Associate Director - Program PMO Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the program's PMO framework, including processes, procedures, templates, roles and responsibilities, and meeting and reporting cadence, across all program workstreams.
• Deploy GFD enterprise project management standards, playbooks, and stage-gate processes at the program level.
• Own program-level reporting; provide clear, concise updates to program and senior leadership with transparency on progress, risks, issues, and financial performance.
• Prepare the program for stage-gate reviews, funding decisions, and governance forums, and track resulting actions and decisions to closure.
• Own the program risk and issue registers; drive identification, quantification, mitigation, and escalation on a defined cadence.
• Operate program change control so that scope, cost, and schedule changes are assessed, approved, and baselined through a single disciplined process.
• Partner with the Global Portfolio Controls Office and program controls staff to ensure integrated cost and schedule performance measurement is in place, current, and trusted.
• Ensure program cost, schedule, and forecast data reconciles to portfolio reporting and stands up to Finance review and audit.
• Cross-Functional Coordination & Decision Support: Coordinate delivery across engineering, construction, commissioning and qualification, and quality workstreams; surface interdependencies and constraints early. Facilitate communication among program stakeholders and drive timely decision-making so the program delivers within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Resource Planning & Capability Lead program resource planning and forecasting across internal staff, contingent resources, and service providers; identify gaps ahead of demand. Build project management capability within the program through onboarding, coaching, and consistent application of the PMO framework.
• Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Maintain program processes, project controls, and documentation in compliance with GMP and other applicable regulatory standards. Drive continuous improvement using program performance data and lessons learned, and feed those lessons back to the central PMO for enterprise adoption.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of project or program management experience on large, capital-intensive projects, including accountability for PMO framework, program governance, or project controls.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery teams (engineering, construction, commissioning and qualification, and quality) to deliver within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Ability to travel, both within and outside the US as required, approximately 10% expected.