Delivery Lead - IT Planning & Execution - Remote Eligible

Delivery Lead - It Planning & Execution

The Delivery Lead - IT Planning & Execution is a key operational and strategic role responsible for tracking and driving a set of initiatives. This individual serves as the central point of coordination across delivery teams, regional leaders, and financial planning functions. They are accountable for maintaining visibility across a number of initiatives, ensuring accurate financial forecasting, driving the completion of the initiatives, and transparent status reporting. The role operates in a cross-functional, multi-national environment, bridging IT and business domains to ensure work is properly scoped, resourced, and executed in alignment with strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery Management

• For each initiative, fully understand the project outcomes, timelines, dependencies and actively drive required teams to deliver those outcomes. Identify and communicate key milestones and value outcomes.
• Facilitate across various teams to prioritize initiative work items.
• Drive issue resolution by the identification of the appropriate team members required to resolve and facilitate to resolution.
• Establish and enforce consistent reporting cadences and templates across delivery teams to enable reliable portfolio-level aggregation.
• Serve as a trusted partner to both IT and business stakeholders, translating between technical delivery language and business outcomes.
• Navigate effectively across geographies and time zones, fostering inclusive and efficient collaboration in a multi-national operating environment.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with regional delivery leads, finance business partners, HR, procurement, and other enabling functions.

Financial Forecasting & Planning

• Partner closely with analysts to develop, maintain, and refine accurate financial forecasts across the project portfolio.
• Track actuals against forecast and budget, proactively identifying variances and working with stakeholders to develop corrective actions.
• Support the end-to-end financial lifecycle of projects, including initial estimates, milestone-based funding reviews, and final cost reconciliation.
• Provide financial inputs and narrative to support investment decisions, portfolio reviews, and planning cycles.

Portfolio Tracking & Reporting

• Own the successful delivery of a set of portfolio initiatives, ensuring accurate and up-to-date status across scope, schedule, budget, and risk dimensions.
• Identify, document, and communicate major milestones, dependencies, delivery risks in a timely and structured manner.

Intake & Demand Management (when needed)

• Manage and facilitate the intake process for new work requests across assigned teams, ensuring consistent evaluation, prioritization, and onboarding of demand.
• Work with team leads and product owners to assess capacity, size incoming work, and align new requests with existing portfolio commitments.
• Maintain visibility into the pipeline of incoming work and communicate anticipated impacts to current delivery plans and resource availability.
• Support governance forums and intake committees with structured briefings on demand trends and capacity constraints.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in a delivery, program management, or project management role within a technology or business transformation environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of concurrent projects, with accountability for status reporting and stakeholder communication.
• Direct experience in managing project financials independently or in conjunction with financial analysts or finance business partners.
• Proven track record of working in cross-functional, multi-national environments spanning IT and business domains.
• Optimizing Delivery process – Ability to understand organizational processes and be able to design and implement optimizations.

Methodology & Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of different methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Kanban).
• Ability to operate flexibly across methodology contexts and support teams using hybrid delivery approaches.
• Proficiency with portfolio and project management tooling (e.g., Jira, MS Project, MS Planner, or equivalent).

Core Competencies

• Portfolio Visibility: Maintains a clear, accurate, and current view of all projects across the portfolio, enabling confident decision-making by leadership.
• Financial Acumen: Comfortable working with financial data, building forecasts, and communicating budget performance to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Stakeholder Communication: Adapts communication style to audience — from technical delivery teams to executive sponsors — with clarity and confidence.
• Structured Problem Solving: Identifies issues early, structures options, and drives resolution across teams and geographies.
• Collaborative Leadership: Influences without authority, builds trust across functions, and fosters a delivery culture rooted in accountability and continuous improvement.
• Cultural Agility: Operates effectively across cultural and organizational boundaries in a global delivery environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Big 4 consulting experience (Accenture, PWC, Deloitte, etc)
• Experience within a large, matrixed enterprise environment with global delivery teams.
• Background in supply chain, warehousing, technology, or professional services industries.
• Familiarity with portfolio management frameworks such as OKRs, EPMO governance, or PPM tooling.

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers' requirements. Beyond that, you'll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We'll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law. Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.