Principal Program Manager

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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 a broad area of technology, policy, regulation, or

operational management for the team. Develop and maintain external

accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external

regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional

development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

Program/Portfolio Planning:

Lead the production and approval and management of program and/or portfolio plans to ensure integration of activities across portfolios and domains, appropriately organized to deliver on defined objectives, comply with the organization's approved methodologies, frameworks, and standards and compliance with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.

Reporting and Review:

Lead the delivery of the portfolio and/or program reviews to ensure that stakeholders are able to evaluate progress and agree on change at appropriate points.

Continuous Improvement:

Assess existing operations in area of responsibility, generate and implement new innovation processes to ensure continuous improvements are delivered. Mentors junior team members.

Program Assurance:

Lead the design and delivery of program and/or portfolio level assurance

reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties,

and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified to

give senior stakeholders confidence that the program can deliver to time,

budget, and quality.

Resource Management:

Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and/or

portfolio resources and budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances

with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization across

programs and/or portfolios and domains.

Benefit Realization:

Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended

business benefits are realized across multiple programs and/or portfolios and

domains. Proactively identifies incremental benefit generation opportunity areas.

Program Governance:

Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within area of

responsibility, and ensure compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.

Budgeting:

Plan and manage budget for assigned activities within work area.

Program Risk and Issue Management:

Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with one or more complex programs or initiatives, escalating these where

appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to

overcome these.

Information and Business Advice:

Provide authoritative specialist advice to leadership on the implementation of

policy pertaining to the design and implementation of programs and/or portfolios as well as change initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred
• General Experience: Experience enables job holders to deal with most situations and to advise others (10 to 15 years)
• Managerial Experience: Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (over 10 years)
• Technical Program Management of Supply Chain: Experience of planning and management for resources and solutions to deliver multiple applications leveraged within Supply Chain
• Enterprise Mindset: Experience in strategic planning and execution of a multi-year staggered deployment schedule while still focusing on the key enterprise technology objectives.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience in working with multiple stakeholders with various needs while providing transparency through regular communication channels.
• Program Management: Broad and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 to 15 years)
• Strategic Thinking: Experience of interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames (Over 10 to 15 years)
• PMP certification or knowledge (preferred, not required)

VIRTUAL REQUIREMENTS:

At DICK'S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.

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• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.
• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidateduring any part of the interview process.
• Offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.

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Targeted Pay Range: $135,000 - $170,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. To learn more, visit