Development CoE Manager

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The Offering Development CoE Manager is responsible for defining, scaling, and continuously evolving the Offering Development Centre of Excellence across the organization. This role provides strategic leadership for the operating model, governance framework, capability roadmap, and supporting processes that enable the development, enhancement, and delivery of high-value offerings. The role serves as a central point of coordination across business functions, technology teams, offering leaders, and senior stakeholders to drive consistency, innovation, adoption of best practices, and operational excellence.

Working across multiple initiatives, the role ensures the CoE delivers measurable business value while supporting the successful development and execution of organizational offerings. In addition, this role provides people leadership for a team of Offering Development Consultants, ensuring consistent execution, capability development, and high performance across the CoE. This role offers the flexibility to be home-based anywhere in the U.S. If you're near our Chicago or Raleigh offices, we follow a friendly hybrid model with three days a week in the office - great for collaboration and connection!

• Define and execute the Offering Development CoE strategy, roadmap, and capability vision aligned to organizational goals.
• Lead and evolve the CoE operating model by establishing governance, standards, and best practices for scalability and consistency.
• Drive efficient, high-impact offering development by optimizing processes and enabling informed investment decisions.

• Partner with stakeholders to design, enhance, and scale offerings using structured frameworks and best practices.
• Drive innovation by leveraging emerging technologies and enabling scalable tools, models, and agile development approaches.
• Support successful implementation through governance, training, and change management.

• Lead strategic CoE initiatives, overseeing planning, prioritization, execution, and resource coordination.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving alignment through data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensure delivery success by managing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capability growth.
• Drive adoption of CoE standards through enablement strategies, communications, and organizational readiness efforts.
• Define and track KPIs to measure business impact, ensure value realization, and drive continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Technology, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in offering development, agile program/project management, sales enablement, transformation, or services strategy
• 3+ years of people management experience, including leading and developing high-performing teams

• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and programs…