IT PMO Manager

Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Category: IT, Data & Tech

Employment Type: Full time

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Position Summary:

The IT PMO owns China IT project governance and leads selected strategic digital and IT initiatives end to end. In addition to portfolio governance, the role serves as a hands-on project manager for complex cross-functional programs, ensuring alignment with Global IT PMO requirements and delivery on time, within scope, budget, and quality expectations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own China IT portfolio governance, including project intake, prioritization, status tracking, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Implement Global IT PMO standards locally and provide ongoing visibility of China project progress, risks, and escalations.
• Govern the Digital Transformation portfolio, coordinate cross-functional delivery, and facilitate steering committee reviews to drive timely decisions and resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Act as end-to-end project manager for complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring delivery on scope, timeline, budget, and quality.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, vendor deliverables, and resource requirements in alignment with approved business cases and China IT financial governance.
• Provide clear project status, decisions, risks, issues, and accomplishments to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate project and portfolio information in Planview, Power BI, and other approved tools.
• Provide project management training and coaching to China IT project leads.

Experience & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree; IT, engineering, or related discipline preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in IT project, program, or portfolio management.
• Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with local and global stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business objectives into executable project plans and drive disciplined delivery.
• Strong capability in portfolio governance, steering committee facilitation, and risk escalation.
• Strong stakeholder management, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Chinese and English.
• PMP certification preferred; Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Six Sigma certification is a plus.