84.51

Lead Agile Delivery- Merchandising Capabilities (P3081) - Cincinnati

84.51 • $125K — $180K *
Cincinnati, OH 45238In-Person
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 6 years of experience in software or data development delivery roles.
  • Experience adapting delivery frameworks for AI-focused environments.
  • Practical use of AI tools in a work setting is preferred.
  • Ability to manage multiple teams while aligning product and program needs.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with technical and product leaders.
  • High emotional intelligence to build trust and influence outcomes.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and flexible in approach to processes.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Enable delivery across 4+ cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and data science.
  • Coach teams on Agile practices to enhance flow, quality, and effectiveness.
  • Create visibility into project health, capacity, and risks.
  • Proactively manage dependencies and organizational bottlenecks for alignment.
  • Facilitate annual planning and portfolio execution processes with leadership.
  • Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and milestones.
  • Maintain important portfolio artifacts like roadmaps and execution trackers.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple options.
  • 401(k) plan with Roth option and company matching.
  • Generous paid time off policy including 5 weeks vacation and multiple paid wellness days.
  • Supportive paid leave for maternity, paternity, and family care situations.
  • Health Savings Account contributions available for eligible members.
Full Job Description
The Merchandising Capabilities team uses data science, technology, and AI to help Kroger merchants make better, faster decisions across pricing, promotions, assortment, and space optimization. Our portfolio spans multiple products, platforms, and cross-functional teams working together to deliver capabilities that shape how merchandising decisions are made across the enterprise.

As our teams increasingly leverage AI-enabled planning, documentation, and delivery practices, we have an opportunity to further elevate how we execute across the portfolio. We are looking for a leader who can strengthen delivery excellence across multiple teams while helping the organization translate strategic priorities into successful outcomes.

As Lead Agile Delivery, you will serve as both a delivery leader and a strategic execution partner for the Merchandising Capabilities portfolio.

You will support multiple cross-functional product, engineering, and data science teams while helping leadership drive alignment, execution, and organizational effectiveness across a complex portfolio of initiatives. This role is accountable for delivery excellence, enabling teams and leaders to execute with clarity, transparency, and focus.

While Product leaders define strategy, priorities, and outcomes, this role ensures the organization has the operating mechanisms, delivery discipline, visibility, and coordination required to successfully execute against those priorities.

Success in this role requires equal strength in Agile delivery leadership, cross-functional influence, strategic planning, and operational execution. You will operate comfortably at both the team and portfolio level, coaching product teams on empowered team practices that help them connect discovery, delivery, decisions, and measurement to meaningful outcomes while improving efficiency across how work gets planned and executed.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Enable successful delivery across 4+ cross-functional product, engineering, and data science teams.
  • Establish, evolve, and coach Agile ways of working and empowered product team practices that improve flow, predictability, quality, outcome orientation, and team effectiveness.
  • Create visibility into delivery health, capacity, dependencies, risks, and progress against commitments.
  • Drive cross-team alignment by proactively managing dependencies, execution risks, and organizational bottlenecks.
  • Partner with leadership to facilitate annual planning, quarterly planning, OKRs, and portfolio execution processes.
  • Translate strategic priorities into executable plans, governance mechanisms, operating rhythms, and measurable milestones.
  • Maintain portfolio artifacts including roadmaps, strategic plans, decision logs, and execution tracking.
  • Monitor progress against strategic initiatives, surfacing risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and execution considerations.
  • Serve as a trusted operating partner to the leadership team, helping turn decisions into action and outcomes.
  • Continuously improve organizational effectiveness through data-driven insights, modern delivery practices, and AI-enabled ways of working.


QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:
  • At least 6 years of experience working with software or data development teams in a delivery, scrum master, or agile leadership capacity.
  • Demonstrated willingness and ability to adapt or reinvent delivery frameworks to meet the demands of fast-moving, AI-adjacent environments.
  • Demonstrated early adoption and practical use of AI tooling in a professional setting.
  • Proven ability to operate across multiple teams sharing a broader context, balancing product team needs with program-level alignment.
  • Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills - particularly with technical leads and product managers.
  • High emotional intelligence; ability to build trust, influence without authority, and drive toward shared understanding.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving environments; does not rely on rigid process as a crutch.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


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Pay Transparency and Benefits
  • The stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest. Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.
  • Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates:
    • Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
    • Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
    • Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.


Base Pay Range

$125,000-$180,000 USD

About 84.51

84.51° is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Co. and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company was founded in 2015 and provides data analytics and customer insights to Kroger and other consumer-packaged goods companies. The name 84.51° refers to the longitude of the company's headquarters in Cincinnati.
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Industry
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