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# Manager, Tech - Platform Transformation

- **Company:** Kraft Heinz Company
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, DevOps, Low-code
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=82bf1445af7d4dee

## About the Role

* 5+ years of project management experience

 * Proven, hands-on Agile & Waterfall project management experience

 * Proven experience managing a portfolio of projects with total annual spend of >$3M

 * Requirements analysis, definition & mapping

 * Solution and process design

 * Management, tracking and reporting of individual project budgets > $1Millon

 * Understanding of Testing, DevOps and Low-code platforms

 * Experience of working in diverse global teams and as part of large matrix teams

 * Knowledge or experience gained from within the CPG industry would be an advantage

## Description

* The Platform Transformation Lead will work to identify, prioritize, implement and establish new transformational capabilities within the Product Platforms & Engineering organizations remit.

 * The Product Platforms & Engineering organization aim to "make it easy for anyone to build digital products" and, as part of our journey has a roadmap of new and transformational capabilities to introduce including; digital testing platforms; modern DevOps capabilities, and AI enabled low-code development.

 * The Platform Transformation Lead will manage a small portfolio of projects (2 to 10) that rapidly define an opportunity area, identify a range of approaches and solutions, drive alignment & funding to the establishment of POC / Pilot capabilities and then implement, monitor and measure before either recommending that they are scaled or terminated.

 * The Platform Transformation Lead will partner with Platform Managers, Platform Architects, Enterprise Architects and the platforms customers to identify a roadmap of transformational new capabilities that are aligned to the organization's mission and will work concurrently on bringing a small number of the biggest opportunities to life.

 * This role is a combination of strategy (20% to 30%) & execution (70% to 80%) including strategic portfolio prioritization, solution design & fit and stakeholder alignment along with detailed project execution.

 * This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week onsite at our Amsterdam office.

What's on the menu?

 * Build and maintain a roadmap of transformational opportunities

 * Identify and align project success criteria

 * Identify sponsorship and funding streams, complete project demand, funding and approval processes

 * Project manage the delivery of transformational capabilities across the Product Platforms & Engineering team via small matrix-managed delivery teams

 * Establish pilot / POC capabilities with clear & measurable success criteria that align to the organization's mission

 * Own the decision-making process to scale or terminate pilots & POCs

 * Define a handover mechanism to longer term owners of established capabilities

 * Monitor the technology market and operational landscape to stay abreast of the latest trends to understand emerging opportunity areas