Enterprise Program Management Office Director

About the position

A leading podcast and audiobook company is seeking an Enterprise Program Management Office Director. The successful candidate will use the entire PMP toolkit, and be capable of performing both strategic and tactical work that involves masterfully managing the lifecycle of a complex set of initiatives for the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO). The Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO), is a centralized enabler function responsible for leading complex and highly strategic company programs that require significant enterprise-wide cross-functional coordination. The ideal candidate has an innate ability to problem solve and organize through ambiguity and be able to deliver most work independently with limited guidance from EPMO teammates. This role has high visibility and will require working globally across all the company, marketplaces, and corporate teams.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise-wide coordination of multiple complex and strategic company programs with a high degree of ambiguity and constant evolution, connecting the dots across workstreams to enable high-quality and on-time delivery of outcomes.
• Manage an assigned portfolio of the most critical projects and programs regardless of topic or prior experience. Projects are a mix of short-term (6 months or less) and long-term.
• Demonstrate a willingness to roll up your sleeves and work shoulder to shoulder with your teams, taking on tasks that may not traditionally fall into activities considered project management, in order to better understand the work or unblock the team.
• Drive continuous clarity with program teams as business and/or program strategy definition evolves over time.
• Work across the company, applying broad strategic influence, continuously unblocking teams, and aligning teams toward simple, coherent approaches.
• Help teams make trade-offs between short-term and long-term needs and ensure teams are able to find a path forward in difficult situations.
• Run and manage the business cadence of programs (meetings, planning, reviews) as needed, driving detailed discussions, high-level alignment, and complex decisions.
• Regularly produce detailed verbal and written communications of high fidelity, at both executive and team levels, including taking and sending meeting notes when needed.
• Strive to continuously improve, streamline, eliminate excess processes, drive efficiencies, and create standardization of work when possible.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience owning 2 or more concurrent complex programs and end-to-end delivery with multiple workstreams.
• Experience contributing to major company initiatives and development of business strategies.
• Experience working directly with C-suite executives including independently building and leading presentations, facilitating and participating in discussions, and providing key inputs to strategic decisions is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Active PMP, PRINCE2, Lean/Six Sigma, Agile Certified practitioner are preferred.
• A global thinker with experience working on initiatives involving teams around the world is preferred.
• A highly organized individual with strong time management, problem-solving, and team facilitation skills is preferred.
• Highly proactive with an ability to work with cross-functional teams under tight deadlines is preferred.
• Sound business judgment, leading with data, and being comfortable making quick decisions are preferred.
• Strong influencing skills to create harmony and build consensus around customer needs without direct authority are preferred.
• A compelling storyteller with exceptional written and verbal skills to communicate to an executive audience is preferred.
• Able to follow rigorous standards but flexible enough to balance which of your own activities and stakeholder commitments are most important across your entire portfolio of projects is preferred.
• A high level of curiosity or passion for learning about new products, people, and market segments is preferred.
• Eagerness to dive deep, participate in healthy debate, and align differing viewpoints around the best path forward is preferred.
• Willingness to voice tough questions and offer solutions, knowing that your ideas and experience are valid but are also only starting points for learning more from your subject matter experts is preferred.
• Readiness to stretch yourself by saying yes to assignments outside of your experience and comfort zone is preferred.
• Ability to rapidly understand the interworkings of complex systems and workflows among teams, with a driving need to understand not just when and by who the work must be performed but also the why and how is preferred.

Benefits

• Hourly pay: $70-$80/hr
• Worksite: Leading podcast and audiobook company (Newark, NJ - Hybrid, Must be onsite 2 days a week)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 9 Month Assignment