Director, Enterprise PMO

Job Description

Job Summary:

Provides leadership for Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) and is responsible for driving consistent project, program, and portfolio management practices across the organization. Partners with business and functional leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are effectively governed, prioritized, planned, and executed to achieve desired business outcomes. Oversees enterprise portfolio governance, resource planning, project delivery standards, and performance reporting. Provides leadership and direction to project managers and PMO professionals while serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on project execution, portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and business value realization.

This role is based in our Deerfield, IL office and is on‑site four days a week.

Job Responsibilities:

Leads and manages the Enterprise PMO, ensuring effective governance, processes, tools, methodologies, and standards are consistently applied across the organization.

Oversees the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, providing transparency into project performance, milestones, risks, dependencies, resource requirements, and expected business outcomes.

Partners with business leaders, functional executives, Finance, Technology, and Operations to align project investments with strategic priorities and organizational objectives.

Facilitates portfolio governance processes, including project intake, prioritization, funding recommendations, stage-gate reviews, and executive decision-making forums.

Establishes and maintains portfolio reporting, executive dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics that provide actionable insights to leadership.

Drives proactive management of enterprise risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change impacts to improve project outcomes and reduce delivery risk.

Collaborates with business leaders to develop business cases, project roadmaps, implementation plans, and value realization measures for strategic initiatives.

Oversees project and program resource planning activities, ensuring effective allocation of internal and external resources across prioritized initiatives.

Leads continuous improvement efforts to enhance project delivery capabilities, portfolio management maturity, governance practices, and organizational effectiveness.

Ensures projects and programs adhere to established methodologies, compliance requirements, financial controls, and quality standards.

Supports annual planning processes and collaborates with Finance to manage project financials, budgets, forecasts, and investment tracking.

Develops, mentors, and leads PMO team members through performance management, coaching, career development, and succession planning activities.

Builds strong relationships across business functions to foster collaboration, alignment, accountability, and successful execution of enterprise priorities.

Serves as a strategic partner to senior leaders by providing recommendations and insights that improve portfolio performance and accelerate value delivery.

About Walgreens Founded in 1901, Walgreens () proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

External Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in project management, program management, portfolio management, business transformation, strategy execution, operations, finance, or…