See's Candies · 15 hours ago
Director, Supply Chain Portfolio | Product Management
Carson, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$180K/yr - $205K/yr
10+ years expSee's Candies is a leader in the confectionary industry with a reputation for producing high-quality candy. They are seeking a Director of Supply Chain Portfolio to manage the planning, staffing, and execution of the IT roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and continuous improvement of technology solutions.
Retail
Responsibilities
Participate in IT Council and Top Staff meetings to ensure understanding of business objectives and challenges
Enhance the project portfolio delivery life cycle methodology and provide education and training to all key stakeholders
Enhance and align the process for managing the portfolio of projects on an annual basis would include quarterly alignment sessions with business leaders
Develop project portfolio objectives aligned to the overall corporate objectives to ensure prioritized initiatives are delivered and IT investments are optimized
Create and maintain IT project portfolio strategically aligned with business objectives and executives including an annual portfolio refresh
Ensure business case and ROI content is complete and normalized across the portfolio
Develop and mentor a right sized project management team to execute portfolio initiatives as well as 'run the business' IT projects using blended permanent and consulting PM and QA resources
Provide project management for portfolio initiatives ensuring that business objectives, schedules, and budgets are attained
Allocate IT resources for all projects
Ensure that all platforms are governed by well-groomed enhancement roadmaps that are approved by business and aligned with business objectives
Ensure that all platform roadmaps include required software upgrade and patch cycles and hardware refreshes to ensure excellent operation, security and performance
Ensure that all changes adhere to established SDLC procedures
Develop standards for requirements gathering QA, change, configuration and release management
Qualification
Required
Significant experience managing IT portfolios includes strategic architecture planning, application roadmap planning and technical roadmap planning for an online retailer, a brick-and-mortar retailer and/or a manufacturing operation
Significant experience managing IT Project Managers includes project delivery, establishing PM best practices and PM staff development for an online retailer, a brick-and-mortar retailer and/or a manufacturing operation
Proven track record of successful IT Portfolio and Project Management career progression
Ability to communicate positively, concisely and accurately to business leaders as well as all levels in IT
Ability to get the job done in a small IT organization in a challenging IT and business environment
B.S. degree in Business or Technology related field
Minimum 10 years' experience in Business Systems and Functional Analysis required
Minimum 5 years' Project Management experience required
Minimum 3 years' Product and Portfolio Management experience required
Preferred
M.S. degree in related field preferred
Benefits
Generous medical
Financial
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits
Vacation
Sick time
Parental leave
Company
See's Candies
See's Candies has been dedicated to making candy Mary See's way. Only the finest, freshest ingredients are used in making each recipe. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown1972-01-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Pat Egan
President & CEO
Recent News
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