Director of PMO Excellence; Local to Chicago

Full-time

Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing national IT Consulting and Executive Search company in the United States, which was founded in 2011 by Mark McGee, the President and CEO. Sonoma Consulting has two business divisions - IT Consulting Services & Executive Search to serve its 150 national clients which range from entrepreneurial start-ups to Global Fortune 500.

The PMO Center of Excellence (COE) Director will be responsible for a variety of different areas. Their goal is to develop a PMO COE operating model, then drive delivery execution using COE capabilities around methods and tools, training, benefits tracking, integration management, and resource management across the portfolio. They will be responsible for establishing leading practice program management methodology and integrated toolset to drive standardization, repeatable processes, and consistent behaviors across all program and project managers.

This person will establish standardization and repeatable processes by developing a PM operating model to determine how to staff each type of project, depending on complexity, size, and duration. The COE Director will also be responsible for defining and deploying training for all program, project and portfolio managers to align on methodology and operating model.

This person will work closely with the Senior Director of PMO on demand management and staffing, making recommendations on PM assignments both in-house as well as through the vendor pool based on requests skill set needs. They will also assist in strengthening the partnerships with functions such as enterprise architecture, organizational change management, business relationship managers, continuous improvement and other regional PMOs.

Finally, this person serves as the strategic arm of functions seeking innovation and continuous improvement opportunities with a goal of increasing the value of services the function provides to its consumers and the function’s brand across the organization.

• Design, develop and manage the portfolio/program/project operating model and COE organization structure
• Develop and drive portfolio/program/project management best practices and standards that will improve productivity, investment decision making and realize targeted business outcomes.
• Responsible for the development and delivery of 3-year PMO roadmap
• Responsible for the development and management of program related benefits and business value across the enterprise
• Responsible for developing and executing a high degree of financial discipline across the COE and portfolio of projects.
• Conduct and prepare for steering level meetings and readouts
• Defines and ensures use of standard methodologies, processes, PPM tools and reporting metrics (KPIs).
• Tracks portfolio related status, issues, risks and dependencies.
• Pursues issue and risk resolution and communicates status and escalations to business stakeholders and operational management.
• Provides leadership the recommended resolution and/or escalation of issues that may impact project scope, schedule or budget.
• Develops a set of executive and team related dashboards to communicate up and down the organization the status of the portfolio.
• Monitors the integration of rationalization, enterprise and business architecture efforts across the PMO portfolio
• Manages the design authority and change control functions of the PMO portfolio
• Manages the intake and demand management function and maintains the capital and expense budgets across the program portfolio
• Tracks, monitors and manages resource and capacity management conflicts and demands.
• Oversees the coordination and delivery of program plans, WBS structures and…