Director, IT - PMO

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Director, IT - PMO

Full-time | Milwaukee, WI (Onsite) | NO C2C

Summary

Seeking an experienced Director, IT - PMO to lead enterprise IT portfolio management and PMO operations within a large, complex global organization. This position carries significant responsibility for aligning technology investments with business strategy, strengthening investment governance, and ensuring the effective allocation of financial and organizational resources.

Reporting within senior IT leadership, the Director will work closely with C-suite executives, Finance, and global business leaders to shape investment priorities, evaluate strategic trade-offs, and guide decisions across a diverse portfolio of technology initiatives. The role requires a strong command of portfolio financial management, executive governance, and organizational capacity planning, with a focus on investment performance and measurable business outcomes.

The Director will also provide strategic and operational leadership to an established global PMO, building upon existing capabilities while advancing governance, delivery standards, and portfolio performance. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology investment decisions, lead an experienced team, and further develop a critical function within a global organization undergoing continued transformation.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy, Intake & Prioritization

• Lead IT portfolio strategy, intake, sequencing, and prioritization in alignment with business and technology objectives.
• Apply consistent evaluation criteria for strategic value, urgency, risk, cost, dependencies, and organizational capacity.
• Maintain a transparent enterprise portfolio view and recommend investment, trade-off, and sequencing decisions.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to strengthen investment proposals, ownership, measurable outcomes, and delivery readiness.

Executive Governance & Decision Support

• Lead executive portfolio reviews, investment recommendations, escalations, and decision follow-through.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, decision rights, stage gates, accountability, and escalation paths.
• Provide executive-level reporting on portfolio health, investment value, financial performance, resource capacity, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Tailor governance practices to initiative size, complexity, risk, and delivery approach.
• Facilitate alignment across senior business and technology stakeholders, navigating competing priorities and supporting informed strategic decisions.

Financial Management & Value Realization

• Lead portfolio financial planning, forecasting, investment scenario analysis, and capital and operating expense oversight in partnership with Finance.
• Establish standards for business cases, total cost of ownership, expected benefits, and value validation.
• Evaluate investment assumptions and provide transparency into forecasted versus actual spending.
• Partner with business sponsors and benefit owners to track adoption, outcomes, and realized value, addressing performance gaps as needed.
• Support financially sound investment decisions that balance strategic priorities, available resources, risk, and expected business outcomes.

Resource & Demand Management

• Align portfolio demand with organizational capacity, available skills, sourcing options, and delivery constraints.
• Identify resource bottlenecks and recommend sequencing, staffing, sourcing, or scope adjustments in collaboration with functional resource managers.
• Improve visibility into internal workforce and external partner allocation while maintaining functional accountability.
• Support effective capacity planning and prioritization across global business and technology functions.

Delivery Standards & Portfolio Assurance

• Establish appropriate delivery standards, methodologies, and tools across predictive, Agile, hybrid, product-based, and vendor-led initiatives.
• Monitor portfolio health, critical milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and recovery plans.
• Define intervention thresholds and lead recovery planning for initiatives operating outside established tolerances.
• Integrate architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, data, change management, procurement, and operational readiness into portfolio governance.
• Strengthen delivery consistency, risk transparency, and accountability across the enterprise IT portfolio.

PMO Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary PMO team, including portfolio, program, project, business analysis, Agile, and change management professionals.
• Establish clear roles, career development paths, delivery standards, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Continuously improve PMO governance, operating models, reporting capabilities, and organizational effectiveness.
• Simplify governance processes, automate reporting, improve data quality, and reduce unnecessary administrative burden.
• Promote disciplined execution, constructive challenge, cross-functional collaboration, and strong stakeholder partnerships.

Performance Outcomes

• Enable timely executive decisions supported by accurate portfolio data, clear recommendations, and transparent investment analysis.
• Align portfolio commitments with available funding, organizational capacity, dependencies, and enterprise risk tolerance.
• Ensure technology investments have accountable sponsors, measurable outcomes, credible delivery plans, and validated business benefits.
• Improve delivery predictability, risk visibility, reporting quality, and PMO responsiveness.
• Build and maintain 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% for project delivery.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in technology portfolio, program, project, or PMO leadership, including experience leading an IT PMO function within a global organization with more than $2 billion in annual revenue.
• Demonstrated experience with executive governance, strategic investment prioritization, portfolio financial management, resource and demand planning, delivery assurance, and value realization.
• Experience establishing or materially improving enterprise portfolio governance, benefits realization practices, delivery tools, or PMO operating models.
• Proven experience leading and developing multidisciplinary delivery professionals and influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Experience operating within complex, multifunctional organizations with significant transformation and merger and acquisition activity.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, financial analysis, conflict resolution, and decision-framing skills, with the ability to translate complex portfolio information into clear, actionable recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Technology, or a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or comparable portfolio, program, project management, or Agile certifications.