Senior Manager Project Management Office - East Coast Remote

The ADM Business Unit (BU) focuses on the development and continued sustaining of products in the fields of Aerospace, Space, Defense, and Marine Oil & Gas. The Project Management Office is a focal point within the Engineering function, providing strategy and execution excellence leadership in Project Management for the group. The main area of responsibility covered by the team is Project and Portfolio Leadership over new Technology/Product Development, Productivity, and Business Process Improvement projects.

The Senior Manager PMO reports to the Director CTO Excellence

Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware, or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required before releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

Job Scope

Strategy

• Create a transformation plan to mature the existing PMO and develop world class methodologies and behaviours,
• Lead the PMO organization through New Product Introductions (NPI), including all phases of product development and launch,
• Develop improvement strategies that will reduce costs, control resource expenditure and drive business growth,
• Partner with cross-functional organisations across the BU to align strategies in all areas of responsibility to maximise business growth potential and ensure parallel and complimentary transformation,
• Provide advice and technical knowledge to the wider organisation on all areas of industry standard and best in class performance criteria for their areas of responsibility,
• Define suitable KPIs to monitor progress against targets.

Execution

• Focus the team on capabilities to accelerate product time-to-market and effective cost management, this position needs to demonstrate the ability to continuously improve portfolio planning efficiency and project execution excellence,
• Act as a lean champion and innovative thought leader, focusing on driving standardization, simplification, and digitalization for and across the project and portfolio management lifecycle.
• Partner with commercial teams to develop sophisticated systems for project sizing, selection, and opportunity management,
• Drive the capture of resource data to provide efficient mechanisms to understand resource utilisation and future expenditure and drive resource based decisions,
• Implement a robust analytics infrastructure across end-to-end product development lifecycle, extracting data from appropriate systems to provide real-time actionable insights on product development and continuous improvement efficiency and effectiveness.

Talent

• Create a people strategy to support continued growth and business continuity,
• Optimise the team structure aligned to changing business need and continued growth,
• Create mechanisms to:
• Define competency requirements for all roles within the group to support development and succession planning,
• Impartially manage performance, reward, and benefits,
• Provide Coaching and Mentorship opportunities for the Engineering Excellence and PMO team,
• Develop communication and employee engagement strategies,
• Co-ordinate professional development opportunities within the wider engineering organisation to support the development of a high performing, engaged workforce, capable of scaling in line with business growth.
  

What your background should look like:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills:

• Market awareness: Strong business acumen with a thorough understanding of the interdependencies across the cross-functional groups key to new product development activities.
• Technically proficient in all aspects of project and portfolio management
• Change Agent: Innovates to create productivity, commits to change across the organization, identifies opportunities to streamline, and removes barriers to execution.
• Bias for Action: Drives Ownership, and problem-solving, and delivers results.
• Collaborator and Influencer: with a proven track record of forging excellent relationships across organizations and with senior leadership.
• Pace and Passion: Ability to work in a fast-paced, global results focused matrix environment,
• Team-Builder: With high cross-cultural awareness, strong listening skills, an empowering style, and a commitment to performance/professional development.
• Agility and Resilience: Embeds a winning culture that is responsive and adaptable to change, collaborative yet accountable, ensuring the right example is set.

The ideal candidate will have had the following experience/qualifications:

• 10+ years of leadership in a multi-national, product, and technology development environment with a preference for experience in either or a combination of PMO, Engineering leadership or Business Transformation.
• Track record of delivering consistent and demonstrable year-over-year improvements aligned to business strategy,
• Experience defining and scaling PMO process excellence programs, tools, and initiatives,
• Experience in Agile Product Development and combination waterfall/agile Project Management
  

Competencies