The IT Director, Program Management, will be responsible for elevating our strategy to accelerate organic growth and margin expansion by driving Portfolio Management Excellence. This position will support active portfolio management projects across the Sherwin-Williams enterprise that deliver by waterfall methodology. The IT Director, Program Management must be able to effectively lead and influence teams to drive priorities across all business functions and deliver on time and on budget.
- As the IT Director Program Management, you will be responsible for managing a team of project managers and overseeing all aspects of projects within multiple business units to ensure timelines and budgets are being met with a high standard of quality
Agile knowledge and implementation experience to help all those initiatives / projects that currently operate in waterfall but are in the transition journey to agile
Ability to lead and support initiatives / projects of complex nature that requires both waterfall and agile ways of working considerations and tool ecosystemActively partner with other cross-functional leaders especially Director, Agile Team and Agile Product Delivery to collaborate initiatives that are partially traditional and agileYou will influence all levels of operations to drive culture and performance improvementDirectly oversee and support a portfolio of projects being implemented in the enterpriseManages resource allocation for project work as well as manages hiring and staffing plans according to budget to ensure the project work can be performed successfully and works to ensure projects are allocated based on experience and development opportunitiesBuild relationships across the enterprise to be able to effectively remove roadblocks in the delivery project requirementsDevelops clear and concise change management strategies and assist with bringing all team members along in the change management plan of actionDevelops and implements best practices and tools to increase efficiency, boost productivity, and achieve project and business goalsBuilds rapport and strong working relationships with internal and external customers to handle escalations based on resources constraints, process questions and exceptions neededTrack and report overall progress of all projects in your assigned portfolio to the executive leadership internally and external customerDesign, develop, implement and improve processes for the enterprise project management officeImplement and manage project governance standards for project delivery across the enterpriseThis position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.
This position has a hybrid work schedule with three days in the office and the option for working remotely two days.
Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and / or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.
FORMAL EDUCATION :
Required :Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
Preferred :Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)Certified Scrum Master (CSM)Certified Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE :
Required :12 years IT or business experience
8 years of experience managing direct reports8 years of experience in program management8 years of experience in portfolio managementStrong understanding of product development methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Lean, Waterfall).Strong presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentorship experience.Experience working with large, small, remote and collocated agile delivery and / or product teams and or project teams.Experience in the Systems, DevOps tools, cloud technologies, JIRA, Microsoft Tool Suite used in project / product / agile team execution
