Vice President of PMO

The VP PMO Center of Excellence (COE) provides enterprise leadership for governance, methodology, visibility, forecasting, strategic planning, capability development, and continuous improvement of project delivery across A&I. The role establishes the operating framework used across Project Management, HMI and PLC Application Engineering, and Field Service to improve project predictability, resource planning, execution discipline, financial performance, and customer outcomes.

The PMO COE serves as the central source of standards, tools, portfolio intelligence, project governance, and capability development for A&I project delivery. The VP PMO partners with the Regional Vice Presidents, Operations Managers, Project Managers, Application Engineering leaders, Field Service leaders, and other functional stakeholders to provide leadership with consistent visibility into portfolio health, resource demand, project risk, and execution performance.

The PMO COE establishes how project delivery is governed and measured while regional and functional leaders remain accountable for execution, people leadership, and business results.

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve A&I's project governance framework across Project Management, HMI and PLC Application Engineering, and Field Service
• Define project lifecycle requirements, governance checkpoints, stage gates, escalation criteria, project health standards, and required documentation
• Establish appropriate governance requirements based on project size, complexity, risk, customer requirements, and strategic importance
• Monitor adherence to established governance standards and identify areas requiring corrective action or additional support
• Establish clear accountability and escalation protocols for financial, schedule, resource, technical, quality, and customer risks
• Partner with regional and functional leadership to drive accountability for governance compliance without replacing operational ownership

• Develop and maintain standardized portfolio reporting across A&I

• Establish common definitions, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting requirements to provide leadership with reliable visibility into portfolio performance
• Ensure leadership has consistent, timely, and actionable visibility into project health, financial performance, schedule performance, backlog, resource demand, customer risk, quality, and other key portfolio indicators.
• Identify portfolio-level trends, systemic risks, recurring execution challenges, and emerging opportunities
• Provide actionable insights and recommendations to A&I President and regional leadership based on portfolio data
• Continuously improve reporting quality, accuracy, consistency, and usability

• Design and facilitate a standardized project health review process across A&I
• Establish criteria for determining project health and identifying projects requiring enhanced oversight or intervention
• Facilitate periodic portfolio reviews and targeted reviews of high-risk, high-value, strategic, or underperforming projects
• Partner with Project Managers, Operations Managers, and functional leaders to identify root causes, corrective actions, owners, and timelines
• Track significant risks and corrective actions through resolution and elevate unresolved systemic or business-critical issues to appropriate leadership
• Capture trends and lessons learned from project reviews to improve future project execution

• Provide leadership for A&I’s integrated resource forecasting methodology across Project Management, HMI/PLC Application Engineering, and Field Service
• Establish enterprise standards and methodologies for forecasting resource demand based on backlog, project schedules, pipeline, project complexity, and anticipated business needs
• Consolidate regional and functional resource forecasts to provide enterprise visibility into current and future capacity
• Identify projected resource constraints, excess capacity, capability gaps, and competing priorities
• Partner with Regional Vice Presidents, Operations Managers, and functional leaders to develop resource scenarios and recommendations
• Provide data and analysis to support hiring, workforce planning, outsourcing, cross-regional resource sharing, and other capacity decisions
• Monitor forecast accuracy and continuously improve resource-planning practices

• Establish an integrated planning framework that…