PMO Manager - Tampa, FL

With over $2B in revenue, 80+ manufacturing facilities across 6 continents and over 9,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of transit packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products in transit. Signode brings this extensive product portfolio together under hundreds of trusted brands to offer complete transit packaging solutions to its customers.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These commercial packaging products are used to pack, bundle, unitize, protect and secure goods during warehousing and transit. Our company is a materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transit Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to go to market as Signode and to share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that make us the world's premier end-of-line packaging company.

Benefits:

Signode offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes health, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, life insurance, wellness perks, and more. Benefits begin the month following the hire date.

Salary:

$145,500 - $174,500 + 15% Bonus Target

Summary:

The PMO Manager is a key driver in improving, maintaining, and supporting the standard processes and tools needed to enable the IT organization's efforts to deliver projects and programs to the enterprise. The position will work directly with project stakeholders, including project/program managers, IT directors/managers, and business sponsors, to coach, advise, and drive the adoption of standard project tools, processes, and methodologies to ensure that projects are managed and sponsored to achieve a successful outcome and drive value to the organization. They will need to anticipate and manage issues and risks effectively. They will be responsible for managing the resources capacity planning process, working in collaboration with IT leaders to address the defining, acquiring, allocating, and optimizing resources across all projects, improving demand management, and increasing the visibility of our capacity planning efforts. To succeed, the PMO Governance Manager must have a high level of strategic and organizational awareness.

Essential Functions:

• Be an advocate for the mission and vision of the PMO organization to foster a project-management-oriented culture and mindset among the PMO stakeholders and organizational leadership
• Engages IT senior leadership to define the PMO mission, goals, and operating model and establish the PMO charter
• Leads the identification and development of PMO roles, team configuration, and recruitment appropriate to deliver the agreed-upon PMO goals and objectives
• Works with the Global Director to define, manage, and direct the needed end-to-end PMO work effort, leveraging best practices and techniques in identifying, quantifying, and tracking portfolio, program, and project performance, including realizing expected benefits defined in business cases
• Leads the identification and implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines, and standards to establish a stable framework that supports all project teams and stakeholders to improve the probability of successful project delivery
• Provides ongoing coaching and mentoring to PMO staff and project managers, including training on PPM tools
• Builds and maintains relationships with IT senior leadership and key PMO stakeholders and acts as a trusted advisor
• Regularly reviews and evaluates opportunities to improve the project management best practices to achieve higher maturity in PPM
• Leads the establishment of a project management community of practice to facilitate collaboration and best practice sharing among project managers and key PMO stakeholders
• Coordinate the onboarding and configuration of additional business areas to utilize Signode's PPM Tool for managing projects and resources, creating a foundation for project visibility and coordination across the enterprise
• Manage the IT Governance process to drive the effectiveness of project validation, prioritization, execution, and delivery of those managing projects and enabling agreed-upon objectives to be met
• Provide the framework to standardize project/program/portfolio information for visibility and reporting at various levels of the organization, including managing project timelines, basic project status reports, and executive portfolio overviews

Education:

Bachelor's or master's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or MIS or equivalent experience

Experience:

• 10+ Years of demonstrated experience in project or program management
• Experience setting up and leading a PMO, including Referenceable PMO leadership capabilities
• Experience implementing and managing a PPM tool, preferably Changepoint or Planview
• Significant prior experience in addressing business and IT activities associated with project management

Functional Success Drivers: These competencies are what we require for an individual to be successful in this role.

• Detailed Oriented
• Organizational Agility
• Process Management
• Training and Development
• Conflict Management

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities.

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.

Signode Industrial Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.