Director, PMO Enablement Lead
Date: Sep 12, 2025
Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607
Company: McDonald's Corporation
Company Description:
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.
At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.
Department Overview
The PMO Enablement Lead drives effective ways of working, shares best practices and implements process and tools that support effective delivery. The role will lead stakeholder management, drive effective demand management and enable a strong community of practice. This role provides support to the Governance and Integrated Planning leads as appropriate. The role emphasizes relationship and stakeholder management.
The PMO Enablement Lead is responsible for shaping and operationalizing the central PMO organization by establishing governance frameworks, defining and scaling consistent ways of working and partnering across transformation and market teams to align PMO capabilities with enterprise priorities. This role drives execution by managing roadmaps, enabling visibility into risks and dependencies and implementing best practices and tools that support effective delivery.
Duties
Primary Responsibilities
• Strategize processes and ways of working for central PMO organization and support mobilization activities
• Manage and maintain roadmap for central PMO organization standup, capability development and progressive inclusion of enterprise initiatives
• Ideate areas of partnership between central PMO organization and enterprise-wide initiatives
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks to ensure successful prioritization and delivery of initiatives given resource and funding availability
• Design and drive adoption of common ways of working across initiatives and markets alongside Horizontal COEs
• Ensure visibility into and actioning of risks, dependencies and issues as relevant
• Develop and maintain relationships with enterprise project managers to advise and support successful delivery
• Partner with transformation and market leads to ensure PMO capabilities are aligned with business priorities
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree required
- Critical thinking and analytical abilities
- Executive presence and presentation skills
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Familiarity with AI tools like Copilot (preferred)
- Experience leading governance activities (e.g., project management, compliance, risk management, etc.)
- Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills
Compensation
Bonus Eligible: Yes
Long - Term Incentive: Yes
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $168,350.00 - $218,860.00 per year
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.
Competencies
Additional Information:
Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.
Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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Nearest Major Market: Chicago