Offering Development CoE Manager - Remote

Lenovo; Morrisville (NC); Remote; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an Offering Development CoE Manager to provide strategic leadership in evolving the Offering Development Centre of Excellence. The role involves managing a team and driving the development of high-value offerings, ensuring governance and best practices.

Applicants should have over 10 years of experience in offering development and agile management. This position is flexible, allowing for home-based work anywhere in the U.S., with a hybrid model for those near the Chicago or Raleigh offices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offering development, agile program/project management, or services strategy.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives within large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Offering Development CoE strategy aligned to organizational goals.
• Drive efficient offering development by optimizing processes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders with data-driven insights.

Skills

Offering development

Agile program/project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Technology, or related field

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

Overview

The Offering Development CoE Manager is responsible for defining, scaling, and continuously evolving the Offering Development Centre of Excellence across the organization. The role provides strategic leadership for the operating model, governance framework, capability roadmap, and supporting processes that enable the development, enhancement, and delivery of high-value offerings.

The role serves as a central point of coordination across business functions, technology teams, offering leaders, and senior stakeholders to drive consistency, innovation, adoption of best practices, and operational excellence. Working across multiple initiatives, the role ensures the CoE delivers measurable business value while supporting the successful development and execution of organizational offerings.

In addition, this role provides people leadership for a team of Offering Development Consultants, ensuring consistent execution, capability development, and high performance across the CoE.

This role offers the flexibility to be home‑based anywhere in the U.S. If you’re near our Chicago or Raleigh offices, we follow a friendly hybrid model with three days a week in the office—great for collaboration and connection.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Offering Development CoE strategy, roadmap, and capability vision aligned to organizational goals.
• Lead and evolve the CoE operating model by establishing governance, standards, and best practices for scalability and consistency.
• Drive efficient, high‑impact offering development by optimizing processes and enabling informed investment decisions.

Offering Development & Innovation

• Partner with stakeholders to design, enhance, and scale offerings using structured frameworks and best practices.
• Drive innovation by leveraging emerging technologies and enabling scalable tools, models, and agile development approaches.
• Support successful implementation through governance, training, and change management.

Program Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead strategic CoE initiatives, overseeing planning, prioritization, execution, and resource coordination.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving alignment through data‑driven insights and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Ensure delivery success by managing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

People, Adoption & Performance

• Lead and develop a high‑performing team while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capability growth.
• Drive adoption of CoE standards through enablement strategies, communications, and organizational readiness efforts.
• Define and track KPIs to measure business impact, ensure value realization, and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in offering development, agile program/project management, sales enablement, transformation, or services strategy.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including leading and developing high‑performing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross‑functional initiatives and programs within large, global matrixed organizations.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in pricing, business case development, and financial planning.
• Expertise in stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing senior leaders.
• Demonstrated experience building governance frameworks, operating models, and driving process optimization.
• Background in technology services, managed services, or digital transformation, with understanding of sales and delivery models.
• Experience leading within CoE, transformation, or enterprise capability teams, including portfolio management and capability development.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary budgeted range for this position is 180K - 215K. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission. Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com.

Application Deadline

In compliance with Colorado’s EPEWA, the expected application deadline for this position is August 1, 2026. This applies to both external and internal candidates.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.