Manager, Program Management Excellence

he ability to drive organizational success through effective program and portfolio management aligned to enterprise initiatives and culture of excellence

• Strategic Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to the PMO functions, ensuring alignment with the organization's short term & long-term goals and objectives. The incumbent should possess the ability to anticipate future trends with a comprehensive understanding and insights derived from data.

• Policy Development: Develop and implement PMO policies, procedures, and best practices that drive efficiency and effectiveness.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and report on programs and portfolio performance, using data-driven insights to identify areas for improvement and implement strategic corrective actions.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with leadership and key stakeholders (Business Unit, IT, Finance etc.) ensuring effective communication and alignment of program and portfolio initiatives with business strategies.

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a highly experienced team of program managers and support staff, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.

• Innovation and Improvement: Drive innovation within the PMO, continuously seeking ways to improve processes, tools, and methodologies.

• Decision quality: Ability to estimate the work, identify bottlenecks, make good control decisions based on data, analysis, wisdom, experience, judgment and timely escalation.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in engineering, masters in business administrtion is preferred.
• PMI accreditation is a plus.
• Strategic Agility - sees ahead clearly; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies
• Drive for results - can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
• Decision quality - makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Demonstrated experience in managing & developing new processes, systems and tool
• Excellent at communication skills - verbal, written and presentation
• Skilled at conflict management, dealing with ambiguity and change management

Skills:

Expert support and own the creation of Program Management Standard Work at the Enterprise Level, creating tools and processes for Portfolio Management, Waterlining & Profit planning, Portfolio Complexity Reduction, and Operationalizing Product Launch Frameworks, establish Program Management Curriculum, drive Change Management, support the vision together with other functions (e.g. Finance, IT) for world-class processes and tools.