Director, Technical Project Management

Reporting

Location:

Chicago - 345 North Morgan

$175,000 - $210,000

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

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WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Director, Technical Program Management will sit within our Corporate Technology team.

As a Director, Technical Program Management, you will manage strategic technology initiatives across Corporate Technology, partnering with business stakeholders, Corporate Technology leaders, project managers, and delivery teams to turn ideas into measurable outcomes. You'll drive complex, cross-functional programs from planning through implementation while establishing the standards, tools, and governance that enable consistent delivery across teams.

The programs you will lead span [ERP and finance systems], [HR and workplace platforms], [cloud and infrastructure modernization], [data and analytics], and [cybersecurity]. You will need enough technical depth to challenge architecture and integration decisions, pressure-test estimates and sequencing, and hold engineering and vendor teams to a credible plan. You will not be writing code, but you will be expected to understand the systems, the integration surface, and the trade-offs well enough to make the call.

Leading a team of four Project Managers and Resource Analysts, and accountable for a portfolio of approximately
10-20 concurrent programs representing roughly 30M in annual technology spend, this role combines hands-on project and program execution with leadership visibility, giving you the opportunity to influence key decisions, guide project teams, improve delivery practices, and provide stakeholders and Corporate Technology leadership with a clear view of project health, risks, dependencies, and progress. If you thrive on solving complex problems, driving accountability, and bringing structure and clarity to large-scale technology initiatives, you'll make a significant impact in this role.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN YEAR ONE

In your first 90 days, you will have assessed the current portfolio, delivery practices, and reporting, and delivered a prioritized plan for where governance and execution need to improve.

By six months, a single trusted view of portfolio health is live and in use in executive forums — status, risk, dependency, and budget reporting that Corporate Technology leadership actually makes decisions from.

By twelve months, on-time and on-budget delivery has measurably improved across the portfolio, the Project Manager team is stronger and more capable, and program standards are consistently followed rather than nominally adopted.

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