PMO Center of Excellence Lead

Location: Salt Lake City, Fargo, Denver, or Phoenix preferred

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Typical Day in the Life

The PMO Director leads the Project Management Center of Excellence (CoE) within a federated delivery model, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic alignment across all project execution efforts. This role is responsible for defining and evolving project management standards, training, enabling and coaching project managers (embedded across multiple service-lines), and driving continuous improvement, clear expectations, and collaboration across delivery practices. The PMO Director partners closely with Practice and Technical Delivery Leads to ensure project outcomes align with business goals, profitability targets, and client satisfaction. This role is planned to be fully billable in a project management capacity through May 2026 to support in-depth learning of the Eide Bailly tech consulting business, our systems and processes. At that point, the role will convert to 50% billable, with the remaining time dedicated to PMO CoE duties.

• Define and evolve project management frameworks, tools, and standards tailored to a federated delivery model.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to Practice Leads and Technical Delivery Leads on all project management functions (ex. project governance, risk mitigation, and delivery optimization)
• Lead the onboarding, training, and professional development of embedded project managers across practices, leveraging, centralizing, advocating, & improving existing training programs & content
• Establish a governance model that ensures compliance with delivery standards while allowing flexibility for practice-specific needs
• Facilitate cross-practice collaboration and knowledge sharing between PMs reporting up through multiple separate practices/service-lines to promote consistency and innovation in project delivery
• Champion the use of AI and automation tools to streamline project management processes
• Improve forecasting accuracy of project manager utilization & billing
• Implement portfolio performance reporting to monitor project health, delivery outcomes, and team capacity
• Ensure, oversee, & validate that PMs are following cross-practice standards & enable direct managers & practice leads of federated PMs to do the same for the PMs in their respective practices.
• Develop and mentor program managers to handle complex, cross functional projects that may span multiple service lines

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in project and program management, including leadership of PMO functions
• Proven success in client-facing roles within client-facing, billable, technology consulting professional services
• Demonstrated fluency in project management frameworks (Scope, risk, change, schedule, financials) with proven application in engagements
• Confident in navigating difficult discussions around scope, risk and adherence to agreed plans both internally and externally
• Experience managing complex, multi-workstream engagements and transformation initiatives
• Experience with AI-driven project management tools and digital transformation initiatives
• Experience in project management across fixed-fee, time and materials, and subscription models
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and influencing consistency across a team/organization
• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, liberal arts, or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies
• Strong leadership and influencing skills across non-direct reporting relationships
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, executive communication, and conflict resolution
• Expertise in portfolio management, including prioritization frameworks and risk management
• Familiarity with organizational change management and stakeholder alignment in complex environments
• Ability to balance standardization with flexibility to meet diverse practice needs
• Skilled at balancing client satisfaction with firm profitability, including managing scope creep, enforcing change orders and driving project utilization

Must be authorized to work in the United States now or in the future without visa sponsorship.

Benefits and Compensation

Our compensation philosophy emphasizes competitive and equitable pay. Eide Bailly complies with all local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Final compensation decisions are dependent upon factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and internal equity.

Salary Range: $160,000 - $180,000

Beyond base salary, Eide Bailly provides benefits such as: generous paid time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) profit sharing, life and disability insurance, lifestyle spending account, certification incentives, education assistance, and a referral program.

What to Expect Next

We'll be in touch! If you look like the right fit for our position, one of our recruiters will be reaching out to schedule a phone interview with you to learn more about your career interests and goals. In the meantime, we encourage you to check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn or our About Us page.