Technology Program & Governance Manager

GM Performance Power Units - Concord, NC
Technology Program & Governance Manager - Onsite

Job Summary
GM Performance Power Units is seeking an experienced Technology Program & Governance Manager to join our Digital Technology team. This role is responsible for leading and coordinating a portfolio of technology initiatives across multiple functional disciplines.
The successful candidate will act as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders, technology teams, suppliers, and procurement functions, ensuring projects are well-defined, governed, and aligned with organizational objectives.
This is a highly visible role requiring strong stakeholder management, business analysis capability, programme governance expertise, and the ability to deliver a variety of business-critical technology solutions.

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of technology projects and programmes, managing multiple concurrent initiatives with varying levels of complexity and business impact.
• Establish project plans, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Track delivery progress and provide regular status reporting to stakeholders, leadership, and executives, ensuring delivery risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated.
• Facilitate and support Steering Committees, project boards, and stakeholder review meetings.

• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to gather, analyse, and document high-quality business requirements, functional specifications, process maps, and supporting documentation.
• Translate business needs into clear and actionable requirements for technical delivery teams.
• Support solution evaluation and option assessments where required.

• Act as a key liaison between technology teams, procurement, and external suppliers, supporting vendor selection, RFP/RFQ processes, contract reviews, and commercial evaluations.
• Monitor supplier performance against agreed deliverables, milestones, and service commitments.
• Help coordinate third-party resources and ensure effective integration with internal teams.

• Build strong relationships across business and all technology functions.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical specialists, business leaders, and external partners.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and drive alignment on priorities, scope, and delivery outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor for project governance, delivery practices, and business change.

• Promote project management best practices, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of PMO processes, templates, and reporting.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritisation activities across the Digital Technology function.

• Own and continuously improve the technology change governance framework, ensuring changes are planned, assessed, approved, and implemented in a controlled manner.
• Coordinate change review activities, maintaining visibility of technology changes, dependencies, risks, and impacts across Digital Technology teams, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate change governance forums and ensure appropriate operational, security, technical, and business approvals are obtained prior to implementation.
• Drive effective communication, reporting, and organisational readiness activities to maximise the successful adoption and delivery of technology change.

• Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes and projects, with strong risk, issue, budget, and dependency management capability.
• Strong business analysis and requirements gathering skills.
• Experience working across diverse technology domains, such as infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development, enterprise applications, ERP, PLM, data, and analytics.
• Experience running governance forums, steering committees, change control forums and programme reviews, with a demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders and executive audiences.
• Experience…