Sr Director PMO
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Job Location:
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Exciting News Were Moving!
As part of our continued growth and our commitment to fostering an exceptional collaborative work environment were thrilled to announce that our office will be relocating to a brand-new building at 2000 Innovation Drive Wexford PA 15090 at the beginning of this the meantime hybrid employees will continue working from our current location at RIDC OHara until the transition is complete.
Were excited about this next chapter and look forward to welcoming new team members to our growing organization!
SUMMARY
Armada Supply Chain Solutions has been around for more than 100 years and is one of Pittsburghs largest private companies. We understand that a successful organization starts from the inside. Armadas culture creates an atmosphere of open planning innovation and diversity of thought. The Senior Director PMO provides strategic leadership and governance for the organizations enterprise portfolio of initiatives with a strong emphasis on ITâenabled business capabilities and enterprise applications. This role ensures that projectsparticularly those involving core business applications platforms and systemsare delivered using fitâforâpurpose IT project methodologies and aligned to business strategy architecture standards and value realization goals. This is a Pittsburgh based hybrid role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Portfolio & Strategy Alignment
- Own and manage the enterprise portfolio of business and IT initiatives ensuring alignment with corporate strategy application roadmaps and technology standards
- Partner with IT and business leaders to prioritize investments
- Ensure portfolio decisions consider technical debt application lifecycle scalability and business impact
- Provide executiveâlevel insight into portfolio health delivery risk and dependency
PMO Governance IT Methodology & Standards
- Continuously evolve enterprise project and program management methodologies
- Ensure project delivery aligns with IT methodologies:
- Application development and release practices
- Infrastructure cloud and platform delivery models
- Vendor and system integrator delivery approaches
- IT governance security risk and audit requirements
- Support and mature standards for:
- IT project intake and business case development
- Stage gates delivery assurance and production readiness
Delivery Excellence & Value Realization
- Partner with Application Architecture and Infrastructure leaders to ensure:
- Projects align with enterprise architecture and application roadmaps
- Dependencies across systems and platforms are proactively managed
- Delivery plans account for data integration testing and deployment complexity
- Ensure benefits realization explicitly tie project delivery to business outcomes
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to technology complexity vendor delivery and organizational readiness
- Promote best practices in estimation planning release management and delivery of solutions
Leadership & Organizational Enablement
- Lead and develop a PMO team of 10 portfolio managers program managers and IT project managers.
- Build strong partnerships with IT and business stakeholders translating business strategy into executable initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to executives on project strategy sequencing and execution
- Evolve the PMO into a strategic IT delivery partner not just a governance and execution function
Tools Data & Reporting
- Own enterprise PPM and Agile tools supporting project delivery (e.g. OnePlan JIRA).
- Ensure visibility to project and portfolio status with transparency to key KPIs and SLAs
- Use data and metrics to continuously improve project delivery maturity and throughput.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Yes
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience
- 12 years of experience in project program or portfolio management including significant IT delivery leadership
- Proven experience leading initiatives involving enterprise business applications and complex IT systems
- Demonstrated success applying and scaling IT project methodologies across diverse delivery models
- Supply Chain experience is strongly preferred
Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of:
- Enterprise business applications and application lifecycles
- IT delivery methodologies (Agile Hybrid Waterfall)
- Systems integration data dependencies and release management
- Ability to bridge business objectives and technical execution
- Executiveâlevel communication presentation and decisionâsupport skills
- Excellent proven leadership and team management skills
- Demonstrated strategic thinking capabilities.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelors degree required; Masters degree preferred.
- PMP PgMP SAFe SPC Lean Portfolio Management or equivalent IT delivery certifications
Required Experience:
Exec
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- PMBOK
- PPM Tools
- Waterfall
- Project Server
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- SDLC
About Company
The COMPANY is a retail concept well recognized franchise operator in the Middle East with the head quarters based in Kuwait. The COMPANY with its retail history in the region since 1973 has currently over 15 well know retail franchise brands and 3 in house brands in its growing bran ... View more
