Required Skills & Experience
8+ years in program or project management, including 3+ years leading multiple workstreams at the senior program manager level Experience delivering regulatory or compliance technology programs against fixed deadlines Background in retail, grocery, food distribution, manufacturing, supply chain or food safety Experience with programs involving ERP, warehouse systems, supply chain platforms, product data platforms or enterprise integrations Experience implementing data exchange, event capture, product traceability or supply chain visibility solutions Experience coordinating suppliers, vendors or external solution providers Strong Agile delivery experience combined with traditional program management: milestone planning, RAID management, risk and dependency management, and stakeholder communication Strong executive communication and steering committee experience
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Direct FDA FSMA 204 or food traceability experience Familiarity with GS1 standards, EDI or master data management Change management experience PMP, PgMP, SAFe or similar certification
Job Description
An employer is seeking a Senior Technology Program Manager contractor for a Fortune 50 retail client's food traceability program. The client is building company-wide capabilities to comply with the FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Section 204, which requires tracing food products from source through distribution to the shelf.
This is an enterprise program. It touches every group that handles the client's products and involves a large supplier and external partner network. You'll join a team of program managers, each owning different functional areas. You'll coordinate business, technology and supplier workstreams to deliver compliant capabilities by the regulatory deadline, while adjusting to changing federal requirements.
What you'll do
Lead planning and delivery of FSMA traceability technology across multiple workstreams and business functions Build and maintain an integrated program plan covering milestones, dependencies, deliverables, resources and critical path Build program-level milestone plans from the plans of underlying project teams Be the link between Business, Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, Security and outside solution providers Coordinate with suppliers, vendors and consulting partners on data exchange and integrated delivery Own the RAID process (risks, actions, issues, decisions), and resolve blockers and escalate critical items quickly Keep plans aligned with regulatory deadlines and requirements, and adjust as the federal mandate changes Run governance meetings, status reviews and steering committees, and give executives clear reporting on program health Track readiness for pilots, testing, user acceptance, deployment and production release Support change management and organizational readiness as traceability capabilities roll out
Travel: Up to 10%