Senior Manager, Launch, Global Value Stream (US)

SENIOR MANAGER, LAUNCH, GLOBAL VALUE STREAM (US) ABOUT THE ROLE: WHAT’S IN THE BOX The Senior Manager, Launch is a highly collaborative leadership role responsible for planning and delivering complex facility launches, expansions, network changes, and operational transitions across our North American network. As the central point of coordination for launch activities, you will bring together cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into clear plans, align stakeholders around key milestones and dependencies, anticipate risks, and ensure teams are prepared for a successful Day 1 and beyond. This role sits at the intersection of Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Safety, Quality, Procurement, Finance, People, and other business functions. You will create structure around complex initiatives, establish clear ownership and accountability, facilitate decision-making, and keep multiple workstreams moving toward a common goal. Success in this role requires strong program leadership, planning, stakeholder management, communication, and operational problem-solving skills. You should be comfortable working in physical operating environments and partnering with technical and facilities teams, but you do not need to be a construction specialist. The ideal candidate has experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution, supply chain, operations, engineering, or similarly fast-paced environments and knows how to move teams from strategy and planning through execution, readiness, stabilization, and handoff. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Lead end-to-end planning and execution of facility launches, expansions, operational transitions, network changes, and other complex initiatives across North America. • Develop integrated launch plans that connect individual functional workstreams into a clear roadmap with defined milestones, dependencies, ownership, and decision points. • Serve as the central point of coordination across Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Safety, Quality, Procurement, Finance, People, Technology, and other functional partners. • Establish launch governance and operating rhythms that create visibility, accountability, timely decision-making, and alignment across teams. • Facilitate cross-functional planning sessions, launch reviews, working meetings, and executive updates, ensuring teams remain aligned on priorities, risks, decisions, and next steps. • Translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and help functional teams understand how their individual deliverables contribute to overall launch success. • Identify cross-functional dependencies and potential risks early, partnering with workstream owners to develop practical mitigation and contingency plans. • Track key milestones, deliverables, budgets, risks, decisions, and readiness indicators throughout the project lifecycle. • Partner with Facilities, Engineering, Construction, vendors, and other technical stakeholders to ensure physical infrastructure and equipment workstreams remain aligned with the broader launch plan. • Coordinate operational readiness across processes, systems, equipment, staffing, training, documentation, safety, quality, and facility requirements. • Develop clear, concise, data-driven communications for senior leadership that highlight progress, decisions required, risks, and overall launch health. • Create clarity in ambiguous or rapidly changing situations by establishing priorities, defining ownership, and helping teams move from problem identification to resolution. • Lead readiness assessments prior to launch and ensure critical gaps are identified, assigned, and resolved. • Support launch execution and post-launch stabilization, coordinating issue resolution and ens