We currently have an opening as a Director, PMO Center of Excellence (COE). Their goal is to develop a PMO COE operating model, then drive delivery execution using COE capabilities around methods and tools, training, benefits tracking, integration management, and resource management across the portfolio.
WHAT WILL I BE DOING?
In your role as a Director, PMO COE at Kellogg, you will be part of our success by:
Designing, developing and managing the portfolio/program/project operating model and COE organization structure
Developing and driving portfolio/program/project management best practices and standards that will improve
Developing and delivery of 3-year PMO roadmap
Developing and management of program related benefits and business value across the enterprise
Developing and executing a high degree of financial discipline across the COE and portfolio of projects
Conducting and preparing for steering level meetings and readouts
Defining and ensuring use of standard methodologies, processes, PPM tools and reporting metrics (KPIs)
Tracking portfolio related status, issues, risks and dependencies
Pursuing issue and risk resolution and communicates status and escalations to business stakeholders and operational management.
Providing leadership the recommended resolution and/or escalation of issues that may impact project scope, schedule or budget
Developing a set of executive and team related dashboards to communicate up and down the organization the status of the portfolio
Monitoring the integration of rationalization, enterprise and business architecture efforts across the PMO portfolio
Managing the design authority and change control functions of the PMO portfolio
Managing the intake and demand management function and maintains the capital and expense budgets across the program portfolio
Tracking, monitoring and managing resource and capacity management conflicts and demands
Overseeing the coordination and delivery of program plans, WBS structures and deliverables and the management of milestones
Adopting portfolio/program/project management methodology and providing suitable interpretation to all stakeholders within the organization
Interacting with every component of the PMO to ensure delivery standardization and optimization drives delivery excellence. The key interaction will be with the Senior Director of PMO on demand management, overall PMO portfolio health, and strategic direction
Ensuring that training curriculums support the PMO strategy
Working with the Business and Integration Lead to understand current and future dependency risks, and propose mitigation plans to the Senior Director of PMO
Interacting with the Resource Manager to monitor demand management, identify vendor pool resources who can resolve a current issues or mitigate a future risk
Working with the Analytics lead to ensure that we are using data to “make the news” not “report the news”
Teaming with program and portfolio managers to help drive delivery, and to identify risks and issues that need to be escalated
Participating in the stage gate process for all programs and projects in the portfolio
Reporting to the Senior Director of PMO on a weekly basis and provide status and forward-looking recommendation on risks, issues, actions, decisions, and dependencies
WHAT DO I NEED TO DEMONSTRATE?
As well as a hunger to learn and succeed in Program Management, to be considered for this position you must be able to meet the following requirements:
Required:
HS Diploma/GED
Extensive experience in program, project, and portfolio management
Extensive experience with the functions within program and portfolio management
Extensive experience with delivery methodologies and tools
Project, Program, and Portfolio leadership experience
Program manager experience or people manager experience (with direct reports)
Portfolio, capacity, and financial management experience
Experience managing global initiatives
Experience driving change management initiatives across an organization
Strong influence management skills; ability to work cooperatively at all levels in a matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness – ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees
Exceptional analytical, strategic, planning, organization, and time management skills to effectively execute project plans and budgets
Clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of cross- functional project teams and functional management
Business acumen; ability to think from an overall “best for the business” perspective
Demonstrates initiative; results oriented
Excellent decision making skills – ability to negotiate and balance decisions and manage competing priorities across multiple functional areas
Preferred:
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Business, or related field
Experience implementing initiatives through effective influence management skills at multiple levels in the organization
Experience in creating and delivering presentations to leadership
Excellent facilitation and issue resolution skills
Previous experience operating in a matrix organization
Ability to work independently or collaboratively to determine and develop approaches to solutions with very little to no supervision or direction
Experience providing work direction and leadership to people and teams in a management role
Experience with Planview, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW?
Travel is approximately 25%.
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