Principal Program Manager - Supply Chain (REMOTE)

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OVERVIEW:

The Principal Portfolio Program Manager role is focused on leading large multi-year strategic programs focused on evolving and scaling Athlete Experience.  The role will oversee all aspects of program management including strategy formation, process definition, organization design, and technology delivery. Responsibilities include oversight and guidance of a team comprised of business, technology and 3rd party vendor stakeholders. The Principal PPM is responsible for the overall effectiveness of the team, ensuring the right talent is applied in the right way. The Principal PPM drives integration across teams and initiatives and manages a comprehensive network of strategic alliances to ensure stakeholder needs are met. The Principal PPM drives process adherence to facilitate efficient outcomes, ensuring that teams are performing to their potential. In this role, you will support the Omnichannel portfolio.

The Principal Supply Chain PPM leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of all Supply Chain portfolios across multiple domain areas and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination. Partners with Supply Chain product managers and others on intake and demand planning. Engages all disciplines across the technology team to facilitate capacity planning and alignment of capacity to demand through planning, prioritization, sequencing of work, and dependency mapping. Utilizes defined practices, tools, and deliverables to track and report on the overall health and progress of delivery against portfolio plans and goals. May alternatively be accountable for leading program management across multiple highly complex Supply Chain and interdependent programs including planning efforts, managing complex integrations, implementation, reporting, and performance to ensure the successful delivery of defined value and outcomes. In all cases has ownership for maturing and tailoring multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools to work across multiple portfolios and/or domain areas. Acts as a mentor and coach to junior team members.

Portfolio Management:

Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of Supply Chain portfolio outcomes within a broad area of responsibility, using appropriate portfolio management methodologies to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved. 

Leadership and Direction:

Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the Supply Chain function's

strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the

relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision and values; motivate

people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local

business goals.

Stakeholder Management:

Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across

multiple programs and/or portfolios and domains to identify relevant

stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure

that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice across assigned

programs and/or portfolio(s) and domains.

Enterprise Business Analysis:

Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business

problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within

span of control at this level.

Culture of Innovation:

Lead the planning and dissemination of innovative capabilities across the

businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to

innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.

Portfolio Risk and Issue Management:

Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed

appropriately at portfolio and domain levels. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the portfolio, develop and agree recovery plans

Ongoing Learning and Development:

Act as subject matter expert in