Program Management Office Lead

Portfolio Strategy & Prioritization

• Facilitate portfolio planning discussions during the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process, ensuring alignment between business strategy, investment decisions and resource capacity.
• Maintain a balanced portfolio that optimizes growth, productivity, customer experience, operational excellence and financial returns.

Portfolio Governance & Value Realization

• Lead the portfolio governance process, including Portfolio Review Teams (PRTs) and executive decision-making forums.
• Ensure projects are appropriately evaluated, prioritized, approved and monitored through established governance processes.
• Establish transparency on portfolio health, risks, dependencies, resource constraints and value delivery.
• Track and communicate portfolio performance through key metrics, including schedule, spend, benefits realization, resource utilization and strategic contribution.
• Ensure projects deliver committed business outcomes, including EBITDA growth, cost reduction, productivity gains and strategic capabilities.

Project Delivery Excellence

• Provide coaching, guidance and support to project managers and project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project execution discipline through project management standards, methodologies, tools and best practices.
• Proactively identify execution risks, resource constraints and organizational barriers and work with leadership teams to resolve them.
• Support project teams in developing realistic schedules, business cases, implementation plans and value tracking approaches.
• Lead and facilitate Gate Review processes across the portfolio. Coach project teams and sponsors on gate expectations, deliverables and decision criteria.

PMO Capability & Organizational Maturity

• Build project management competency through training, mentoring and coaching programs.
• Promote adoption of portfolio management and project management best practices.

Leadership Partnership & Change Management

• Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, sponsors and functional teams on project and portfolio-related decisions.
• Influence stakeholders across commercial, operations, supply chain, finance, R&D and functional teams to achieve portfolio objectives.
• Drive organizational change management efforts to support successful implementation and adoption of strategic initiatives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and excellence.