Senior Manager, Product Leader

Overview:

As a Delivery Leader at Deloitte, you will own the delivery for multiple products across our portfolio, ensuring a cohesive strategy and seamless execution across various segments. Your extensive experience in program management and project leadership in Talent and HR applications will be pivotal in driving strategic alignment, inspiring cross-functional teams, and delivering enterprise IT solutions that meet organizational goals. With a strong focus on operational excellence, customer-centric problem-solving, innovation and continuous improvement, you will guide teams to achieve peak performance and deliver high-quality outcomes on time and within budget. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader and mentor, committed to driving success for Deloitte's clients and business investments.

Work you'll do:

• Strategic Vision and Alignment: Lead large-scale implementations, develop and articulate vision and objectives, and ensure alignment with business strategies. Demonstrating strategic vision evolution through continuous learning.
• Evangelism: Inspire product engineering teams, advocate for discovery and delivery practices, and educate the organization on product engineering models. Promote continuous improvement and spread knowledge through community sessions.
• Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Drive complex programs, define and measure product engineering maturity, and achieve Objectives/KPIs. Ensure tools and reports are available to track progress. Conduct quality audits and engage hands-on with delivery and team growth. Learn and experiment with new techniques/tools like GenAI.
• Capability Evolution and Development: Coach delivery managers to develop strong capabilities. Advise on discovery and delivery methodologies, share learnings through evangelism, and provide examples of people development.
• Operational Excellence: Drive process optimization, quality and risk management, capacity planning, and resource utilization and drive operational excellence.
• Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Focus on addressing critical customer issues and aligning teams with business objectives. Engage cross-functional teams to achieve peak outcomes through continuous learning and collaboration.
• Expert Proficiency and Continuous Improvement: Identify inefficiencies, build problem-solving capabilities, and enhance the product engineering model to be lean and adaptable. Guide the organization to embrace lean principles and foster innovation.
• Communication: Influence decision-making processes, ensure effective communication, and resolve conflicts. Foster close collaboration within the product community.
• Delivery Risk Management: Establish risk management processes, identify and mitigate risks, and focus on early learning and fast feedback. Proactively solve problems and plan contingencies.
• Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels, build collaborative relationships, and align teams with common goals.

The Team

US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary product development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. We develop and deploy cutting-edge go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering excellence.

Qualifications

Required

• Experience:
  • 15+ years of experience in delivery management or project leadership, managing enterprise IT solutions across multiple teams and products.
  • Experience working in an HR application landscape. Working with SAP and other ERP systems preferred.
• Required Skills:
  • Strong skills in developing and implementing strategic plans to meet organizational and product goals.
  • Extensive knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, with a track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
  • Effectively identifying and managing program risks to ensure successful delivery.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and manage stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of industry trends, market dynamics, and competitive landscape to drive business growth and innovation.
• Personal Traits: Strong leadership capabilities with Product and Customer-centric mindset.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $130,000 to $268,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.