Associate Delivery Manager

Associate Delivery Manager

Hybrid or Fully on-site: Hybrid

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for an Associate Delivery Manager. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.

Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

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  • Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
  
  
  • Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
  
  
  • Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably
  
  
  
  

Overview:

We are looking for an Associate Delivery Manager to join the Product Delivery team within the Innovation, Architecture & Product Development group, part of the Business Technology (BT) organization.

The Associate Delivery Manager contributes to product delivery for a defined set of products or initiatives within a business domain. This role owns and handles the planning, coordination, and execution of product delivery activities in close partnership with Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Domain BT Partners, and Product Delivery teams.

The Associate Delivery Manager plays a key role in ensuring alignment, transparency, and execution discipline, while developing delivery management expertise. The role reports to a Senior Product Delivery Manager or Product Delivery Manager within the BT Product Delivery organization.

Essential Functions:

Main Accountabilities

• Collaborates with Product Owners (PO), Business Technology Partners and Product Delivery Managers to understand vision; collaborates on building realistic roadmaps and timelines for products delivery.


• Collaborates closely with Product Delivery teams, including analysts, developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and operations, in order to ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.


• Ensures there is common understanding between Product Owner and Product Delivery team when it comes to implementing requirements.


• Ensures availability of resources required to deliver products within committed timeline


• Ensures alignment of products with company’s architecture and technology guidelines/standards


• Monitors completeness and validity of product delivery process, escalates discovered inefficiencies.


• Monitors and escalates issues related to dependences between teams/groups involved in product delivery, keeping alignment with timelines, requirements and objectives


• Documents and mitigates potential delivery risks identified in the process


• Closely tracks and documents execution process, key decisions and delivery of increments, supports PO in reporting updates to business and BT


• Interface with stakeholders and CoEs, representing product needs, objectives and progress.


• Monitors capacity and performance of Product Delivery teams, manage gaps related to capacity or skillset


• Oversees and manages delivery with SOW vendors and MSPs within entrusted products


• Manages alignment between technology, business and product to assure successful and valuable outcomes


• Answers incoming questions about the products within entrusted scope.

Impact/Dimensions:

• Directly impacts customer satisfaction through successful product delivery.


• Oversees and Manages project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.


• Plays impactful role in successful product implementations.


• Monitors and escalates risks, outlines and aligns mitigation plans


• Contributes to RFP process with product delivery perspective and coordinates inputs from relevant CoEs

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• On-time project completion rate.


• Stakeholder satisfaction scores.


• Project budget adherence.


• Product organization alignment level.

Major Opportunities and Decisions:

• Identifying and evaluating opportunities to improve products/services or processes using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues.


• Solving difficult, non-routine delivery problems that may require taking a new perspective on existing solutions and performing detailed analysis.

• Resolving conflicts and facilitating effective cooperation between teams and CoEs.


• Identifying and mitigating potential risks to project success.

• Contributing to decisions regarding resource allocation and project sequencing to optimize delivery timelines and maintain execution discipline.

Management/Leadership:

• Demonstrates leadership and independence in managing projects and coordinating cross-functional teams.


• Effectively communicates project status, risks, and opportunities within Product Delivery team.


• Builds strong relationships with project stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring their needs are met.


• Contributes to Statement of Work execution with 3rd-party vendors

Key Relationships, Stakeholders & Interfaces (External & Internal):

• Clients


• Project Management Teams


• Engineering Teams


• Product Teams & Stakeholders


• CoE leadership

Knowledge and Technical Competencies:

• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and agile principles.


• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.


• Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make informed decisions.


• Proven ability to work independently and prioritize work effectively.


• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically.


• Demonstrated ability to establish clear milestones and deliver against committed timeline


• Demonstrated ability to develop business and technical knowledge and drive issue resolution


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, experience in work in tech environment


• Belief in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust


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  Fluent written and spoken English
  
  

Minimum Requirements:

Education/Experience:

• Typically a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


• Typically 6+ years of experience in work with technology products delivery, including at least 3+ years of experience in IT project management, product delivery management, or similar.


• Demonstrated experience in managing small to medium-sized projects of moderate complexity, contributing to process improvements, and achieving expected results.

Please include a CV in English 

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At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

•    We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
•    We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
•    We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

If this sounds like you, join us!  We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge