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$140,800.00 - $182,600.00JOB OVERVIEW:
The Senior Manager – Business Transformation: Manufacturing, Finance, and HR is responsible for leading enterprise business transformation efforts by identifying opportunities, aligning cross-functional needs, and ensuring data, analytics, and digital-enabled initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes.Reporting to the Senior Director, Data Management Office (DMO), this role serves as the primary business-facing leader for transformation initiatives and owns the execution of the DMO project and portfolio management function. The role ensures initiatives are well-defined, properly aligned, delivered with discipline, and adopted by the business, bridging strategy, execution, and value realization across business units.
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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Partner with business unit leadership to identify, shape, and prioritize data, analytics, and digital-enabled transformation opportunities
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions to align on business problems, scope, and success criteria
- Ensure transformation opportunities are grounded in business strategy and supported by clear value cases
- Lead the definition and documentation of business problems, requirements, and success measures
- Validate data, process, and organizational readiness prior to initiatives entering delivery
- Ensure master data, data quality, and system dependencies are identified early and addressed proactively
- Design and operate the DMO project and portfolio management processes
- Ensure consistent planning, milestone definition, risk and dependency management across initiatives
- Drive delivery discipline to ensure initiatives are executed on time, within scope, and with transparency
- Provide regular portfolio status reporting to DMO and executive leadership
- Support enterprise intake and prioritization by ensuring requests are well-defined, aligned, and ready for evaluation
- Recommend priorities, sequencing, and delivery approaches based on business value, readiness, and capacity
- Ensure alignment between business expectations and delivery realities
- Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure business readiness prior to deployment
- Lead change management and adoption planning in partnership with business stakeholders
- Ensure delivered solutions are understood, adopted, and embedded into business processes
- Partner with Finance and business leadership to track realized business value against expected benefits
- Assess whether delivered solutions meet business needs and success criteria
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement based on outcomes and feedback
- Establish and own measures related to: reduction in rework caused by misalignment or unclear requirements, on-time and on-scope delivery of initiatives, business unit engagement and participation (including UAT), transparency of portfolio status/risks/dependencies, and stakeholder satisfaction
MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, other technical degrees
- 10 years of experience delivering enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives
- Demonstrated experience leading project management and portfolio delivery in complex organizations
- Strong understanding of data and analytics–enabled transformation
- Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional prioritization and alignment
- Experience leading change management and driving adoption
- Strong business case development and financial acumen
- Experience working in SAP-centric enterprise environments
Total minimum number of years of experience required in lieu of degree
- 20 or more years
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES
- Experience in CPG, FMCG, manufacturing, agriculture, or similarly complex enterprise environments
- Experience supporting analytics, data platform, or digital transformation initiatives
- Experience working across multiple business units with competing priorities
- Familiarity with formal PMO practices and portfolio governance models
SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS
- N/A
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Must be able to work in office/desk environment for extended periods.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Office
- Occasional travel may be required to support business unit engagement
Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer
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WHY BLUE DIAMOND?
In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE .
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Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. BDG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. BDG also complies with all provisions of the U.S. Government's Executive Order 11246 dated September 24, 1965 and the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor.Top Skills
What We Do
Blue Diamond Growers is on a global mission to share the benefits of almonds with the world. Blue Diamond Growers is the world's largest almond processing and marketing company. We are the world’s leading almond brand, and we’re focused on building markets and creating new products to deliver the benefits of almonds to the world. Made up of more than 3,000 growers, we’re cooperatively owned by half of the state's almond growers who produce over 80 percent of the world almond supply. The California almond crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, the sixth largest U.S. food export and the #1 specialty crop in America. We keep that market-leading position by remaining strategically ahead of the curve, with continual innovations in our award-winning processing plants and information technology systems that have grown by leaps and bounds to support global growth. Our biggest point of differentiation, though, is our people. Through cooperation and teamwork, we, the Almond People as we’re affectionately known, deliver the best-tasting, highest-value almonds and almond products in the world. This is an exciting time at Blue Diamond where every team member can showcase their talents and contribute in new and innovative ways to drive accomplishments. The opportunity is here for each of us to step up, take our futures in hand and find new ways to achieve at Blue Diamond. We’re building on our strengths, learning as we go, trusting one another and realizing unprecedented levels of success. Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
