Job Details Summary:
The Data & AI Product Delivery Manager, Senior is the execution leader for one or more cross-functional Data & AI product teams and reports to the Senior Director Data & AI Product Operations. This role ensures delivery flow, risk management, and outcome-aligned execution. The Delivery Manager ensures utilization of the product operating model, so that the product development process flows efficiently from discovery through delivery. By proactively aligning teams and resources, the Delivery Manager helps translate Data & AI product management's strategic priorities into actionable plans, enabling the team to deliver targeted business value. This role ensures that every step of execution is purposefully connected to the outcomes identified by product management-so the right problems are solved, the right way, at the right time, for maximum impact.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Leads end-to-end delivery execution and ensures predictable, high-quality delivery.
- Utilizes lean, agile, and flow-based practices to improve throughput and reduce cycle time.
- Coordinates planning, agile ceremonies, discovery-to-delivery handoffs, sprint cadence, and retrospectives.
- Collaborates with product team to create and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases that articulate customer value and expected outcomes.
- Holds product team members accountable for deliverables; identifies product risks, dependencies, and constraints; and ensures resolution.
- Coordinates with Commercialization and broader Enterprise Data, Analytics, and AI teams to ensure product delivery timelines are met.
- Partners with product team to prioritize work in alignment with strategy, outcomes, value, and delivery commitments.
- Supports product leadership in ensuring products meet security, privacy, audit, and data governance requirements.
- Supports Product Managers by facilitating discovery sessions, cross-functional workshops, and ongoing stakeholder communications.
- Supports product team in dual-track discovery and early validation of assumptions.
- Coordinates the logistics of product and feature release management processes.
- Tracks product team progress on goals, OKRs, and success indicators.
- Provides outcome-focused reporting using delivery metrics and analytics.
- Fosters team culture, psychological safety, and high performance.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
Experience & Educational Qualifications: - 3+ years in delivery management, program management, agile leadership, or similar roles within data/analytics.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience required.
- Proven success delivering complex data products.
- Experience with tools such as ADO, Jira, Confluence, and other agile project management and collaboration tools is highly desirable.
Minimum Skills, Knowledge & Ability Requirements: - Strong agile, lean, and flow-based delivery expertise.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Spanish preferred.
- Familiarity with data engineering, cloud platforms, and AI delivery.
- Knowledge of the Product Operating Model, bias for action, and a passion to build products customers love that work for the business.
What Cencora offersWe provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Salary Range*$76,200 - 119,460
*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.
