Manager, Contract Sales and New Business Development - Chicago Illinois

Company: Sysco
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posted On: 04/15/2025

Position Summary:Manage the expansive scope, schedule, budget, and quality of the Finance Technology applications. -Drive delivery within the team to anticipate and address change requests, issues management, risk management, and status reporting. Create long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones, adhering to deadlines, and allocating resources. Facilitate effective decisions when presented multiple options for how to progress with the project. Manage a medium to large number of dependencies across project tasks. - Responsible for the sequencing and delivery targets defined for the project. -Essential Functions:

• Act as liaison between the Business and Sysco Technology.
• Own all aspects of projects, to deliver approved business functionality to Sysco.
• Define and lead project scope, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risk, and budget.
• Partner with all stakeholders and dependent projects to develop detailed project schedules. Drive and run meetings with key stakeholders.
• Lead and execute approved projects through the lifecycle, including change requests, issue management, risk management, and status reporting.
• Research cost-effective alternatives to enhance cost efficiency while delivering quality results.
• Manages remediation of risks and issues. Evaluates project impact of requests for scope change.
• Develop and deliver presentations.
• Apply proven techniques and methodologies to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Drives communications between stakeholders of dependent projects and with Sysco management.
• Other duties as assigned.QUALIFICATIONS:Education and / or Experience:
  • Minimum of 5+ years' sales experience in a business-to-business professional sales environment, and 3 or more years' with a proven track record of new business development or equivalent experience
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent educational level
  • High school diploma or equivalent requiredMinimum Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
    • 4+ years of experience in finance applications supporting general ledger, accounts receivable or accounts payable.
    • Subject matter expert in one of four functional areas, production, warehouse, merchandising or finance.
    • Experience in structured frameworks, methodologies and operating models in area of expertise. (Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies preferred)
    • Experience influencing, presenting to or facilitating group collaboration of all sizes and management levels.
    • Ability to effectively communicate to various levels of management.Preferred Qualifications:
      • Functional level experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Jira, or Smartsheet.
      • Demonstrated understanding of project financials and measure of performance.
      • Experience presenting to or facilitating group training of all sizes and management levels. More...

            

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