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ID #41157598
State Pennsylvania
City Carlisle
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Retail Business Services
Showed 2022-05-19
Date 2022-05-18
Deadline 2022-07-17
Category Internet engineering
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Senior Manager Application Development

Pennsylvania, Carlisle, 17013 Carlisle USA

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Address: USA-PA-Carlisle-1149 Harrisburg Pike Store Code: Solution Dev-Eng Mkt and Dipla (2762261)

Retail Business Services is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, providing services to five East Coast grocery brands: Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the size and scale of the local brands to and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.For more information, visit https:// www.retailbusinessservices.com .

Retail Business Services is looking for an energetic Development Manager to join our team located in Salisbury, NC. This position will lead IT developers, vendors and third party providers to build innovative web solutions. As a RBS Development Manager, you will lead a team of IT professionals that provide new design, functionality and support for internal applications and associated services. The ideal candidate will be an experienced manager with expertise managing software development projects. The candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, familiar with Agile development processes and has strong process improvement skills.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Maintain strategic alignment

Work collaboratively with Global portfolio management and business analysis peers to maintain the strategic IT project portfolio alignment with Business and IT strategy

• Manages the investment portfolio and ensure that all planned investments are aligned with the business and IT stakeholders and have executive stakeholder commitment

• Continuously evaluate, prioritize and optimize IT investment portfolio based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits and critical risk across all regions. The portfolio manager ensures that Investment evaluation process meets RBS's investment standards and criteria and has the proper authorization level.

• Continuously review the project investment portfolio to identify and exploit synergies, eliminate duplication across all regions and between individuals programs.

• Reviews and assess strategic project initiation deliverables such business cases on strategic justification and risk.

• Manages resources to support demand. Ensure that the "solution teams" efforts are properly scheduled and staffed, that all staff are properly allocated to ensure that commitments are met as scheduled and within budget. Organize and direct the "solution team" and third-party providers in the planning, development, implementation and operations support of systems to support the assigned portfolio in alignment with the IT strategic roadmap

2. Integrated planning and road mapping

Scheduling of programs and projects that best support the strategic intent of RBS IT

• Scheduling of projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders

• Identification of direct and indirect dependencies

• Updates and maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap based on latest changes on project and program level

• Facilitates integrated planning sessions across domains

• Communication of a multi-layered portfolio plan

• Coordinates with Project Managers, vendors and Business Relationship Managers to allocate resources to areas within the portfolio in need of most improvement. Balance the resources across projects and operating units to optimize benefits delivery to the business

• Responsible for cost consequence within portfolio. Study, analyze, and define the impact of business needs on the system components and its interfaces to provide maximum benefits from each system and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

3. Monitor and report on project portfolio

Analyze and report on the performance of the project portfolio and individual programs throughout the entire lifecycle

• Continuously monitor and track the full Ahold IT project portfolio, its progress and performance and the successful development of the required business and IT capabilities

• Tracking, mitigation of critical and portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalation to the appropriate IT leadership meetings. Monitor overall risk profile of project portfolio

• Co-ordination critical project interdependencies in order to safeguard the coherent and integrated definition, planning and delivery of the portfolio

• Provides senior IT and business leadership with accurate view of the project/investment portfolio based on appropriate performance targets allowing them to make rapid and effective decisions

• Ensures life cycle assessment for selected portfolio components occurs, determining remaining useful life of hardware/software components based on business functionality, technical architecture, vendor strategies, competitor activities, and package alternatives

4. Quality Assurance

Ensure delivery across the project portfolio that is in line with quality standards, in particular for prioritized projects

• Identify projects that require independent quality assurance (e.g. high risk, high value projects)

• Facilitates stage-gates for strategic high risk projects in the portfolio

• Develop portfolio quality assurance framework, standards and tooling.

• Support the delivery of project quality assurance (e.g. peer reviews)

5. Monitor benefits achievement

Report on actual benefits realization based on the approved business case

• Benefits tracking: initiate the process to monitor actual benefit realization in the business after project implementation

• Evaluates if business benefits significantly deviate from expected benefits, escalate issues to the appropriate party and implement lessons learned in the portfolio prioritization process.

Basic Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor (e.g. MIS, Computer Science, IT Management)

• 8-10 years IT experience

• 3 or more years progressively responsible management experience in IT

Skills and Abilities:
  • Strong background in Software Development
  • Experience leading teams in a Agile/Devops environment
  • Fluent English (word and writing); Excellent Communicator & Inspiring Attitude
  • Analytical skills & a bias towards getting things done
  • Strong facilitator skills in improvement processes; a strong advocate & change agent for driving business to be at its best, pushing boundaries of current processes to fit an evolving IT department focused on agile & dev/ops.
  • Strong in strategic topics, adding value to vision and strategy with ability to separate near term tactical objectives from long term strategies and alignment.
  • Knowledge of retail grocery and the technology that supports that environment with experience coordinating cross-functional teams (internal & external) for project delivery across a multi-brand company.
  • Experience leading large technical teams with external partners and complex interactions

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Retail Business Services is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities.

If you have a disability and require assistance in the application process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at tad@retailbusinessservices.com>

Job Requisition: 248078externalUSA-PA-Carlisle5172022

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