Senior Director, Technology – Transformation PMO
McCormick & Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hunt Valley • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $166,360 - $299,450 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead internal and external teams to ensure successful execution of large, complex, global projects.
- Provide direction and stewardship for the functions within the PMO, including program management, project management, agile management, change management, communications and training.
- Lead the development, execution, continuous improvement, and adoption of frameworks to operationalize program management best practices across the enterprise, from building, launching, and post-launch optimization.
- Prioritize key initiatives to ensure the most impactful projects are delivered successfully.
- Assemble and organize internal and external cross-functional teams to effectively execute assigned projects. This includes risk management, stakeholder management, regulation/governance, meeting cadence, communication best practices, etc.
- Establish cross-functional goals and ensure there is a common understanding of scope and objectives.
- Communicate alignment of multiple initiatives to ensure clarity of purpose against growth strategy.
- Connect the dots. Work with Transformation Office regularly to address business needs efficiently and identify gaps/opportunities to evolve processes with a focus on scalability.
- Provide executive transparency and analysis into the financial health, spend, and strategic alignment of the Business Transformation portfolio and Technology portfolio overall.
- Inspire, mentor, and manage a high-performing PMO team.
- Develop governance structure and approval matrix, allowing for flexibility to drive innovation and empowerment.
- Develop strong relationships with key internal and external customers and third-party partners.
- Create Business Transformation strategic planning process (3 Yr Long-term plan) linked to the business strategies and enterprise architecture roadmaps.
- Ensure program and project performance metrics are defined, monitored, executed and reported to deliver business value.
- Lead demand and capacity management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information sciences, engineering, or equivalent years of industry experience.
- 15+ years’ experience in strategy, project leadership, consulting (strategy & operations, technology), PMO, or other similar roles managing enterprise-wide, complex global programs with multiple projects/work streams.
- Previous experience working in a ‘Delivery-as-a-Service’ model with the ability to evaluate and articulate the portfolio in commercial terms (Revenue, Delivery, Savings, Value Pools).
- Extensive experience identifying, monitoring and reporting project interdependencies, risks and issue resolution.
- Previous experience creating a project management center of excellence; setting PMI PMBoK project management best practices, processes and policies.
- Proven experience in attracting, inspiring, developing, and retaining a diverse, high-performing global team of project coordinators, project managers, program managers and global process owners.
- Ability to seek and establish executive relationships throughout the organization to establish a strong network with key stakeholders.
- Proven track record of influencing C-Level Business Leaders.
- Visionary leader with a bias for execution who can also dig into the details with the front-line team.
- Data-driven mindset with proven experience utilizing metrics & insights as tools for informed decision-making.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth opportunities
- Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
- Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness
- Tuition assistance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementproject managementagile managementchange managementrisk managementstakeholder managementperformance metricscapacity managementPMI PMBoKDelivery-as-a-Service
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringrelationship buildingstrategic planninginfluencingvisionary thinkingdata-driven decision makingteam developmentorganizational alignment
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreePMI certification