Executive Director, Enterprise Program Management

Why Work for KeHE?

• Full-time
• Pay Range: $/Yr.
  
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• Benefits on Day 1
  • Health/Rx
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Paid sick time
  • Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
  • Holiday pay for company designated holidays

Good people, working with good people, for our common good.

Sound good?

KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor-is all about "good" and is growing, so there's never been a more exciting time to join our team. If you're enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we'd love to talk to you!

The Executive Director, Enterprise Program Management will serve as a trusted advisor and enterprise-level thought partner to the Executive Leadership Team, driving company-wide, multi-year initiatives that enable organizational transformation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. This role will set the strategic direction for and lead the Program Management Office (PMO), ensuring enterprise governance, prioritization, and successful execution of mission-critical, cross-enterprise programs across multiple business units.

In addition to having responsibility over the “federal” or “hub” of the Enterprise PMO, and ultimate accountability for outcomes across the full program portfolio, this role will also empower and provide oversight to the “spoke” PMOs in each function (project managers within Operations, Sales, IT, and Shared Services). As with all positions at KeHE Distributors, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE’s Mission, Vision, and Values.

• Establish and own the enterprise PMO framework, ensuring alignment with long-term enterprise strategy, business objectives, and capital investment priorities.
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide governance standards, methodologies, and best practices for program and project delivery.
• Oversee enterprise portfolio prioritization, investment trade-offs, and capacity planning to maximize business impact and ROI.
• Lead (as needed) executive-level monthly and quarterly reviews with functions or enterprise teams.
• Define and enforce a project “tiering” system that enables clear executive decision-making regarding which programs are best handled by the “federal” PMO versus within the function.
• Create and own executive stage-gate and investment review processes to ensure programs continue only if they deliver clear ROI, including authority to pause or terminate initiatives as needed.

• Translate corporate strategy into integrated, multi-year enterprise program roadmaps and execution plans.
• Partner with C-suite leaders to ensure initiatives deliver measurable outcomes tied to strategic and financial goals.
• Partner with Finance to govern capitalized labor, investment tracking, and realization of benefits at the enterprise level, ensuring results are reflected in the P&L.
• Proactively identify enterprise-wide resource, capability, and dependency risks before they impact delivery.
• Provide board- and executive-ready reporting, insights, and recommendations to enable informed strategic decision-making.

• Drive enterprise consistency and maturity in program management tools, templates, and processes.
• Sponsor and support enterprise-wide capability building and training related to program governance and execution standards
• Champion enterprise change leadership, ensuring adoption, accountability, and sustained value realization.
• Collaborate with HR, Communications, and functional leaders to shape culture, operating models, and ways of working in support of transformation.

• Serve as the primary executive interface between the PMO, Executive Leadership Team, and Board-level forums, facilitating Steering Committees and governance bodies.
• Deliver executive-caliber presentations that clearly articulate progress, risks, financial…