Position Purpose:

The Product Orchestration team is the hub of interaction across product teams and business stakeholders. They facilitate development work across chains of teams, often driving discussions and cross-portfolio sessions. The Sr. Manager of Product Orchestration leads a program team of product orchestrators who leverage their understanding of product and agile practices to coordinate and elevate teams to enable delivery in the product model.

Product orchestrators help define actions that need to be taken, understand what went well/didn’t go well in previous iterations (sets of work), and guides corrective/iterative action across impacted teams to constantly improve how we work. The product orchestrator also helps with stakeholder involvement/engagement. This process improves overtime and should be seen as a more entrepreneurial and agile way of working than traditional program management.

Key Responsibilities:

• 15% – Change Management – Drives change through communication of vision and objectives to gain organizational buy in. Leads training and best practices within the product and support organization to ensure all teams are operating in an effective and efficient manner. Prioritizes and integrates changes into normal business practice and develops support structures to ensure sustainability.  Promotes a culture of agility and learning across all teams.
• 10% – Design & Optimize Processes – Design and optimize practical, realistic processes to enable repeatable, scalable communication and change management across different product teams at The Home Depot.
• 15% – Integrate Dependencies Across Workstreams – Navigates a large interdependent network and aligns complex partner ecosystems to achieve strategic value.  Acts as the integrator across the range of program contributors including internal groups, vendors, IT and third-party software providers by identifying and managing dependencies across disparate workstreams and mitigating overall risk to the program success.
• 30% – People Leadership – Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports; Attracts, retains, and develops top talent. 
• 30% – Strategic Analysis – Identifies business strategies and objectives based on thorough understanding of the business; performs project risk assessments as well sequencing of dependencies; identifies key business risks and opportunities; analyzes and communicates results.  Ensures teams and partners are aligned to enterprise strategic initiatives and prioritization. Ensures leaders and teams have necessary (shared) context of the problems they are solving.
   

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to the Sr. Director, IX
• This Position has 4-6 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
   

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree preferred
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to lead and manage cross functionally
• Ability to negotiate, handle complaints, settle disputes, and resolve grievances with both internal and external customers
• Experience managing alignment across projects in an enterprise environment
   

Minimum Education:

• Minimal or no educational requirement for this job.
   

Preferred Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
   

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8
   

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• No previous leadership experience
   

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• No previous leadership experience

Certifications:

• None
   

Competencies:

• Decision Quality
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Ensures Accountability
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Develops Talent
• Drives Results
• Manages Conflict