What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Manager IT Application Delivery position at Sargento?
The Senior Manager, IT Application Delivery plays a critical role in turning business strategy into reliable, scalable technology solutions. You’ll lead agile teams delivering high‑impact application outcomes across a complex portfolio, ensuring systems are secure, resilient, and aligned to business goals. As a trusted partner to business and IT leaders, you’ll balance delivery trade‑offs, guide priorities, and operate with a high degree of autonomy while sharing accountability for results. You’ll oversee the evolution of core application platforms, including SAP and integrated solutions, lead a Solution Architect, and translate strategy into actionable delivery and operational plans—while upholding strong governance and change standards.
Your Passion. Our Culture.
At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you’re ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.
Benefits That Set Us Apart.
Leadership, Strategy & Portfolio Ownership
You may directly lead professional staff, including a Solution Architect, with responsibilities spanning hiring, coaching, performance management, development planning, and corrective action.
Your Education And Experience.
Professional Knowledge & Competencies
With over 2,400 employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world’s first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.
To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en.
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Your Passion. Our Culture.
At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you’re ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.
Benefits That Set Us Apart.
- Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Remote ½ day Fridays
- Onsite Health & Wellness Center
- Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation
- Relocation Assistance
- Tuition Assistance
- Access to Employee Store
Leadership, Strategy & Portfolio Ownership
- Own and lead application delivery across a broad, complex portfolio—aligning execution tightly with business and IT strategy.
- Turn strategy into clear, actionable delivery and operational plans that drive measurable outcomes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT leaders, guiding priorities, sequencing work, and navigating trade offs with confidence.
- Lead high performing agile delivery teams with a focus on outcomes, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
- Share accountability for results while balancing delivery commitments, risk, and operational health.
- Ensure consistent, reliable operations across applications—including availability, performance, security, and support.
- Proactively identify systemic challenges and resolve issues before they escalate beyond your scope.
- Provide leadership across SAP and integrated enterprise platforms, protecting long term investments while meeting evolving business needs.
- Stay ahead of platform roadmaps and upgrades, guiding thoughtful, well planned evolution.
- Evaluate changes through the lens of risk, resilience, and long term impact.
- Lead and support the Solution Architect, ensuring architectural decisions enable delivery success and align with enterprise standards.
- Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented and consistently applied.
- Partner with enterprise architecture leaders on cross domain dependencies and exceptions.
- Balance delivery speed with smart risk management across operational and strategic decisions.
- Ensure adherence to governance, security, compliance, and recoverability standards.
- Contribute to resource planning and budget management across your portfolio.
- Guide vendor performance to ensure service delivery supports business outcomes.
- Develop talent beyond today’s needs—building capability, leadership readiness, and continuity.
- Foster a culture of accountability, growth, and strong leadership behaviors.
- Support development planning aligned to organizational values and future needs.
You may directly lead professional staff, including a Solution Architect, with responsibilities spanning hiring, coaching, performance management, development planning, and corrective action.
Your Education And Experience.
Professional Knowledge & Competencies
- Strong communication and influence skills with both technical and non technical audiences.
- Broad understanding of enterprise application delivery and operational excellence.
- Sound judgment in complex decision making, balancing outcomes and risk.
- Experience leading teams in agile delivery environments.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 7 years of IT and business experience, including 5 years delivering enterprise application solutions (ERP/SAP strongly preferred).
- 5 years leading teams and influencing senior leaders and key stakeholders.
- Experience managing resources across multiple initiatives; SAFe experience is a plus.
With over 2,400 employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world’s first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.
To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.