• Pipeline-to-deployment planning:

  • Connect the pre-sale pipeline to deployment planning so expected opportunities, timing, complexity, readiness, and dependencies are incorporated early into plans.
  • Establish clear intake, prioritization, and handoff processes.
  • Translate pipeline expectations into realistic deployment scenarios, resource allocation, target launch dates, sequencing recommendations, and contingency plans.

• Resource and capacity management:

  • Lead ongoing capacity-versus-demand planning across the portfolio and recommend resource allocation across active and expected deployments.
  • Identify required roles and skills, capacity constraints, bottlenecks, and competing priorities early enough to protect delivery commitments.
  • Facilitate allocation and sequencing decisions, track approved staffing plans, raise resource risks early, and escalate unresolved gaps with clear options and business impacts.

• Governance, controls, and visibility:

  • Design and lead a practical review cadence that includes portfolio reviews, deployment health reviews, risk and dependency reviews, executive escalations, and post-implementation reviews.
  • Own the deployment management framework in Monday.com, including board structure, workflow standards, status definitions, required fields, milestones, dependencies, automations, data quality, and governance.
  • Establish concise executive KPIs and dashboards covering schedule confidence, milestone performance, quality, readiness, risks, decisions, capacity, adoption, and client outcomes. Use approved AI tools to improve reporting, action tracking, and follow-through.

• Execution quality and continuous improvement:

  • Drive consistent deployment planning and execution across scope, success measures, workstreams, client responsibilities, change control, communications, decision logs, quality assurance, and recovery plans.
  • Develop reusable playbooks, templates, checklists, and lessons learned that improve speed, predictability, quality, scalability, and the client experience.
  • Build a strong delivery culture centered on accountability, transparency, proactive problem solving, and continuous improvement informed by portfolio data, client feedback, client usage, and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in client delivery, program management, portfolio management, implementation, or a related discipline, including leadership of complex, multi-workstream technology or analytics deployments.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex client deployments on schedule and with strong quality outcomes across multiple products, clients, or geographies.
• Experience connecting pre-sale pipeline management with deployment planning, including demand forecasting, readiness assessment, resource planning, prioritization, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Advanced expertise in Monday.com or a comparable work management platform, including workflow design, board architecture, automations, dashboards, reporting, permissions, and data governance.
• Strong command of program and portfolio fundamentals, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, capacity planning, resource allocation, risks, issues, decisions, quality controls, change control, and benefits realization.
• Proven ability to create executive KPIs and dashboards that translate complex portfolio data into clear decisions, actions, and escalation priorities.
• Strong client leadership and executive presence, with the ability to communicate delivery status, risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decisions clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven success leading through influence in a matrixed, global environment, creating structure in ambiguity, and aligning teams with different priorities around shared delivery outcomes.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools, such as Claude or Microsoft Copilot. Experience in AI, SaaS, data, analytics, market research, CPG, retail, or technology-enabled professional services is preferred.
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution is required. An advanced degree or a PMP, PgMP, Agile, Lean, or comparable certification is preferred.

Circana Behaviors

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect and integrity
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone

Location

This position can be located in the following area(s): Remote