Reporting to the Manager, Information Technology, you will serve as a senior individual contributor providing leadership and expertise in lean-agile enablement, coaching, continuous improvement, program governance, and executive reporting for major organizational initiatives. You will coach and guide leaders and teams to identify opportunities to improve behaviors, processes, collaboration, and delivery outcomes while establishing consistent governance practices across major programs. You will provide leaders with clear visibility into progress, dependencies, risks, decisions, and outcomes. As a coach, change agent, and mentor, you will strengthen lean-agile capabilities, support Scaled Agile Framework-based practices, and help teams and leaders improve collaboration, predictability, accountability, and value delivery.
A Taste of Your Responsibilities
- Coach and guide Information Technology leaders, managers, product teams, delivery teams, and business partners in lean-agile mindsets and practices, identifying opportunities to improve behaviors, processes, collaboration, flow, and value delivery.
- Help define, communicate, and advance the lean-agile vision and continuous improvement priorities, aligning opportunities with organizational goals and major initiative outcomes.
- Establish governance for major cross-functional programs, including clear scope, outcomes, milestones, dependencies, decision rights, risks, success measures, and integrated plans needed to manage and report delivery.
- Develop executive-level reporting and facilitate governance forums that provide visibility into program health, strategic alignment, milestones, dependencies, resource considerations, risks, decisions, and actions requiring leadership attention.
- Guide portfolios, programs, and delivery teams through planning, synchronization, review, and improvement activities, keeping discussions focused on strategic alignment, dependency management, measurable outcomes, and value delivery.
- Identify organizational and cultural barriers to lean-agile adoption and partner with change management to strengthen stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption of improved ways of working.
- Assess portfolio, program, and team maturity, identify systemic improvement opportunities, and use communities of practice, pilot programs, and knowledge sharing to test, measure, and scale practices that improve flow, predictability, quality, and value delivery.
- Establish and maintain shared standards for applying Scaled Agile Framework principles and practices across portfolios, programs, and delivery teams.
- Apply a working understanding of software development and modern delivery practices, including flow, DevOps, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, to help teams identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness and efficiency.
- Support effective Jira and Confluence governance by helping establish standards for hierarchy, workflows, data quality, reporting, and adoption, while partnering with system administrators and users on configuration and technical needs.
Ingredients Required for Your Success
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Agile coaching or delivery certification, such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or an equivalent credential, required. Advanced Scaled Agile Framework certification, such as SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), Release Train Engineer (RTE), Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), or an equivalent credential, strongly preferred.
- Six or more years of experience in lean-agile delivery, program or product management, program governance, or portfolio management, including responsibility for major cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization. Consumer Packaged Goods experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience synthesizing complex program information into executive-level reporting, dashboards, data visualizations, and actionable insights and guiding senior leaders toward timely decisions. Experience leveraging analytics and AI-enabled tools to identify trends, inform decisions, and improve processes required; Power BI experience strongly preferred.
- Exceptional leadership, facilitation, organization, change leadership, and communication skills, with demonstrated experience coaching and influencing Information Technology leaders at the manager, director, and senior leadership levels, navigating competing priorities, resolving conflict, identifying organizational barriers, and building stakeholder commitment.
- Demonstrated experience applying lean-agile principles, systems thinking, flow-based delivery, outcome-based planning, and scaling frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework, including facilitation of portfolio-, program-, and team-level planning, synchronization, review, and improvement activities.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and guiding leaders, managers, and delivery teams in lean-agile mindsets and practices, with evidence of improved organizational capability, adoption, or delivery outcomes.
- Working knowledge of software development life cycles and modern delivery practices, including flow metrics, DevOps, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- Experience working with Jira and Confluence in an Agile environment, with an understanding of hierarchy, workflows, data quality, reporting, governance, and user adoption. Experience establishing standards or partnering with system administrators is preferred.
- Travel up to 10 percent annually.
Physical Requirements
Number of Days in Office: 3
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Compensation
Pay Range:$94,300-$138,000
The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.
Our Benefits
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
Our Company
At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.
Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.
