Senior Manager, Operational Excellence, Communications, HR, and Operations

Company Description

McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and demonstrates our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand. We are recognized on lists like Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development)

Our growth pillars emphasize the critical role technology plays as the best-in-class, global omni-channel restaurant brand. Technology enables the organization through digital technologies, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day!

Global Technology forging the way

Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of innovation specialists who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of groundbreaking opportunities for the business. We take on technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge! This provides access to compelling career paths for technologists. It’s bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McD restaurant.

Job Description

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Commercial Products & Platforms (CPP) Team, focused on Communications, Human Resources, and Operations, where our vision is to develop technology that delight our customers and enable our crews to operate our restaurants reliably and effectively. This Senior Manager level role will be part of CPP and Global Technology.

The Senior Manager, Operational Excellence (OpEx) CPP, Communications, HR, and Operations will report to the Senior Director of OpEx for CPP and will handle leadership communications, human resource management activities, and operational activities across Restaurant Technology, Customer Technology, Delivery Office, Resource Optimization, Data & Architecture, and the ArchOS initiative. The Senior Manager will have three direct reports for the various products and platforms under CPP.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading all aspects of operational performance across CPP, including:
• Rolling up team goal setting and influencing metrics.
• Rolling up various CPP team reviews to present at leadership-level operational reviews.
• Rolling up performance metrics and data reporting across CPP
• Leading and supporting the CPP OpEx Managers, to enable effective change management strategies.
• Inspire change internally with team and with external business partners
• Ensure the overall CPP change approach is aligned with the communications strategy.
• Influence and function as a change leader
• Lead all aspects of the approaches defined to partner with vendor management office (VMO)
• Partner with peer leaders / senior managers in VMO to align on expectations.
• Ensure reporting team members have support needed for contract renewals.
• Review and curate established measures to handle vendor performance.
• Provide oversight and input to documentation governance.
• Align each team’s strategy for cohesion and consistency for use of documentation libraries and repositories.
• Evaluate practices for restaurant visits and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate expectations on documentation and information.
• Review and advise business routines and operationalization of processes.
• Evaluate established routines towards optimizing team and organizational health.
• Align team practices to overall ways of working.
• Offer guidance on how best to work with center teams, markets, segments, collaborators, and business partners.
• Be responsible for human resource management practices across the CPP team.
• Represent CPP collective interest in human resource management activities.
• Approve and govern the teams’ requests through headcount governance.
• Provide oversight, resources, and support to managers completing employee actions and work in collaborative partnership with human resources.
• Lead talent development and culture development activities across the CPP team.
• Facilitate goal setting activities for CPP to align with overall CPP and Global Technology strategy.
• Drive performance management processes, to meet deadlines, and deliver on goals.
• Support opportunities for team recognition, culture development, and events consistently across CPP.
• Create opportunities for team talent development and to align with Global People activities.
• Align with and cultivate opportunities for education and tra