Senior Program Manager, Productivity - Burlington, United States - Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Description

*Position Requires Three Days In Office Per Week*

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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, mathematics, engineering, business, or related field required; Master's degree in business, operations research, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in a related role.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Power Point & Excel including other Microsoft suite products.
• Flexible and able to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to push forward on projects, even when all of the requirements have not been defined.
• Detailed and deadline-orientated to meet regular and periodic needs of the business for accurate and timely information.
• Strong capability to thoroughly review and sense-check results so that analysis is right the first time.
• Must be able to create a professional presentation of results, including determining results-first or results-last approaches, ability to construct results that "tell a story", and ability to lead an audience to the proper conclusions or decisions relevant to the situation.
• Expert analytical capabilities including advanced knowledge of Excel and demonstrated competence with data
• Ability to proactively engage with the tower leaders and influence key decisions with facts.

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partners brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that's proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an employer of choice, providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~28,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.