What you'll do:
The Engineering Functional Excellence (EFE) organization is aligned with the CTO's strategy to accelerate innovation and organic growth. EFE is working to optimize and standardize processes, using best-in-class tools, and collaborating globally across functions to achieve our aspirational goal of 2X throughput. The EFE organization defines and deploys the right capability, governance, processes, systems and tools across the end-to-end Engineering and Product Development Lifecycle to drive efficient and effective execution.
We are seeking a strategic and dynamic leader for our Program Management Office (PMO). The ideal candidate will have over 18 years of experience in Program Managment and/or Engineering leadership, with a proven track record of handling multiple global portfolios. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills and the ability to drive organizational success through effective program and portfolio management aligned to enterprise initiatives and culture of excellence
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- 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.