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Kraft Heinz Company

Sr. Program Manager, Elevation

Chicago, IL · On-site

$119K - $120K/yr

Provide cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, R&D, EHS ... Program Management Standards, Tools * Work with PMO and functional partners to drive continuous ...

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Minitab

Cybersecurity Program Manager

Chicago, IL

$114K - $154K/yr

... program, including policy development, risk management, compliance oversight, audit coordination ... Maintain alignment with privacy, legal, HR, operational, and reporting obligations * Support ...

Minitab

Cybersecurity Program Manager

Chicago, IL · On-site

$114K - $154K/yr

... program, including policy development, risk management, compliance oversight, audit coordination ... Maintain alignment with privacy, legal, HR, operational, and reporting obligations * Support ...

Minitab

Cybersecurity Program Manager

Chicago, IL · On-site

$114K - $154K/yr

... program, including policy development, risk management, compliance oversight, audit coordination ... Maintain alignment with privacy, legal, HR, operational, and reporting obligations * Support ...

Mercor

Legal Tech Specialist - AI Trainer

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$1.7K - $2.1K/wk

Familiarity with legal intake, knowledge management, and enterprise-wide legal program design. * Day-to-day use of Relativity , Icertis , HotDocs / Contract Express , and Clio / MyCase . * Strong ...

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How much do legal program manager jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 7, 2026, the average yearly pay for legal program manager in Illinois is $85,044.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $64,400.00 and $98,400.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a legal program manager?

A Legal Program Manager is a professional responsible for overseeing and coordinating legal projects and initiatives within an organization. They work closely with legal teams, stakeholders, and other departments to ensure that legal programs are executed efficiently, comply with regulations, and meet organizational goals. Their duties often include managing timelines, budgets, resources, and communication, as well as implementing processes to improve legal operations. Legal Program Managers play a crucial role in bridging the gap between legal and business functions, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within scope.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a legal program manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Legal Program Manager, you need expertise in legal project management, compliance, and risk assessment, often supported by a law degree or relevant certification (such as PMP or Lean Six Sigma). Familiarity with legal management software, contract management systems, and workflow automation tools is typically required. Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills enable effective collaboration across legal and business teams. These skills and qualities are crucial for ensuring legal projects are executed efficiently, within scope, and in compliance with regulatory standards.

What is the difference between Legal Program Manager vs Legal Counsel?

AspectLegal Program ManagerLegal Counsel
Primary RoleOversees legal programs, manages compliance projects, and coordinates legal initiativesProvides legal advice, drafts legal documents, and represents clients or the organization in legal matters
Required CredentialsJuris Doctor (JD), project management experience, legal certifications often preferredJuris Doctor (JD), bar admission, legal certifications
Work EnvironmentCross-functional teams, project-based settings, corporate or legal departmentsLaw firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies

Legal Program Managers focus on managing legal projects and ensuring compliance across organizations, while Legal Counsel provides direct legal advice and representation. Both roles require a JD and legal certifications, but their daily responsibilities and work environments differ significantly.

What are some common challenges faced by legal program managers in cross-functional projects?

Legal Program Managers often work on projects that require coordination between legal, compliance, business, and technical teams. A key challenge is translating complex legal requirements into actionable steps for non-legal stakeholders while ensuring deadlines and regulatory standards are met. Balancing multiple priorities, managing stakeholder expectations, and adapting to changing regulations are also common hurdles. Strong communication and project management skills are essential to navigate these complexities and drive successful outcomes.
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Infographic showing various Legal Program Manager job openings in Illinois as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 81% Full Time, 14% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 96% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 3% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $85,044 per year, or $40.9 per hour.

Sr. Program Manager, Elevation

Kraft Heinz Company

Chicago, IL • On-site

$119K - $120K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 3 days ago

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Kraft Heinz rating

7.0

Company rating: 7.0 out of 10

Based on 122 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

230th of 435 rated food and drinks producers

Job description

The Senior Manager, Strategic Programs is responsible for defining program requirements, setting objectives, developing integrated project plans, and leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives that support business growth, infrastructure modernization, operational excellence, and network optimization objectives. This role serves as the overall program leader for assigned initiatives and is accountable for technical and program feasibility, governance, workstream integration, executive reporting, risk management, stakeholder alignment, process improvement, and successful delivery of program objectives.Job Description
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
Program & Project Management:
  • Lead complex capital programs from requirements definition and conceptual design through execution, commissioning, vertical startup, and handover.
  • Define program objectives, scope, budgets, schedules, success measures, and execution plans aligned to approved business cases.
  • Support Capital Appropriation Request submissions and serve as the program advocate to capital investment committees.
  • Develop integrated program roadmaps that sequence workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, and key decision points.
  • Provide technical guidance to influence design decisions, resolve technical challenges, and ensure feasible, scalable, compliant solutions.
  • Establish the program structure, resource model, technical capabilities, and external partner support needed to deliver scope, schedule, and budget commitments.
  • Provide cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, R&D, EHS, FSQ, Procurement, and external partners.
  • Align sponsors, functional leaders, and portfolio governance teams on program scope, trade-offs, priorities, risks, value realization, and escalation needs.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies, decision interlocks, critical path constraints, and prioritization conflicts across workstreams, sites, suppliers, and partners.
  • Establish governance cadence, including workstream reviews, leadership updates, decision forums, action tracking, escalation pathways, and decision records.
  • Develop and manage risk, issue, assumption, and dependency processes to identify, monitor, mitigate, and escalate factors that may affect delivery.
  • Communicate program health, milestones, budget, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required leadership actions through clear, decision-oriented reporting.
  • Lead operational readiness, change adoption, training coordination, readiness criteria, and sustained ownership planning with site and functional teams.
  • Ensure safety, environmental, compliance, and operational requirements are embedded from design through operational verification and value realization.

Program Management Standards, Tools
  • Work with PMO and functional partners to drive continuous improvement of capital project management activities, workflows, tools, methodologies, and governance practices across KHC entities to improve efficiency, consistency, scalability, and execution quality.
  • Develop and share best practices, reporting standards, reusable program artifacts, templates, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track program progress, financial performance, schedule performance, risk, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Lead post-implementation reviews and lessons learned activities to capture insights, identify improvement opportunities, and incorporate learnings into future program standards, tools, governance practices, and execution playbooks.

Expected Experience & Required Skills
Instructions: List the candidate's proven experiences and specific skills that are required to perform the role. This section should:
  • Be consistent across the job posting, interview, assessments, and the job itself
  • Include specific, qualitative proven experiences versus generic years of experience
  • Include both "hard" and "soft" skills
  • Include skills that are observable, measurable, and assessable (speaking to their criticality to the role and business)
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited engineering school or related field is required.
  • 6+ years experience in engineering, project management, program management, and/or technical leadership across multiple sites. Prior experience in an in-plant technical role such as Operations, Maintenance, or Plant Engineering is preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in project and program management execution, including requirements definition, scope, schedule, budget, governance, reporting, risk, dependency, resource planning, execution, monitoring/control, closeout, roadmap development, cross-workstream dependency management, and decision cadence; familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other iterative delivery methods is beneficial where applicable.
  • Demonstrated leadership, communication, influence, critical thinking, problem-solving, relationship-building, executive communication, and business acumen to lead complex cross-functional programs, align technical decisions with stakeholder and business needs, and support operational readiness, change adoption, benefits realization, and sustained value delivery.

Work Environment & Schedule
This position is considered a Field based environment; role requires frequent travel to customer locations, stores, manufacturing facilities, etc. Additionally, this role requires willingness to travel to locations outside of home state for extended periods (up to 50%) as needed and the demonstrated ability to work remotely with little supervision. Ability to work to flexible schedule including days, afternoons, nights and overtime as needed.
Physical Requirements
Physical demands include but not limited to:
  • This role requires inspection of sites to detect safety concerns. Occasional need to scale heights and traversal of workplace.
  • Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy environment.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities
Program & Project Management:
  • Lead complex capital programs from requirements definition and conceptual design through execution, commissioning, vertical startup, and handover.
  • Define program objectives, scope, budgets, schedules, success measures, and execution plans aligned to approved business cases.
  • Support Capital Appropriation Request submissions and serve as the program advocate to capital investment committees.
  • Develop integrated program roadmaps that sequence workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, and key decision points.
  • Provide technical guidance to influence design decisions, resolve technical challenges, and ensure feasible, scalable, compliant solutions.
  • Establish the program structure, resource model, technical capabilities, and external partner support needed to deliver scope, schedule, and budget commitments.
  • Provide cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, R&D, EHS, FSQ, Procurement, and external partners.
  • Align sponsors, functional leaders, and portfolio governance teams on program scope, trade-offs, priorities, risks, value realization, and escalation needs.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies, decision interlocks, critical path constraints, and prioritization conflicts across workstreams, sites, suppliers, and partners.
  • Establish governance cadence, including workstream reviews, leadership updates, decision forums, action tracking, escalation pathways, and decision records.
  • Develop and manage risk, issue, assumption, and dependency processes to identify, monitor, mitigate, and escalate factors that may affect delivery.
  • Communicate program health, milestones, budget, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required leadership actions through clear, decision-oriented reporting.
  • Lead operational readiness, change adoption, training coordination, readiness criteria, and sustained ownership planning with site and functional teams.
  • Ensure safety, environmental, compliance, and operational requirements are embedded from design through operational verification and value realization.

Program Management Standards, Tools
  • Work with PMO and functional partners to drive continuous improvement of capital project management activities, workflows, tools, methodologies, and governance practices across KHC entities to improve efficiency, consistency, scalability, and execution quality.
  • Develop and share best practices, reporting standards, reusable program artifacts, templates, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track program progress, financial performance, schedule performance, risk, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Lead post-implementation reviews and lessons learned activities to capture insights, identify improvement opportunities, and incorporate learnings into future program standards, tools, governance practices, and execution playbooks.

Expected Experience & Required Skills
  • Be consistent across the job posting, interview, assessments, and the job itself
  • Include specific, qualitative proven experiences versus generic years of experience
  • Include both "hard" and "soft" skills
  • Include skills that are observable, measurable, and assessable (speaking to their criticality to the role and business)
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited engineering school or related field is required.
  • 6+ years experience in engineering, project management, program management, and/or technical leadership across multiple sites. Prior experience in an in-plant technical role such as Operations, Maintenance, or Plant Engineering is preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in project and program management execution, including requirements definition, scope, schedule, budget, governance, reporting, risk, dependency, resource planning, execution, monitoring/control, closeout, roadmap development, cross-workstream dependency management, and decision cadence; familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other iterative delivery methods is beneficial where applicable.
  • Demonstrated leadership, communication, influence, critical thinking, problem-solving, relationship-building, executive communication, and business acumen to lead complex cross-functional programs, align technical decisions with stakeholder and business needs, and support operational readiness, change adoption, benefits realization, and sustained value delivery.

Work Environment & Schedule
This position is considered a Field based environment; role requires frequent travel to customer locations, stores, manufacturing facilities, etc. Additionally, this role requires willingness to travel to locations outside of home state for extended periods (up to 50%) as needed and the demonstrated ability to work remotely with little supervision. Ability to work to flexible schedule including days, afternoons, nights and overtime as needed.
Physical Requirements
Physical demands include but not limited to:
  • This role requires inspection of sites to detect safety concerns. Occasional need to scale heights and traversal of workplace.
  • Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy environment.

Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz' strategy and values.
New Hire Base Salary Range:
$120,800.00 - $151,000.00
Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors
Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family's needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
You'll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:
  • Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
  • Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
  • Emotional - Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
  • Financial - 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

Location(s)
Chicago/Aon Center
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact NAZTAOps@kraftheinz.com for assistance.

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