Director IT Program Management

The Director IT Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for establishing leading and continuously maturing the IT program and portfolio management capability across Honeywell Aerospace.

This role provides endtoend ownership of the IT investment lifecycle spanning Idea intake Annual Operating Plan (AOP) planning portfolio governance execution excellence financial stewardship and performance transparency. The Director partners closely with IT leadership global PMOs architecture finance and business stakeholders to ensure that strategic ideas are converted into funded initiatives and executed with rigor predictability and measurable business outcomes.

The role serves as the single point of accountability for portfolio discipline and execution governance balancing delivery accountability with controls transparency and decision enablement.

Key Responsibilities

AOP Idea Intake & Investment Lifecycle Management

• Own and lead the endtoend Idea AOP Execution lifecycle for all IT initiatives
• Establish and govern a standardized Idea intake and evaluation process to ensure transparency and consistency
• Ensure all Ideas are clearly articulated with:
  • Business problem and value
  • Estimated cost and benefits
  • Risks dependencies and strategic alignment
• Partner with IT leadership architecture finance and business stakeholders to evaluate prioritize and disposition Ideas (approve defer reject or rescope)
• Drive conversion of approved Ideas into AOPfunded initiatives ensuring traceability from Idea funded AOP item program/project
• Enforce discipline to ensure no initiatives execute outside the approved AOP and governance framework
• Maintain portfoliolevel visibility of:
  • Submitted Ideas
  • Approved vs deferred Ideas
  • AOPfunded initiatives
  • Inflight and completed programs

Portfolio Strategy Governance & Alignment

• Own and operate the IT portfolio governance framework aligned to enterprise and global PMO standards
• Translate strategic priorities into a balanced valuedriven AOP portfolio
• Maintain a single integrated view of demand capacity funding priorities and dependencies
• Enable leadership decisionmaking through clear prioritization tradeoffs and scenario analysis

Program & Execution Excellence

• Provide endtoend accountability for execution of all AOPfunded programs and initiatives
• Establish and enforce execution rhythms including SteerCos operating reviews and stagegate tollgates
• Drive crossprogram dependency management and integrated planning
• Ensure delivery discipline across scope schedule cost quality and risk

Standards Methods & Ways of Working

• Define and standardize program and project management standards playbooks and governance artifacts
• Ensure consistent adoption of approved PMO tools dashboards and reporting mechanisms
• Champion continuous improvement of PMO maturity and delivery effectiveness

Performance Visibility & Executive Reporting

• Provide leadership with clear trusted and actionable visibility into:
  • Idea pipeline
  • AOP commitments
  • Portfolio health
  • Risks issues and decision points
• Own executivelevel portfolio dashboards narratives and leadership reportouts
• Ensure transparency of progress risks and tradeoffs across the IT portfolio

Financial Stewardship & Value Realization

• Oversee AOP planning portfolio budgeting forecasting and spend governance
• Ensure strong financial discipline across the investment lifecycle
• Partner with Finance to align funding execution progress and realized business outcomes

Risk Controls & Compliance

• Establish strong risk and issue management disciplines from Idea evaluation through execution
• Ensure initiatives comply with required governance controls and approval thresholds
• Manage exceptions through formal leadershipapproved escalation and decision processes

Talent Capability & PMO Leadership

• Build and sustain a highperforming PMO organization
• Develop PM capability through coaching standards and learning pathways
• Drive yearoveryear improvement in PMO effectiveness credibility and business impact

Stakeholder & CrossFunctional Leadership

• Act as the single executive owner for IT portfolio AOP and execution governance
• Partner with architecture engineering security and business leaders to accelerate outcomes
• Foster a culture of accountability transparency and outcome ownership

Experience & Capabilities

• 15 years of experience in IT program management PMO leadership or enterprise delivery roles
• Proven experience managing large complex IT portfolios and enterprisewide programs
• Demonstrated success operating in global matrixed organizations
• Strong expertise in portfolio governance AOP planning financial management and execution frameworks
• Exceptional executive communication reporting and stakeholder management skills

Education

• Bachelors or masters degree in engineering Information Technology Management or a related field

Who Will Succeed in This Role

• A senior leader who brings structure discipline and transparency to complex IT portfolios
• Someone who can balance strategic thinking with execution rigor
• A trusted partner to senior leadership who enables clear decisions and predictable outcomes
• A PMO leader viewed as a strategic enabler not an administrative layer

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