Sr Manager, Program Management

The GI Mod PMO Senior Manager is responsible for driving orderly and timely workstream execution and delivery for the Global Indirect Sourcing & Procurement (IS&P) Modernization program. The GI Mod program is an effort to establish the IS&P Function within McDonald's and implement "One McDonald's Way" of how McDonald's does Indirect Sourcing and Procurement across the globe.

This role reports to the Global Finance (GF)/GI Mod PMO Director, ensuring predictable execution, risk-managed delivery, and cross-functional alignment for one of McDonald's most critical and multi-functional global transformation programs.

- Work with GF/GI Mod PMO Lead and Transformation Leadership to establish program and project strategy, approach, workstreams and overall structure and timeline for the initiative. - Ensure the program is operating to plan, proactively identifying risk and issues and engaging the right parties to mitigate risk and resolve issues - Establish and facilitate program governance and project status forums, ensuring all parties are apprised of actions and decisions - Accountable for leading a multi-year initiative leveraging a team of experienced program managers, market resources, and functional subject matter experts assigned to the initiative. - Coordinate and engage with key cross-workstream internal partners (e.g., functional solutions, enabling services) to streamline interactions while maintaining line of sight to dependencies required for success - Help with implementation and reinforcement of project management methodology - Advise leadership and/or business executives at the highest levels about the initiative, leveraging the standard status and communication reporting processes - Provide project workplan management support, keeping track of plans, budget, quality standards, deliverables, and dependencies - Track and monitor project metrics, reporting and project finance management - Facilitate internal and external meetings - Monitor relationships and dependencies between project areas and active improvement submission - Organize project resource management, ensuring the proper onboarding / offboarding of program team members, and maintaining adherence to relevant security, data, and access policies in alignment with McDonald's Data and Security Governance Standards - Build program updates for McDonald's Leadership that shows the progress of the project and potential barriers

- 8+ years of prior program and project management experience leading large scale, global integrated transformation programs, preferably in Procurement systems like SAP Ariba. - Proven leadership in planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring successful outcomes and value realization - Strong stakeholder management and communication planning capabilities across senior and cross-functional audiences - Expertise in change control, performance measurement, risk and issue management, and adherence to PMO standards, processes, and tools - Ability to inspire and align others around a compelling future vision to drive engagement and results

The expected salary range for this role is $141,955.00 - $177,444.00 per year