Delivery Lead - IT Planning & Execution

The Delivery Lead - IT Planning & Execution is a key operational and strategic role responsible for tracking and driving a set of initiatives. This individual serves as the central point of coordination across delivery teams, regional leaders, and financial planning functions.

They are accountable for maintaining visibility across a number of initiatives, ensuring accurate financial forecasting, driving the completion of the initiatives, and transparent status reporting. The role operates in a cross-functional, multi-national environment, bridging IT and business domains to ensure work is properly scoped, resourced, and executed in alignment with strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities: 

Delivery Management 

• For each initiative, fully understand the project outcomes, timelines, dependencies and actively drive required teams to deliver those outcomes.  Identify and communicate key milestones and value outcomes. 

• Facilitate across various teams to prioritize initiative work items 

• Drive issue resolution by the identification of the appropriate team members required to resolve and facilitate to resolution.   

• Establish and enforce consistent reporting cadences and templates across delivery teams to enable reliable portfolio-level aggregation. 

• Serve as a trusted partner to both IT and business stakeholders, translating between technical delivery language and business outcomes. 

• Navigate effectively across geographies and time zones, fostering inclusive and efficient collaboration in a multi-national operating environment. 

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with regional delivery leads, finance business partners, HR, procurement, and other enabling functions. 

Financial Forecasting & Planning 

• Partner closely with analysts to develop, maintain, and refine accurate financial forecasts across the project portfolio. 

• Track actuals against forecast and budget, proactively identifying variances and working with stakeholders to develop corrective actions. 

• Support the end-to-end financial lifecycle of projects, including initial estimates, milestone-based funding reviews, and final cost reconciliation. 

• Provide financial inputs and narrative to support investment decisions, portfolio reviews, and planning cycles. 

 

Portfolio Tracking & Reporting 

• Own the successful delivery of a set of portfolio initiatives, ensuring accurate and up-to-date status across scope, schedule, budget, and risk dimensions. 

• Identify, document, and communicate major milestones, dependencies, delivery risks in a timely and structured manner. 

 

Intake & Demand Management (when needed) 

• Manage and facilitate the intake process for new work requests across assigned teams, ensuring consistent evaluation, prioritization, and onboarding of demand.