Manager - Enterprise Advisory

Why Wendy's

When our square shaped burgers made their first sizzle on the scene more than 50 years ago, people knew our approach wasn't like any other. Same goes for the way we support our employees. Our culture of openness, flexibility, and inclusiveness allows everybody to flourish in their own way. If you're looking for a career where you can be part of the action as we continue to grow our iconic brand – We got you!

The Enterprise Advisory Manager is an individual contributor with strong project management and continuous improvement coaching capabilities. This role is responsible for serving as a strategic thought partner to key C‑suite clients and their leadership teams, facilitating strategic planning activities, advising on process improvement opportunities, and supporting the execution of strategic initiatives within the client portfolio. This individual must be able to flex across initiatives and clients, and is expected to establish both breadth and depth of understanding of client strategy, KPIs, organizational and cultural norms, processes, and team intersections such that they can provide expert advisory support and guidance.

The role is expected to continuously monitor and internalize evolving project management, portfolio management, and continuous improvement industry standards, serving as a model and advocate for their integration across the organization.

• Supports the maturity and evolution of Wendy's Enterprise Priorities Office with a strong focus on continuous improvement. Acts as a strategic liaison to drive organizational transformation, facilitate process optimization, and embed a culture of ongoing improvement and accountability across teams and initiatives.
• Partners with program/project managers and business teams to proactively identify opportunities for improvement, support root cause analysis, and drive resolution of project and process constraints. Advocates for the integration of CI and change management tools to drive sustainable project/program outcomes and organizational agility.
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves EPO and CI governance frameworks, policies, and standards in partnership with Sr. Director‑CI and EPO. Leads the adoption of continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen) and project management best practices (e.g. waterfall, agile, hybrid) to enhance delivery effectiveness, operational efficiency, and value realization.
• Supports project opportunity identification, selection, prioritization, resource allocation, and benefits realization tracking processes for client project portfolios. Works under minimal direction while providing executive‑level portfolio reporting, including analysis of project health, risks, and performance metrics, to inform strategic decision‑making.
• Leverages continuous improvement methodologies to help teams assess opportunities for improvement (e.g., clarity on roles/responsibilities, define team KPIs, productivity enhancements, etc.) and partners with business teams and leaders to make improvements.

• Education:
  
  Bachelors Degree or 10–12+ years of experience leading large‑scale transformations and high‑impact, high‑visibility initiatives.
• Strong track record of integrating continuous improvement with project and portfolio management, resulting in enhanced efficiency, effectiveness, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated expertise in continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen) and their application within complex, cross‑functional environments.
• 10+ years of experience developing project plans including a charter, scope, statement of work, cost estimates, capacity planning and forecasting, benefits tracking, and value realization quantification.
• Solid understanding of end‑to‑end business strategy. Demonstrated success in identifying, driving and delivering innovative solutions through productive and lasting partnerships with business partners.
• Expert knowledge of project management best practices, including knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies and project management platforms and reporting.
• Demonstrated depth of project management…