Director, Program Management

Department Overview

The Global Finance Modernization PMO Lead provides direction and leadership enterprise wide over the project and program management for the integrated Global Finance Modernization program, leading to drive orderly and timely project execution and delivery. The PMO Lead oversees the program and integrated project/work plan, coordinating assets and activities across all workstreams and adjacent programs.

Global Finance Modernization is an extensive global project covering all areas of finance and its related operating model. The Global PMO Lead partners with the 3rd party vendor Solution PMO Lead to administer and operate within different project management areas, specifically ensuring the tracking and completion of activities within the client team.

Duties

Key Responsibilities

· Work with SI Program management ‘as a two in the box’ to provide directional leadership, establish program and project strategy, approach, workstreams and overall structure and timeline for the extensive set of initiatives.

· Ensure the program is operating to plan, proactively identifying risk and issues, and engaging the right parties to mitigate risk and resolve issues.

· Establish and facilitate program governance and project status forums, ensuring all parties are apprised of actions and decisions.

· Accountable for leading a multi-year, enterprise-wide extensive set of initiatives using a team of experienced program managers, market resources, and functional subject matter experts assigned to the initiative.

· Coordinate and engage with leadership and key cross-workstream internal partners (e.g., Work Councils representative, Translation Service partner) to streamline interactions while maintaining line of sight to dependencies required for success.

· Direct implementation and reinforcement of project management methodology

· Advise leadership and/or business executives at the highest levels about the initiative, using the standard status and communication reporting processes.

· Provide project workplan management support, keeping track of plans, budget, quality standards, deliverables, and dependencies.

· Track and monitor project risks, metrics, reporting and project Finance issue management.

· Facilitation of internal and external meetings along with collaborator management

· Monitoring of relationships and dependencies between project areas and active improvement submission

· Lead a team of project support managers and specialist(s)

· Organize project resource management, ensuring the proper onboarding /offboarding of program team members, and maintaining adherence to relevant security, data, and access policies in alignment with McDonald’s Data and Security Governance Standards

· Build communication materials for McDonald’s Leadership that shows the progress of the project and potential barriers

Qualifications

· 10+ years of prior program and project management experience leading large scale, global integrated transformation programs, preferably in Finance

· Leadership, Planning and Execution overseeing the initiative and provides direction and leadership to the team ensuring successful delivery and value realization.

· Collaborator Management & Communication Planning for the organization

· Project Change Control and Measure Performance, Project Risk and Issue Management, and adherence to PMO Standards, Processes, and Tools

· Strong ability to engage others in the attainment of the vision for the future. Influences others by enthusiastically sharing the future vision as a means for them to attain their goals

· Strong ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies in order to assess potential partnership and commitment to the program

· Strong ability to develop collaborative relationships to achieve results through win-win relationships

· Multi-team project plans development using project management software

· Strong, professional communication skills, with ability to engage with senior managers using appropriate level of detail, terminology, and style

· Uses influence to drive decision making and find resolutions

· PMP Certification or equivalent experience. Agile Certification strongly recommended (e.g. PSM, CSM, etc.)

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.

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