Director, Enterprise Project Management

What your day could consist of:

• Establish EPMO center of excellence that aligns with the Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, quality standards and company strategy.
• Develops, tracks, and maintains project development timelines (integrated project timelines), project deliverables and milestones, including understanding and communicating inter-dependencies and critical path activities.
• Drives cross-functional planning and effective execution through the development and monitoring of fully integrated, cross-functional, project specific timelines and budgets.
• Leads the coordination of project activities and resources across the organization in a manner that maximizes efficiency and minimizes conflicts.
• Facilitates and leads team discussions on project strategies, short-term and longterm project planning, opportunities for expediting timelines, identification of resource constraints, and proactively identify complex project issues and risks, and assure appropriate escalation.
• Ensures the business achieves its business outcomes, managing change effectively, understanding the value of the projects and ensuring the appropriate level of transparency via KPI reporting and other communications.
• Implement efficiencies that meet or exceed the financial expectations established at project initiation.
• Manages the overall EPMO project portfolio.
• Monitor projects, programs and portfolio to ensure compliance with project policies and standards as well as keeping to schedules, budgets and quality expectations.
• Manage project, program and portfolio deliverables and tasks.
• Supports and develops the EPMO through assessing staffing and skill requirements, establishing professional development plans, setting goals and expectations with team members, mentoring, and giving feedback on performance.
• Hires, manages and coaches direct reports to drive optimal performance, including balancing program scope, schedule, and quality across team.
• Coordinate deliverables with project managers, analysts, market leads, et al., while supporting contractors and reporting structure.
• Reports to executive team on progress and performance of EPMO.
• Works with executive team to assess and decide on which proposals have the highest potential value, impact and strategic alignment.
• Identify project, program and portfolio priorities, address challenges and communicate project risks and opportunities.
• Works closely with and builds strong working relationships with cross-functional team members to develop a collaborative team environment.

What is needed:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project and program management, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• PMP or PJMP certification is highly desired.
• Proven record managing teams and strategic projects at the enterprise level.
• Successfully manages project deliverables and keeps to timelines.
• Analyze complex activities and information to help guide decision-making that meets the overall objectives and long-range plans of projects and the organization.
• Experience with project management software.
• Experience in managing enterprise digital transformation, go-to-market, and other strategic programs.
• Expert knowledge of project and change management methodologies, techniques and processes.
• Able to manage budget, cost and profitability.
• Resource management skills and knowledge of tools.
• High-level communication, interpersonal skills and ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with project managers, internal teams, vendors and other stakeholders.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating projects, programs and portfolios.
• Teach and mentor junior project managers.
• Drive decision-making within a multi-disciplinary, matrixed team.
• Flexible, adaptable and resourceful.
• Demonstrated leadership ability and management of high-performing teams.