S'more about the team

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic PMO to lead a team of Project Managers and oversee a portfolio of high-impact projects aimed at enhancing business performance, enabling product innovation, and transforming operational capabilities. You will take ownership of overall portfolio performance and management, including resourcing, planning, reporting, and governance. You will work directly with executive leadership to ensure alignment with organizational priorities and play a dual role as a project manager within the portfolio, overseeing end-to-end management of key initiatives and driving impactful outcomes.

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

• Portfolio Oversight: Oversee the entire portfolio of initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, and offer hands-on guidance as necessary for the successful end-to-end execution of initiatives
• Team Leadership and Management: Lead and mentor a team of Project Managers, ensuring accountability for performance and providing robust support throughout the project delivery lifecycle. Direct the development of comprehensive project proposals, charters, plans, schedules, resource plans, business plans, and performance metrics, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
• Project & Program Delivery: Oversee and manage the end-to-end execution of high complexity projects and/or programs with high impact within HelloFresh Canada. Manage cross-functional stakeholders to collect their inputs and ensure their commitment in your project and its timely delivery
• Problem Solving & Decision Recommendations: Address complex problems across multiple business areas, utilizing technical problem-solving skills to analyze and present data for providing well-founded recommendations to senior leadership, facilitating informed decision-making
• Stakeholder Consultation: Act as a sounding board to key business leaders, addressing emerging challenges, and analyzing key issues to provide well-founded recommendations for informed decision-making.
• Project Documentation & Progress Tracking: Establish and maintain robust project documentation and systems for reporting project and portfolio progress and outcomes. 
• Champion Project Management Best Practices: Coach and educate stakeholders on project management tools and methodology, especially when stakeholders manage their own projects within a program overseen by the Senior Manager.
• All other duties, as assigned 

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

• 5+ years of project management experience, with demonstrated capability in handling highly complex programs with significant impact and multiple dependencies
• Experience managing direct reports and/or project resources within a team setting
• Strong knowledge of supply chain and operations
• Strategic Vision: Possess a strategic mindset with the ability to align project initiatives with broader organizational goals and objectives.
• Methodical Problem Solver: Showcases creativity and resourcefulness in addressing challenges, offering innovative solutions to complex problems. Demonstrates a strong grasp of relevant theories, applying them strategically for effective problem resolution
• Effective Coach: Proven ability to guide and mentor Project Managers, fostering continuous learning and skill development to elevate team capabilities.
• Quick Learner: An exceptional learner, able to work within multiple programs, processes, and deliverables and find the right solution to every problem
• Influential Leadership: Ability to inspire and influence team members, stakeholders, and key business leaders to foster collaboration and commitment to project goals.
• High Autonomy: Ability to work independently with a highly structured and conscientious approach, while fostering effective collaboration across diverse teams and seniority levels
• Strong Communicator: Exhibit strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex ideas and strategies to diverse audiences.
• Collaborative Team Player: Embraces a growth mindset, prioritizing the team's reputation and goals with utmost dedication.
• Continuous Improvement Champion: Champions continuous improvement and adaptable to business requirements
• Quality Focus: Passionate about delivering exceptional results with obsessive attention to detail, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in all aspects of the work.
• High proficiency in utilizing structured problem-solving methodologies and technical analysis approaches to investigate and resolve complex issues
• Bachelor’s Degree in in Business, Management, Engineering, Computer Science or related fields
• Proficiency in both waterfall and agile project management methodologies. PMP and Agile Scrum Master certification are pluses
• Lean Six Sigma, software development, database principles and knowledge and experience preferred

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

• Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
• Health & Wellness -Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
• Vacation & PTO -Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance. 
• Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
• Growth & Development - We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund.
• Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
• Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience. 

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

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Working Conditions

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.