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Director, IT PMO

Marlborough, MA

Posted: 01/14/2025 Industry: Systems, Software and IT Job Number: 17376

Job Description

Connexion’s mission is to provide "best in class" services to job seekers. We strive to achieve excellence in job placement, staffing, and recruiting services, while treating candidates with the professionalism and respect they deserve.

Title: Director, IT PMO
Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering

Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
  • Duration: Direct Hire
  • Pay rate: Midpoint $218K – max $215-$220K | Bonus 25%
  • Job Location: Marlborough, MA
  • Schedule: M-F 1st shift – Flexible
  • Job#: bh17376

Description:
  • Discover a Technology career with real meaning. One that offers the opportunity to showcase your talents, achieve measurable success and gain immense satisfaction by enabling healthier lives everywhere, every day.
  • Our Information Technology (IT) department is looking for a director to lead our global IT PMO, and partner closely with global IT and business leadership to ensure the successful delivery of projects that align with business initiatives and priorities.
  • The Director, IT PMO will take on a leadership role in overseeing our global PMO function and processes while maintaining the IT project portfolio across the enterprise. The right candidate should have an excellent proven track record of successful execution and delivery of highly complex value-capture programs and projects within the Life Sciences/Medical Technology industry.

Responsibilities Include:
PMO Center of Excellence
  • Define and communicate the IT PMO strategic vision globally across the organization
  • Develop an IT PMO Center of Excellence complete with industry standard best practices, processes and templates that ensure projects are executed efficiently and consistently 
  • Establishes and maintains a standard project management approach to drive project initiation, planning, and execution, tailored to deliver innovative new technologies with timeliness, readiness and reliability
  • Continuously pursue opportunities to evolve and mature the IT PMO processes and templates
  • Extensive knowledge of project management processes, systems development methods, organizational change management concepts, and business process improvement methods
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations and communicate technical concepts to non-technical partners

Portfolio & Project Management
  • Defines key performance indicators and clarifies ownership for delivery at all levels of the organization, driving for focused delivery based on commitments
  • Conducts regular portfolio and project reviews, proactive risk management, and critical thinking to ensure predictability, quality, and communication
  • Ensure projects align with the organization's strategic goals and objectives
  • Partners/collaborates with business stakeholders to define success metrics and criteria, project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
  • Deliver excellent reporting and clear/concise communication to key stakeholders across the organization to ensure successful project completion 
  • As the application owner, define the strategy, roadmap and implementation plans for an enterprise-wide portfolio management tool
  • Establish a governance structure, standards and support model for the enterprise-wide portfolio management tool

Project Pipeline Reporting & Resource Management
  • Drives implementation of a resource management process and reporting to facilitate prioritization, management trade-offs, and efficient project intake based on changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risks, and interdependencies meeting deadlines
  • Works with the divisional IT and functional leaders to ensure appropriate leveling and allocation of resources to projects and to resolve competing project needs
  • Develops an overall communication strategy and a reporting process for updating the organization and relevant business stakeholders on project and pipeline progress, decisions and impacts

Development of PMO Staff and Operations
  • Provides direction, guidance, and strong leadership to the PMO staff and fosters collaboration and effective integration of efforts with division-wide initiatives
  • Assesses cross-functional project team capability and defines specific improvement actions and training needs to improve collaborative development and project results. Identifies skill gaps and initiates activities to close the gaps
  • Monitors the delivery of business objectives and client experience for PMO services
  • Accountable for overseeing the IT PMO financial resources

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in appropriate discipline
  • 10+ years of project and program management experience with increasing complexity, including managing multi-geographic division or enterprise-wide projects, mainly in medical device/biotechnology industries
  • 5+ years of experience working with technical applications and/or information systems, or equivalent, including managing information technology projects, or equivalent
  • Proficient and experienced in Agile Project Management Methodology
  • Experience working on project and portfolio management tools
  • Hands-on experience in project/portfolio resource planning, reporting, prioritization, and budgeting
  • Experience leading projects and programs within and outside IT, as well as projects and programs that involved external providers
  • Demonstrated business acumen and experience leading multi-functional activities with accountability for portfolio, budgetary and resource allocation
  • Ability to work effectively with all organizational levels while building collaborative working relationships with various stakeholders
  • Demonstrated expertise in all aspects of program management
  • Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop others

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Meet Your Recruiter

Emily Donahue
Regional Recruiting Manager

  • Directthe recruitment efforts for both the Quincy, MA and Providence, RI branches. 
  • Manages a distributed team of recruiting leads, individual contributor recruiters and account managers. 
  • Responsible for leading the fulfillment and execution of sourcing, recruiting, sales and business development practices across the region. 
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