•Leads Strategic Business Development for ongoing projects by gathering information from business sponsors, planning a strategic roadmap, and shepherding requests through to case completion and ultimately, governance approval.
•Leads Strategic Program-level activities with responsibility for multiple, concurrent project teams that develop designs and install new enterprise applications, IT technical architecture, and infrastructure systems or enhancements to existing systems.
•Develops and drives strategic implementation of the program and achieves desired business results.
•Leads project managers in a matrixed reporting setup with strategic and tactical advice on program and project planning and execution using proven methodologies.
•Responsible for developing, managing, and administrating the program-level master schedule, scope, budget, and prioritization.
•Provides portfolio/project rationalization guidance based on resource constraints (e.g., financial, time, staff, and skills), business goals, and initiatives.
•Provide leadership updates on program health to IT and business leaders via executive communications highlighting key unmitigated risks or issues needing management attention.
•Develop and deploy project management office (PMO) communication plans, methods, and tools throughout the organization, including executive steering committees.
•Functions as a senior liaison between Technology and the Business Client, and act as the go-to person that represents the entire program from the planning through deployment.
•Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.
•Able to think outside the box to innovatively tackle multiplex programs, and project challenges and improve PMO processes across the organizations.