Delivery Lead - IT Planning & Execution

Lineage • Novi, MI

2d • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 improvement – Ability to understand organizational processes and be able to design and implement optimizations.
• 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).
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees