Enterprise Program Lead - Restaurant Ops & Tech (In-Office NB)

Chipotle Mexican Grill; Newport Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Chipotle Mexican Grill in Newport Beach, CA is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Manager (Restaurant Operations & Technology) to plan, evaluate, and drive enterprise initiatives that deliver measurable business value.

You will partner with executives across Finance, Operations, Technology, and Development to shape business cases, govern programs, and realize benefits through structured delivery and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive experience leading complex project, program, portfolio, commercialization, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, cross-functional programs with significant dependencies, organizational visibility, and business impact.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including experience evaluating business cases, ROI, costs, benefits, labor impacts, capacity requirements, or other value-realization measures.
• Experience with portfolio planning, prioritization, resource/capacity management, governance, or strategic investment decision support.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with functions such as Finance, Operations, Technology, Supply Chain, Marketing, Culinary, Development, and Training.
• Experience presenting complex initiatives, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to senior and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, highly visible enterprise initiatives from intake and scoping through planning, execution, deployment, and value realization.
• Develop and manage detailed end-to-end program plans, including milestones, critical paths, dependencies, risks, decision points, and measurable exit criteria.
• Coordinate multiple cross-functional workstreams and proactively identify dependencies or blockers that could impact execution.
• Adapt the level and type of program support based on the complexity, maturity, and evolving needs of each initiative.
• Drive accountability across project teams and ensure decisions, risks, and dependencies are resolved at the appropriate level.

Skills

Strategic program leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Portfolio planning

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

Program governance

Change management

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Planview

Job description

Chipotle Mexican Grill in Newport Beach, CA is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Manager (Restaurant Operations & Technology) to plan, evaluate, and drive enterprise initiatives that deliver measurable business value.

You will partner with executives across Finance, Operations, Technology, and Development to shape business cases, govern programs, and realize benefits through structured delivery and governance.