Strategic Program Lead – Fresh Food Operations

Amazon; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 153 000 - 207 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Whole Foods Market is seeking a Principal Program Manager to help shape the future of how we produce freshly prepared food in centralized commissary kitchens. This is a strategic, senior role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and can define strategy where little exists today.

Working across Amazon VP organizations and with senior leadership at WFM and Amazon, you will lead a significant, complex initiative from concept through execution, building the business case, aligning stakeholders, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in program or project management.
• 7+ years communicating results to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization.
• Experience owning program strategy and end-to-end delivery.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.
• Deep knowledge of food production and kitchen operations, supply chain and distribution, and the associated food safety and regulatory controls.

Responsabilités

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for a significant, complex initiative, driving clarity where the business problem and strategy are not yet fully defined.
• Build out business cases and financial plans, framing capital, operational, and strategic tradeoffs for senior leaders and grounding recommendations in data.
• Partner across merchandising, supply chain, operations, quality assurance and food safety, finance, technology, and other functional teams to align the organization on a coherent operating model and clear ownership.
• Establish the planning, forecasting, and performance mechanisms needed to run the program and measure its success.
• Design and launch pilots to validate our strategy, including clear learning plans, and create the stage gates that govern how and when the program scales.
• Prepare and drive executive-ready reviews, business cases, and PR/FAQ and narrative documents, representing complex decisions and tradeoffs clearly to VPs and, when needed, SVPs.
• Identify and mitigate program risks, building in the redundancy and contingency needed to protect continuity of service to stores and customers.
• Actively develop the program management community through mentoring, promotion assessments, and best-practice sharing.
• Travel Requirements: Approximately 30% travel to facilities, stores, and partner sites may be required.

Connaissances

Program management

Senior leadership communication

Data-driven decisions

Automation/process design

Strategic thinking

Food production knowledge

KPI tracking

Formation

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Description du poste

Whole Foods Market is seeking a Principal Program Manager to help shape the future of how we produce freshly prepared food in centralized commissary kitchens. This is a strategic, senior role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and can define strategy where little exists today.

Working across Amazon VP organizations and with senior leadership at WFM and Amazon, you will lead a significant, complex initiative from concept through execution, building the business case, aligning stakeholders, and