Governance and Process Manager

About the role

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA! More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development, and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

The Governance & Process Manager is responsible for enabling, maintaining, and continuously improving the governance framework, operating cadence, and transformation processes required to support disciplined execution of enterprise transformation initiatives. This role serves as a central partner and orchestration point between the Full Potential Office (FPO), workstream leaders, finance teams, initiative owners, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent execution, clear accountability, effective communication, and adherence to transformation standards.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate and continuously improve the transformation governance model, including meeting structures, decision-making forums, escalation paths, stage gates, and operating rhythms in alignment with FPO leadership.
• Structure, track, and facilitate escalation and resolution of governance-related issues, process gaps, and open actions across workstreams and cross-functional teams.
• Document, clarify, and operationalize roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability mechanisms throughout the transformation.
• Monitor compliance with transformation governance standards, identify gaps and drive corrective actions when processes are not followed.
• Partner with workstream leaders to ensure issues, decisions, risks, and dependencies are escalated and resolved appropriately.
• Drive consistency of governance practices across current and future workstreams.
• Serve as the primary owner of transformation processes, playbooks, templates, standards, and ways of working.
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and process gaps across workstreams and lead coordinate process improvement initiatives.
• Develop clear, concise, and executive-level communications regarding governance updates, new processes, meeting cadences, policy changes, and transformation expectations.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, dashboards, scorecards, and governance updates for senior leadership, Steering Committees, and transformation reviews.
• Work closely with Finance partners to ensure alignment between initiative execution, milestone achievement, and financial value realization.
• Lead onboarding and training for new transformation team members, workstream leaders, initiative owners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ensure all teams use approved systems, templates, and reporting processes consistently.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Organizational Leadership, or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred. 5-7 years of experience in Transformation, PMO, Enterprise Program Management, Consulting, Strategy Execution, Process Excellence, or Operational Excellence.

Experience supporting large-scale enterprise transformations, designing and implementing governance frameworks and operating models, facilitating executive governance meetings and cross-functional decision-making forums, and developing executive-level presentations and communications.

Skills

• Governance Design & Administration
• Process Design & Optimization
• Change Management
• Executive Communication
• Financial Acumen
• Value Tracking & Reporting

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Paid Time Off
• 401k & Company Match
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Salary Range: $94,300 - $122,600