Director, IT - PMO

The Director - IT, Portfolio & PMO Management leads the enterprise IT portfolio management and PMO disciplines and team, translating business strategy into an executable, governed, and value-driven portfolio. The role enables transparent investment decisions, validates value delivery, manages portfolio-level dependencies and capacity, improves predictable delivery across projects, programs, and products, and leads executive portfolio reviews with decision-quality insight on priorities, funding, risks, benefits, and outcomes.

• Lead IT portfolio, strategy, intake, sequencing and prioritization aligned with business and technology objectives
• Apply consistent criteria for strategic value, urgency, risk, cost, dependencies and capacity
• Maintain a transparent portfolio view and recommend investment, trade-off and sequencing decisions
• Partner with business and technology leaders to strengthen proposal, ownership, outcomes and readiness

• Lead executive portfolio reviews, recommendations, escalation and decision follow through
• Establish governance, decision rights, stage gates, accountability and escalation paths
• Provide clear reporting on portfolio health, value, financials, capacity, risks and required decisions
• Tailor governance to initiate size, complexity, risk and deliver approach

• Lead portfolio planning, forecasting, investment scenarios and capital & operating expense oversight with Finance
• Establish standards for business cases, total cost of ownership, benefits and value validation
• Challenge investment assumptions and provide transparency into forecast and actual spend
• Track adoption, outcomes and realized value with benefit owners, addressing gaps as needed

• Align portfolio demand with capacity, skills, sourcing options and delivery constraints
• Identify resource bottlenecks and recommend sequencing, staffing, sourcing or scope trade-offs in alignment with the respective resource managers.
• Improve visibility into workforce and partner allocation while maintaining functional accountability

• Establish fit-for-purpose standards and tools across predictive, Agile, hybrid, product and vendor-led delivery
• Monitor portfolio health, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and recovery plans
• Define intervention thresholds and lead recovery planning for initiatives outside tolerance
• Integrate architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, data, change, procurement and operational readiness into governance

• Lead and develop portfolio, program, project, business analysts, Agile and change professionals
• Establish clear roles, career paths, standards and accountability
• Simplify governance, automate reporting, improve data quality and reduce administrative burden
• Promote disciplined execution, constructive challenge and strong stakeholder partnerships

• Enable timely executive decisions supported by reliable data and clear recommendations
• Aling portfolio commitments with funding, capacity, dependencies and risk tolerance
• Ensure investments have accountable sponsors, measurable outcomes, credible plans and validated benefits
• Improve delivery predictability, risk transparency, reporting quality and PMO responsiveness
• Build 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% on project delivery.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science,…