Senior Manager, Application Delivery-Sales & Marketing

Senior Manager of Application Delivery

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The position summary outlines the general nature and purpose of the role. Overall accountabilities are defined in this section.

As the Senior Manager of Application Delivery, you will play a key role in leading the delivery and support of technology solutions across Smithfield. You'll work closely with business leaders, vendor partners, and cross-functional IT teams to ensure initiatives are executed effectively and aligned with organizational goals. Success in this role depends on your ability to drive collaboration, maintain strong partnerships, and deliver results.

What You'll Do:

• Strategic Alignment & Planning: Collaborating with IT leadership and business stakeholders to define and execute strategic initiatives that support long-term business goals. This includes integrating systems and aligning IT strategy with business objectives within specific sub-functions or regions.
• Business Change Enablement: Owning and managing the planning and execution of business changes through technology, ensuring that initiatives deliver measurable value and competitive advantage.
• Innovation & Opportunity Identification: Proactively identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies for increased productivity, cost savings, and enhanced business capabilities. This includes guiding research, supporting pilots, and recommending solutions that anticipate business needs.
• Technical Leadership & Application Oversight: Providing hands-on guidance across functional groups for solutioning and application delivery. Overseeing the design, development, and configuration of applications to ensure quality, consistency, and alignment with business requirements.
• Risk & Issue Management: Supporting risk management and control practices throughout the development lifecycle. Acting as a point of escalation for technical issues and ensuring timely resolution.
• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicating decisions, priorities, and project updates to relevant stakeholders across the organization.
• Process & Continuous Improvement: Encouraging process innovation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the IT organization.
• Relationship & Vendor Management: Coordinating with internal teams, vendors, and third-party providers to ensure successful project delivery. Supporting vendor relationship management and contract coordination in partnership with Strategic Sourcing.
• Portfolio & Service Management: Managing a portfolio of services and technology innovations tailored to business needs within a specific area, enabling frontline competitive positioning.
• Team Leadership & Capability Building: Leading teams responsible for identifying, assessing, and promoting new technologies. Supporting solution delivery and application development while mentoring talent and building organizational capability.

What We're Seeking:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a position of leadership to include team development and management or managing processes and projects, required.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in an IT project leadership role with specific emphasis on IT governance functions and working within a PMO framework, required.
• Ability to lead and manage under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty. Proven organizational skills in working across organizational boundaries and reporting lines
• Ability to work in a matrix environment as required.
• Demonstrated discipline, analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and attention to details.

Relocation Package Available Yes

EEO Information Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.