Senior Finance Programs Lead

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA, based in Salisbury, NC, seeks an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead large, high‑risk strategic programs within the Finance organization. You will oversee multiple workstreams, align with senior leadership, and drive accountability to achieve financial and business objectives.

This role emphasizes collaboration across geographies, mentoring project managers, and shaping project governance and charter development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across finance, business analysis, transformation & project management.
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience.
• Experience facilitating and driving meetings.
• Experience on Project / Solution Life Cycles.
• Experience with delivering finance programs and requirements.
• Experience working with cross functional teams across multiple geographies.
• Business and financial acumen.
• Facilitation Skills.
• Project management experience (PMP Certification preferred)
• Knowledge and experience of financial systems, SAP a plus
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills
• 10+ years' progressive program management experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and oversight to a team delivering high impact programs.
• Represent the Finance organization on large scale projects.
• Lead objectives across multiple projects and functions.
• Establish baseline objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources.
• Apprise Sr Leadership of program status and goals.
• Ensure alignment to project scope and ADUSA strategy.
• Act objectively, challenging, when necessary, to provide transparency to project stakeholders.
• Understand impacts of change and decisions beyond the immediate results.
• Engage with Project Champions, Executive Sponsors and project teams to establish baseline objectives.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and leadership to an assigned team of Project Managers in methodology execution, deliverable preparation, and stakeholder alignment to project objectives.
• Participate in development of the project charter, obtain stakeholder approval, and manage scope changes.
• Facilitate development of the project Governance, working with the Finance teams to develop, obtain stakeholder approval, and ensure information remains current and teams are held accountable.
• Develop and maintain project plans for each project/program at the proper level of detail to adequately track and report on progress.
• Provide project teams with agendas and meeting minutes.
• Develop and maintains actions/issue/risk logs for each initiative to track actions, issues, and risk to resolution/mitigation.
• Develop consolidated, standard, and accurate initiative status reporting, as per the defined schedule.
• Manage and maintain all project documents within the project website

Skills

Finance expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Facilitation skills

Project management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA, based in Salisbury, NC, seeks an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead large, high‑risk strategic programs within the Finance organization. You will oversee multiple workstreams, align with senior leadership, and drive accountability to achieve financial and business objectives.

This role emphasizes collaboration across geographies, mentoring project managers, and shaping project governance and charter development.