Senior Manager, Product Delivery
Inver Grove Heights, MN, US, 55077-1721
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Summary
CHS has an exciting opportunity in the Information Technology group. We are looking for a Senior Product Delivery Manager to lead multiple product teams. This servant-leader role is accountable for executing the product vision and delivering against the product roadmaps (which are set and owned by our Product Owners). They will stay current on modern agile tools and product practices and optimize delivery flow across teams to foster an environment where team health and continuous improvement drive predictable, sustainable outcomes. This role is responsible for removing obstacles that impede delivery, and clear the path for the team’s immediate success, while also stepping back to influence and solve organizational-wide challenges that give rise to those barriers and does it in a way that’s collaborative, respectful, and constructive.
Responsibilities
Lead Product Execution & Delivery
- Lead multiple product teams to deliver Features/Stories against the roadmap and maintain stable team and product operations.
- Align team capacity (velocity and predictability) against milestones and manage dependencies with the Product Owner. Ensuring incremental value delivery while governing a balanced backlog flow with platform work, security risks, and technical enablers land without disrupting commitments.
- Ensure technical design decisions are made effectively by fostering the right forums, bringing in the right partners, reinforcing best practices (definition of done, standards, quality), and ensuring design and implementation standards are embedded in team workflows.
- Oversee deployments and production cutovers, publishing delivery health reports (flow/quality KPIs, trends) and communicate risk, capacity constraints, and release readiness.
- Remove systemic blockers, mitigate risks, and manage cross-team dependencies that impede delivery. Ensure effective cross product incident response and that blameless postmortems are conducted by the appropriate technical owners with clear actions and follow through, driving durable improvements.
- Oversee risk & compliance across the product teams by identifying, communicating, and resolving risks where possible. Ensure audit readiness and evidence coordination with a strive to be audit defensible.
Manage Team Health and Cultivate Agile Mindset
- Cultivate high trust, continuously improving environment, by enabling clarity of roles, effective cadences, and adaptive ways of working across teams while adhering to our technology delivery framework. Foster psychological safety and continuous learning. Directly manage Business Analysts and Software Engineers (hire, coach, manage performance) and partner with Product Owners on budgets and resourcing.
- Coach and develop Business Analysts and Software Engineers to strengthen role-specific capabilities, deepen product and technical judgment, and foster a culture of innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning. Encourage thoughtful experimentation with new practices, tools, and technologies that improve team effectiveness, delivery outcomes, product quality, and business value.
- Partner with engineers and technical stakeholders to raise the bar on modern engineering practices, including maintainability, scalability, automation, resiliency, and secure-by-design delivery.
- Foster self-managing teams that continuously improve planning, decomposition, flow, and quality through light-touch coaching and clear guardrails.
- Use delivery and reliability metrics to improve team outcomes, predictability, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- Bachelor's degree in Information technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology Management, or related field (or equivalent years of experience, education and/or training)
- 5+ years of experience leading technical team members (engineers) to include:
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams in delivering modern technology solutions, guide key technical decisions and trade-off discussions, and drive innovative problem-solving in ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated success establishing delivery milestones, managing scope, schedule, and budget, and improving team outcomes through agile and data-driven continuous improvement
- Proven ability to build an inclusive, collaborative team culture grounded in mentoring, accountability, and continuous improvement
- 3+ years of Information Technology experience in an hands-on engineering role (software development, DevOps, SRE, etc.) to include:
- Understanding of and commitment to the agile and product mindset, principles, and practices
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and change/release/incident management
Additional Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a leader of a cross functional agile software development team
- Experience as an Engineering Manager, Architect, or Senior Engineer
- Facilitated design reviews and readiness checks with architecture/security stakeholders
- Experience orchestrating cross team releases, facilitating cross functional forums, and improving delivery metrics at scale
- Advanced knowledge of software development procedures including scrum methodology
- Advanced proficiency in agile delivery tools (e.g., Azure DevOps or GitHub) and data driven dashboards
- Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs), security by design, and regulated environments
- Domain familiarity with payment processing, lending, hedging/commodities, agriculture, or energy
- Relevant certifications (Agile, Cloud, Security)
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) for both a technical and non-technical audience
Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.