Technical PMO Lead

Overview

A global manufacturing company is seeking a highly skilled IT PMO Lead to join their team. Working within the enterprise IT organization, this individual will be responsible for standing up and running the PMO program. The ideal candidate should have proven experience establishing and running an enterprise PMO, should have experience with continuous and process improvement initiatives, and should have a strong overall background in IT project and program management.

This is an immediate, full-time role, and will require 4 days a week onsite in Wilmington, DE.

• PMO Leadership & Operations:
  Establish and run the IT PMO, including charter, methodology, standards, and core processes.
• Operate intake, prioritization, readiness review, and governance routines with continuous improvement.
• Maintain the enterprise IT portfolio with visibility into health, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and strategic alignment.
• Provide decision-ready portfolio insights for IT leadership and governance forums.
• In collaboration with the Responsible AI manager and IT strategy team, embed Responsible AI governance by ensuring intake and governance workflows include RAI criteria (risk classification, privacy, fairness, compliance checks) as relevant.
• Tight coordination with Enterprise Architecture for tech fit, standards, reusable patterns, and architecture runway alignment.
• Partnership with Cybersecurity for risk reviews, security gating, privacy checkpoints, etc. Partner across IT for risk, regulatory impact and tracking business value.
• Maintaining delivery quality frameworks (SDLC alignment, documentation completeness, testing readiness, cutover plans).
• Create yearly and multi-year IT PMO roadmap of delivery and value. Also create multiyear IT roadmap of PMO maturity
• Collaborate with CIO, IT strategy lead and Finance to manage OpEx, Cap Ex investments to track project costs, project benefits realization and value tracking

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise IT Project and Program Management (infrastructure, application development, data science, networking, etc.)
• Proven experience establishing, formalizing, and standing up an enterprise PMO and experience implementing continuous improvement efforts
• Strong experience with enterprise project management tools and reporting tools (co-pilot, power automate, power BI, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Very strong communication skills (written and verbal) and experience working with both technical and functional stakeholders and leadership