Sr Manager, IT Strategy and Governance

Job Purpose

As a key member of the extended IT staff within PHINIA’s Office of the CIO and reporting to the Director of IT Transformation, this Senior Manager owns the operating mechanisms that ensure IT strategy governs how money, capacity, and leadership attention are allocated and how value is realized across the IT organization. This role also synthesizes IT strategy into a coherent executive narrative, consolidated roadmaps, and planning frameworks to support CIO‑ and executive‑level decision making.

This leader stabilizes execution, strengthens governance across PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, and reduces CIO load by converting strategic priorities into enforceable constraints, coherent investment decisions, and measurable outcomes. The senior manager also provides integration governance for acquisition due diligence and IT integration to ensure consistency of prioritization, funding, and value realization during M&A activity.

• Own the operating mechanisms that translate IT strategy into investment, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery decisions across the IT organization.
• Ensure funded initiatives and active work are aligned to declared strategic priorities and defined value outcomes, and surface misalignment for leadership action.
• Establish and enforce constraints on funding, capacity, and sequencing to prevent strategic dilution and delivery thrash.
• Implement value realization discipline, including upfront value hypotheses, in‑flight inspection, and post‑delivery review for material IT initiatives.
• Maintain a CIO‑level view of initiative coherence, overload, drift, and value erosion across the IT initiative landscape.
• Serve as the CIO’s control plane for execution governance, ensuring leadership attention is applied to systemic issues rather than recurring operational noise.
• Own the governance model for PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, ensuring these functions operate as a coherent system rather than parallel reporting lanes.
• Hold PMO, VMO, and IT Finance leaders accountable for producing decision‑quality inputs that support prioritization and trade‑off decisions, not just reporting.
• Integrate financial, delivery, and vendor performance data to improve prioritization quality and investment trade‑off decisions.
• Ensure organizational change impact and adoption requirements are explicitly accounted for in initiative approval, funding, sequencing, and value realization governance.
• Lead IT integration governance for acquisitions, ensuring integration priorities, funding, sequencing, and execution risks are explicitly managed.
• Ensure acquisition integration work adheres to the same strategy alignment, constraint discipline, and value realization standards as the rest of the IT initiative landscape.
• Identify systemic delivery, vendor, and prioritization failure patterns and drive changes to operating rules, governance, or escalation paths to prevent recurrence.
• Define, design, and execute additional operating model and governance improvements as directed by the Director, IT Transformation and the CIO.
• Synthesize tower‑level strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps into a coherent enterprise IT strategy narrative and consolidated multi‑horizon roadmap for executive consumption.
• Own the IT strategy planning cadence, including preparation of CIO and IT leadership materials for executive forums, planning cycles, and strategy reviews.
• Develop executive‑grade strategy artifacts (decks, narratives, roadmaps) that clearly articulate trade‑offs, sequencing, investment themes, and expected value.
• Frame strategic options and scenarios for leadership by modeling capacity, funding, risk, and value implications of competing priorities.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in enterprise IT leadership, transformation, operating model, execution governance, or management consulting roles with direct exposure to enterprise IT strategy and planning.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating governance mechanisms that improved execution stability and reduced leadership escalation load.
• Experience integrating financial management, delivery governance, and vendor…