Digital Innovation Operations Manager

DuPont; Avilés; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont in Spain is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to lead the Digital Innovation portfolio, driving AI, automation, and analytics initiatives across a global enterprise.

You will own governance, planning cycles, and Jira-enabled delivery, shaping how teams work, report progress, and make decisions. You will partner with IT and business leaders to ensure adoption, measure value, and maintain data-driven updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Business or related field.
• 10+ years in technical project/program management, operations, or similar.
• 5+ years supporting digital, AI, automation, analytics or enterprise tech initiatives.
• Demonstrated Jira deployment and adoption experience.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a global enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating rhythm of the Digital Innovation portfolio, including planning cycles and governance.
• Track progress across AI, analytics, automation, and digital enablement initiatives.
• Shape executive updates, dashboards, and briefing materials for decision-making.
• Drive adoption of new capabilities, change management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Define Jira project/workflow design and ensure data quality & reporting as the source of truth.

Skills

Program management

AI & analytics programs

Change management

Executive communication

Data storytelling

Cross-functional teamwork

Influential leadership

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Microsoft Teams

Job description

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. Why Join Us | DuPont Careers

Where strategy meets momentum

DuPont’s Digital Innovation team builds AI, automation, and analytics capabilities that help a global science company work faster, smarter, and with greater impact. The team manages a growing portfolio of priorities across the business and needs a strong leader who can turn strategy into disciplined execution.

How You’ll Create Impact

Keep strategic initiatives moving

You own the operating rhythm of the Digital Innovation portfolio: planning cycles, governance forums, leadership reviews, and the follow-through that happens between them. You track progress across AI, analytics, automation, and digital enablement initiatives, map the dependencies that connect them, and drive the conversations that unblock delivery. Risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional snags get named early and escalated with a recommendation attached, not just a flag.

Turn information into decisions

Leaders across IT and the businesses depend on a clear, current picture of where the portfolio stands. You gather that picture from program teams, vendors, and Center of Excellence partners, then shape it into executive updates, dashboards, and briefing materials that are short, honest, and decision ready. You frame the choice, lay out the trade-offs, capture what was decided, and close the loop on actions.

Build the ways of working

You help people successfully adopt the capabilities we deliver. From AI enablement and training programs to communications, stakeholder engagement, and change management, you ensure new ways of working become lasting habits. You champion responsible AI practices and help teams realize measurable value from the technologies we introduce.

Build the operating system for delivery

Jira is becoming the backbone of how Digital Innovation plans and tracks work, and this role owns that transition. You will define the project and workflow design, configure boards, backlogs, and reporting to match how the team delivers, and partner with platform support teams on administration and integrations. Just as importantly, you will drive adoption: onboarding teams, running training, writing the documentation people reach for, and steadily raising data quality until Jira is the single trusted source of portfolio status.

What Success Looks Like In Year One

Three months

You know every active initiative, its owner, its timeline, and its risks, and the leadership update cadence is running on a predictable schedule. Jira is properly configured and fully deployed across the team's core programs with agreed workflows and fields, and every team is onboarded and trained.

Six months

Portfolio status is pulled from Jira rather than assembled by hand, and leadership reviews start from live data.

Twelve months

Decisions, actions, and dependencies live in one place, and the operating rhythm holds.

What You Bring

• Program management depth: planning, prioritization, risk management, decision tracking, and relentless follow-through.
• Experience delivering initiatives at the enterprise scale involving AI, automation, and analytics.
• Curiosity and a learner mindset that keeps pace with emerging technologies.
• Adoption and change management, including knowledge of the ADKAR model.
• Hands-on Jira experience, including project and workflow configuration, backlog and board design, and reporting; Confluence and other work management tools are a plus.
• Executive communication skills: the judgment to know what a leader needs to see, and the discipline to say it in one page.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Collaboration tools including M365, Sharepoint, PowerBI, Teams, etc…
• Data storytelling: the ability to compile information from multiple sources and shape it into a clear, compelling story that helps leaders understand progress, value, and next steps.
• A talent for creating structure in ambiguous environments and keeping teams aligned on priorities, owners, and next steps.
• Strong influential leadership skills and the ability to build trust quickly with business partners, functional leaders, and technical teams.
• High ownership, sharp attention to detail, sound judgment, and comfort managing competing priorities.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years in technical project management, program management, business operations, or a closely related role.
• 5+ years supporting digital, AI, automation, analytics, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience deploying or administering a work management platform such as Jira, including driving adoption across teams.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a complex, global enterprise environment.

Why You'll Want This Role

You will work alongside data scientists, analytics leaders, designers, and business partners on emerging technology that is genuinely new to the company, and you will help decide how DuPont adopts it responsibly.

This is also a builder's role. The processes, the reporting, the Jira environment, the operating rhythm - you will shape all of it, and the way this team works a year from now will look the way you designed it. If you want scope, proximity to decision-making, and a portfolio of work that matters, this is the seat.

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