IT PMO Director

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*This resource must be local to the Chicago area and can come onsite as needed (Chicago office). Must be eligible to work within the United States without sponsorship*

Our multi-billion-dollar client company is one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies with economy-proof products that allows them to prosper and grow even through economic shifts. The Director IT PMO will be responsible for developing and implementing program and portfolio management methodologies, developing standards, and improvement processes across the organization. This leader will work directly with the business and shareholders to propose as well implement company-wide changes for a fast paced, Global team. This organization's growth has been largely due to successful acquisitions and previous experience in M&A is a requirement.

As a highly visible leader, this PMO professional is expected to build project and program governance framework that will ensure consistency and order throughout the growing organization.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage and anticipate project risks and issues and ensure that appropriate mitigation planning and change management procedures are in place.
• Work cross-functionally through a high-level of collaboration with various departments and levels- constantly align PMO strategies.
• Work in close collaboration with Business Stakeholders to evaluate, establish, allocate, and properly track IT PMO budgets across the org.
• Effectively manage a budget of at least $4M.
• Participate and provide support to project leads and engineers as requested during project planning for key and large-scale growth projects.
• Assemble standards for project planning, task tracking, reconciling budgets, and status reporting.
• Provide an integrative view and analysis of the various project aspects within the key projects to enable better decision making.
• Work closely with program and project manage teams within Agile Scrum environment, working within the methodology.
• Define and maintain KPI’s and metrics to track and monitor performance.
• Deliver effective tracking, reporting, and communication tools to provide leadership with key progress results.
• Establish operational excellence training to educate and promote a culture of continuous improvement in the organization.
• Provide guidance to distributed project teams and other stakeholders on project management methodology.
• Manage major change requests and learnings from key growth projects and identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and drive continuous improvement.