise planning and governance enablement.
• PMO operating model and cadence management.
• Executive facilitation and agenda orchestration.

• Demonstrates strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency across deliverables and communications.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders at multiple levels to drive alignment, decisions, and outcomes.

• Ability to operate effectively in fast‑paced, priority‑driven environments.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $115,872.00 - $144,840.00 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.