Senior Program Manager; IT​/Digital Transformation

Position: Senior Program Manager (IT/Digital Transformation)
City Brewing Company – Who We Are City Brewing & Beverage is a leading U.S. co-manufacturer for top beverage brands. With more than 25 years of experience and state-of-the-art high scale and high volume facilities, we have the ability to produce a diverse portfolio of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. We foster a collaborative, growth-focused workplace where employees are empowered to learn, lead, and make an impact while helping shape the future of the beverage industry.

Job Summary The Senior Program Manager is responsible for the planning and execution of City Brewery’s strategic digital programs across enterprise-wide, cross functional teams. This role will collaborate with business leaders across all functions to determine and fulfill technology and system needs. The Senior Program Manager plays an integral role leading City Brewery’s Digital Transformation plans by working directly with executives, IT teams, and end users to enable successful program management with a forward approach to change management ensuring success and adoption.

This position will be responsible for the full life cycle of program and project management from initiation through deployment using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. They will be responsible for the strategic and tactical level planning of projects/programs and for the successful delivery of key initiative outcomes that achieve operational priorities. This includes ensuring deliverables align with the applicable scope, timeline, budget and achieve the expected long-term benefits of the entire program.

Duties and Responsibilities Delivers multifaceted IT programs across different technology areas like infrastructure, cyber, business applications, or collaboration and productivity platforms

Provides day-to-day leadership to cross functional program teams, operating with a high degree of autonomy

Builds and maintains the program plan, defining phase deliverables, milestones, schedules, resource and role assignments, and cross-workstream dependencies

Drives day-to-day execution, assigning tasks, evaluating risks and recommending contingency plans, resolving issues, and ensuring quality of program deliverables

Governs vendors and systems integrators within program scope, including SOW development, staff augmentation, milestone tracking, and deliverable acceptance

Creates, delivers, and maintains a Communication Plan throughout programs

Serves as the voice of the employee in change management activities, providing visibility to end user impacts

Leads business application deployments through the full delivery lifecycle: requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, configuration versus customization decisions, system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) coordination, data migration, cutover planning, and post go-live hypercare

Secures business process owner alignment and support on target-state processes, role ownership, and business readiness criteria prior to go-live Ensures a high quality training and adoption approach is in place, including training plans, super-user networks, and adoption and hypercare metrics

Tracks program financials and performance against plan, including budget versus actuals, resource forecasts, and business case and return on investment Ensures change control, segregation of duties, and applicable SOX and food and beverage regulatory requirements are met for all system changes

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree with focus in Information Technology, or equivalent related business experience7+ years of experience leading enterprise or global technology programs

Demonstrated ability to develop multi-year program roadmaps and execute against them, including phasing, dependency management, and benefit…