PMO Manager

Job Title: PMO Manager

Location: On Site - Tempe, Arizona, United States

Salary: $120,000-$150,000

Skills: Project Management, PMO Management, Low Voltage, Construction, K-12, Government

About the IT Services and IT Consulting Company / The Opportunity:

Join a dynamic organization in the IT services and IT consulting industry, delivering complex technology solutions to a diverse client base. As PMO Manager, you will lead a team of project management professionals and oversee a portfolio of customer engagements, helping ensure projects are delivered to scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. This on-site Tempe opportunity combines team leadership with hands-on project management and meaningful collaboration across customers, sales, professional services, and delivery teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project managers, associate project managers, and project coordinators.
• Govern a portfolio of client engagements, ensuring delivery aligns with statements of work and established PMO methodology.
• Oversee project planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout, while personally managing select projects as needed.
• Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resource capacity, risks, issues, and change requests across the portfolio.
• Communicate project health, progress, financials, risks, and decisions clearly to customers, executives, and delivery teams.
• Coordinate internal teams and third-party vendors to meet contractual commitments and customer expectations.
• Maintain quality standards and verify that project deliverables meet agreed requirements.
• Partner with PMO leadership and peer teams to improve project delivery processes, tools, and practices.

Must-Have Skills:

• 10 or more years of enterprise IT infrastructure project or program management experience, including concurrent projects for multiple external customers.
• Experience leading project teams and delivering projects in a professional services or consulting environment.
• Strong project portfolio governance and expertise in scope, schedule, financial, risk, issue, and quality management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Project, and project or portfolio management systems.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills, including the ability to engage with both frontline teams and executive sponsors.
• Ability to lead teams, manage competing priorities, and respond effectively to ambiguity and changing requests.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, project management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience delivering low-voltage cabling, audiovisual, security, wireless, networking, unified communications, or data center projects.
• Construction industry experience coordinating with general contractors and other trades.
• Familiarity with construction drawings for new builds and tenant improvements.
• Experience supporting technology deployments in K-12 or government environments.
• Knowledge of construction site safety requirements and related protective equipment.