Senior Program Manager, Productivity - Coffee BU

The KDP Productivity Team is responsible for delivering productivity savings year over year across all of Supply Chain (Procurement, Manufacturing, and Logistics). This position will lead the Coffee BU productivity program responsible for large, complex projects, tracking performance, evaluating risks and opportunities, facilitating tower meetings, providing a cadence for updates, and driving project completion.This role serves as a liaison between key stakeholders across the towers and supply chain leadership. In this role you will be responsible for:

• Alignment to Value: Partner with stakeholders to deliver productivity objectives by meeting their needs and desired outcomes. Set ambitious tower targets and obtain leadership buy-in.
• Plan and Prioritize: Build, validate, and socialize areas to optimize over a 3-year horizon and develop a pipeline of initiatives that are impactful and implementable. Prioritize initiatives and investments with shared approval.
• Execute and Measure: Document the plan, communicate changes, and evaluate performance against forecasts. Drive transparency and validate iteratively to check for course correction and measure impact.
• Iterate and Innovate: Actively evaluate progress, reassess stakeholder’s needs, and adapt to changing requirements in an agile approach. Evaluate and manage risks and opportunities providing a cadence for updates and driving project completion.

What you will do:

• Transform into a Productivity Center of Excellence responsible for portfolio analysis across projects, reporting, risk assessment, and tower performance.

• Lead/Coach the Supply Chain teams to deliver the Productivity savings tied to AOP and meet our financial commitments.
• Support the cadence of Squad, Function and Steerco activities by establishing an efficient and effective process based on the Agile methodology.

• Partner with Commercial and R&D teams to unlock and accelerate the next chapter of Design-to-Value opportunities aligned to deliver brand equity, quality, and profitable growth.
• Work with BU and Functional teams to drive accountability through transparent performance management and communication.
• Collaborate with the financial teams to ensure productivity program adherence to policies and financial integrity with clear traceability to financial results. Work with project leaders to ensure we have updated forecasts, appropriate stage gates, alignment on calculation methodologies, and reporting period actuals.
• Lead monthly report-outs to key stakeholders throughout the organization including the SCLT, ELT, FLT, etc. Support Ad-Hoc Requests for project updates, analysis, and executive level presentations.
• Standardize capabilities to develop, prioritize, and capture value realization.
  • Establish and manage a Stage Gate process to organize and structure decision making protocols to enable key stakeholders to balance resources and accelerate execution.
  • Build a cadence, using agile methodology, for the tower leaders to review, report, and update project performance.
  • Incorporate best practices (LSS) in the continuous improvement of the Productivity process.
  • Develop Project Management capabilities within the team to fill-in resource gaps as needed.
  • Evaluate and build business case of technology platforms to enable and enhance spend analytics, insights, reporting, and process improvement.

Ensure high performance results of your team by:

• Fostering a culture of trust and wellbeing that prioritizes the team and values employee contributions
• Driving a shared vision with clear goals and accountability, supported by regular conversations to maximize talent
• Embracing diverse perspectives to foster innovation, learning from both successes and failures
• Establishing a safe environment where team members are motivated, heard, and aligned with clear expectations