Program Manager – Value Leadership

About the role

The Program Manager – Value Leadership serves as the operating hub for the Value Leadership portfolio, ensuring project data, governance routines, savings visibility, risks, escalations, and cross-functional actions are captured accurately and advanced with clear ownership. This role brings structure to ambiguity and enables leaders and project owners to make timely, informed decisions. You will work closely with VL Leadership Director, Portfolio Directors, Project Leads, Finance, R&D, Commercial, Supply, Procurement, Manufacturing, Packaging, Logistics, and other senior stakeholders to maintain a reliable single source of truth for project status, savings, timing, approvals, risks, and decisions. The role supports the recurring VL operating rhythm, including project reviews, prioritization discussions, action tracking, escalation follow-up, reporting, and continuous improvement of portfolio tools and knowledge repositories.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio analysis and prioritization: Lead and support scenario modeling, prioritization views, and portfolio analysis to evaluate Value Leadership pipeline options, including impact, feasibility, savings potential, timing, risk, and resource trade-offs.
• Decision support and storytelling: Translate portfolio analytics, project updates, and reporting outputs into clear recommendations and senior leader communications on portfolio health, value delivery, escalation needs, and open decisions.
• Governance and operating rhythm: Support recurring Value Leadership project reviews, action tracking, decision documentation, escalation follow-up, and consistent use of the portfolio single source of truth.
• Process adoption: Act as a change agent for portfolio processes, including idea management, DVF/project intake, recurring review routines, standard reporting practices, and non-consumer-facing Stage Gate deployment.
• Capability building and knowledge management: Strengthen portfolio management capability through playbooks, onboarding materials, process guidance, recurring routines, documentation standards, and shared knowledge repositories.
• Tool and process improvement: Identify portfolio tool, reporting, and process gaps; map continuous-improvement opportunities; and partner with technology, data, finance, and functional teams to deliver practical improvements.
• Team and stakeholder coordination: Lead or indirectly guide project managers, workstream owners, coordinating priorities, clarifying ownership, tracking actions, and reinforcing accountability.

Requirements

• Ideal candidate profile: A highly organized, analytically strong portfolio/program manager who can bring structure to ambiguity, manage recurring governance routines, synthesize complex project information into clear recommendations, drive follow-through across a matrixed organization, and coordinate (and potentially manage) a small team supporting portfolio execution.
• Business experience: 5-8 years of experience in portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, financial/savings tracking, strategic planning, change management, or similar roles in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Governance and process discipline: Familiarity with Stage Gate, project intake, scoping, and other governance processes, including process discipline, required fields, documentation standards, and consistent application across teams.
• Analytical capabilities: Experience using project data, savings assumptions, timing, risk, and resource inputs to support scenario modeling, prioritization, investment analysis, portfolio trade-off discussions, dashboards, summaries, and leadership-ready materials.
• Communication and influence: Strong stakeholder engagement, change management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across levels, simplify complex portfolio trade-offs, and reinforce follow-through through concise, data-driven storytelling.
• Working style: Comfortable working in ambiguity and shifting priorities, with strong organization, ownership, attention to detail, bias for action,