Director, Program Management
Listed on 2026-02-24
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Management
IT Project Manager, Program / Project Manager, Operations Manager
Job Description:
Company
Description:
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years.
Joining McDonald’s means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.
At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.
DepartmentOverview
The Global Enterprise Service Management (ESM) PMO Lead is responsible for project and program management for the ESM program to drive orderly and timely project and program execution and delivery. The ESM implementation Program is a multiyear program to establish a First Stop Shop for all McDonald’s employees, both Corporate and Mc Cop Co . This role ensures predictable execution, risk-managed delivery, and cross-functional alignment for one of McDonald’s most critical global transformation programs.
The PMO Lead is responsible for maintaining a single source of truth for plans, dependencies, scope, risks, and outcomes, and drives alignment across a cross functional group of collaborators and partners.
Duties- Ensure the program is operating to plan, proactively identifying risk and issues, and engaging the right parties to mitigate risk and resolve issues
- Establish and facilitate program governance and project status forums, ensuring all parties are informed of actions and decisions
- Accountable for leading a multi-year initiative leveraging a team of experienced program managers, market resources, and functional subject matter experts assigned to the initiative
- Coordinate and engage with key cross-workstream internal partners to streamline interactions while maintaining line of sight to dependencies required for success
- Help with implementation and reinforcement of project management methodology
- Advise leadership and/or business executives at the highest levels about the initiative, leveraging the standard status and communication reporting processes
- Provide project workplan management support, keeping track of plans, budget, quality standards, deliverables, and dependencies
- Track and monitor project metrics, reporting and project finance management
- Facilitate internal and external meetings
- Monitor relationships and dependencies between project areas and active improvement submission
- Lead project support team
- Organize project resource management, ensuring the proper onboarding/offboarding of program team members, and maintaining adherence to relevant security, data, and access policies in alignment with McDonald’s Data and Security Governance Standards
- Build and coordinate development of communication materials for McDonald’s Leadership that shows the progress of the project and potential barriers (including owning these materials for key forums such as Steering Committee meetings, etc.)
- 10+ years of prior program and project management experience leading large scale, global integrated transformation programs, preferably in a multidomain GBS environment. Experience with enterprise Service Now successful implementations is required.
- Leadership, Planning and Execution overseeing the initiative and provides direction and leadership to the team ensuring successful delivery and value realization
- Project Change Control and Measure Performance, Project Risk and Issue Management, and adherence to PMO Standards, Processes, and Tools
- Strong ability to engage others in the attainment of the vision for…
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