Who Our Client Is:

Our client brings industry communities together to solve supply-chain problems through the adoption and implementation of their standards. More than 340,000 businesses in 25 industries rely on our client for trading-partner collaboration and for maximizing the cost effectiveness, speed, visibility, security, and sustainability of their business processes. They achieve these benefits through solutions based on their global unique numbering and identification systems, bar codes, Electronic Product Code-based RFID, data synchronization, and electronic information exchange.

What Our Client Needs:

Our client is looking for a Sr. Director, Enterprise Program Management (EPMO). As the Sr. Director of EPMO, your experience in portfolio management, business planning, and program management processes mixed with our client's world-class culture and history of investing in their products have the potential to make a huge impact on the way the world does business. If you have been thinking about making a change and are looking for a place where your leadership and work will be felt by an entire organization (or more), then this company is the place for you.

Who You Are:

You are an energetic enterprise leader with a strong understanding of Agile principles related to portfolio management, business planning, and program management. You are an expert at your job but can zoom out and understand business imperatives. You are great at process but what drives you is business strategy and results. You love being a transformational leader

You thrive in an environment where you can collaborate with multiple functions and business leaders to deliver business results. Working with senior management comes naturally to you.

You are comfortable dealing with technology projects and programs and enjoy working with product & technology functions and connecting them with other parts of the business.

You are passionate about using your experience to lead an organization in how it approaches the prioritization of competing initiatives and how it executes the business planning process. You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves and provide hands on execution when needed.

You are an inspiring leader of your team, motivating and supporting them to be strong business partners. You are a person your team trusts and loves to work with.

You have 15+ years of relevant experience in project and portfolio management and have demonstrated results delivering business value in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models. A plus if this experience includes business and/or agile transformation.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you are willing to challenge the status quo in a highly collaborative manner.

What You’ll Do:

In short - You will lead the Enterprise PMO function of the company. As its leader, you will work with stakeholders to align strategy to execution through continuous business planning and strategic programs/ key initiatives and will be responsible for effective program & project delivery through the EPMO. You’ll also be a thought leader in maturing how the company adopts Agile principles, particularly as they apply to modernizing our business planning process into a more iterative, continuous process. 

Here are a few other details:

• This role is both a people management position that requires the ability to lead through people, and a senior individual contributor that expects to be hands on in the execution of portfolio management operations
• Lead the introduction of Agile principles to portfolio management, business planning, program execution, and functional areas beyond Product and Technology
• Partner with Technology & Product Management functions
• Responsible for Program/Project delivery and continuous improvement of Enterprise PMO templates and tools
• This role will manage a team of 3 direct reports and a total of 7 team members currently

Travel:

• Presence in the Ewing, NJ office will be required for 4-8 days a month, which may necessitate travel if the candidate is not based locally

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s highly preferred 
• 15+ years of relevant experience in project / Program portfolio management
• 10+ years of relevant experience in business application software delivery lifecycle / SaaS
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional project teams in the delivery of enterprise solutions
• People management of project management staff
• PMP certification required, PfMP certification a plus
• SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) certification preferred
• Lean or Lean Six Sigma certification a plus
• Demonstrated results delivering business value in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models
• Agile transformation experience preferred
• Supply chain and B2B eCommerce experience a plus

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Thinks big picture and understands potential risks and impacts of decisions
• Strong organization, planning, project, and portfolio management skills 
• Skilled in change management associated with business process / agile transformations
• Knowledge of solution/product lifecycles and methodologies including new program and product launches as well as iterative release schedules 
• Must be a strong team player that is able to work across the organization to prioritize initiatives, build consensus, and lead teams to deliver value in pursuit of enterprise business objectives
• Ability to balance the need for project controls and rigor with the need to be flexible in tailoring approaches to specific project challenges and expectations of Business Leaders
• Comfortable managing multiple, concurrent, strategic initiatives
• Proactive, self-motivated, and delivers on commitments with minimal direct supervision
• Extremely thorough and detail oriented
• Ability to manage relationships through influence and diplomacy 
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and listening communication skills 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft Project

What They Offer:

• A hybrid work environment in their Ewing, NJ
• 26 days of PTO
• Ten company holidays
• Immediate and Automatic contribution to 401K
• Elite Medical coverage 
• Access to LinkedIn Learning

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.