Director, IT PMO

The Director - IT Portfolio & PMO Management leads the enterprise IT portfolio management and PMO disciplines and team translating business strategy into an executable governed and value-driven portfolio. The role enables transparent investment decisions validates value delivery manages portfolio-level dependencies and capacity improves predictable delivery across projects programs and products and leads executive portfolio reviews with decision-quality insight on priorities funding risks benefits and outcomes.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBLITIES
Portfolio Strategy Intake and Prioritization

• Lead IT portfolio strategy intake sequencing and prioritization aligned with business and technology objectives

• Apply consistent criteria for strategic value urgency risk cost dependencies and capacity

• Maintain a transparent portfolio view and recommend investment trade-off and sequencing decisions

• Partner with business and technology leaders to strengthen proposal ownership outcomes and readiness

Executive Governance and Decision Support

• Lead executive portfolio reviews recommendations escalation and decision follow through

• Establish governance decision rights stage gates accountability and escalation paths

• Provide clear reporting on portfolio health value financials capacity risks and required decisions

• Tailor governance to initiate size complexity risk and deliver approach

Financial Management and Value Realization

• Lead portfolio planning forecasting investment scenarios and capital & operating expense oversight with Finance

• Establish standards for business cases total cost of ownership benefits and value validation

• Challenge investment assumptions and provide transparency into forecast and actual spend

• Track adoption outcomes and realized value with benefit owners addressing gaps as needed

Resource and Demand Management

• Align portfolio demand with capacity skills sourcing options and delivery constraints

• Identify resource bottlenecks and recommend sequencing staffing sourcing or scope trade-offs in alignment with the respective resource managers.

• Improve visibility into workforce and partner allocation while maintaining functional accountability

Delivery Standards and Portfolio Assurance

• Establish fit-for-purpose standards and tools across predictive Agile hybrid product and vendor-led delivery

• Monitor portfolio health milestones dependencies risks issues and recovery plans

• Define intervention thresholds and lead recovery planning for initiatives outside tolerance

• Integrate architecture cybersecurity privacy compliance data change procurement and operational readiness into governance

PMO Leadership and Continuous Improvement

• Lead and develop portfolio program project business analysts Agile and change professionals

• Establish clear roles career paths standards and accountability

• Simplify governance automate reporting improve data quality and reduce administrative burden

• Promote disciplined execution constructive challenge and strong stakeholder partnerships

Performance Outcomes

• Enable timely executive decisions supported by reliable data and clear recommendations

• Aling portfolio commitments with funding capacity dependencies and risk tolerance

• Ensure investments have accountable sponsors measurable outcomes credible plans and validated benefits

• Improve delivery predictability risk transparency reporting quality and PMO responsiveness

• Build a high- performing PMO team with consistent standards and clear accountability

• Maintain more than 90% of the portfolio in green status monthly and achieve a Net Promoter Score above 25% on project delivery.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in information technology computer science engineering business administration or related field or equivalent relevant experience

• 12 years of progressive experience in technology portfolio program project or PMO leadership including leading an IT PMO function in a global organization with more than $2 billion in revenue

• Demonstrated experience with executive governance investment prioritization portfolio financial management resource and demand planning delivery assurance and value realization

• Experience establishing or materially improving portfolio governance benefits realization delivery tooling or PMO operating models

• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary delivery professionals and influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology functions

• Experience in a complex multi-functional environment with significant transformation and merger and acquisition activity

• Strong executive communication facilitation analysis conflict resolution and decision-framing skills with the ability to convert complex portfolio data into clear choices

• Experience with portfolio and project management platforms financial planning tools and executive dashboards with a commitment to data quality and automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in business technology or a related field

• PMP PgMP PfMP PMI-ACP SAFe or a comparable portfolio program project or agile certifications

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.