Director, IT Portfolio & PMO

About the role

The Director, IT Portfolio position is accountable for connecting IT strategy to execution through effective portfolio and investment management. This position ensures that IT work is prioritized, funded and sequenced in alignment with enterprise strategy and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own and actively manage the IT portfolio, ensuring work is aligned, prioritized, and funded in line with enterprise strategy
• Lead portfolio intake, prioritization, and trade-off decisions across initiatives
• Balance demand, capacity, and investment to optimize resource allocation and delivery outcomes
• Provide transparency into portfolio health, performance, risks, and investment effectiveness
• Drive integration across initiatives, ensuring alignment of roadmaps, dependencies, and sequencing
• Coordinate execution of enterprise programs, enabling clear ownership and delivery discipline
• Surface and manage cross-initiative risks, constraints and interdependencies to mitigate schedule and budget impacts
• Improve consistency and predictability of execution across the portfolio through repeatable delivery standards and tooling
• Promote a culture of excellence by leading, mentoring, and managing a team of project and program managers
• Establish, manage, and be accountable for the annual IT PMO budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources and alignment with organizational strategic objectives

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional portfolios, programs or enterprise initiatives
• Proven experience establishing or leading an enterprise PMO, including portfolio and investment governance
• Strong capability in portfolio and investment management, including prioritization, capacity planning, and trade-off decision-making
• Experience operating across business and IT, translating strategy into an executable body of work
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment and integration across multiple functions and initiatives
• Strong financial acumen, with the ability to link investments to outcomes and value realization
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and navigate competing priorities
• Experience establishing governance, operating rhythms, and execution discipline at scale
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving structure where processes are not yet defined
• Proficiency with portfolio and delivery tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira)
• PMP, SAFe or similar certifications preferred

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Accelerators Experience operating in manufacturing or operations-driven environments
• Experience managing portfolios that include major enterprise platforms (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Salesforce)

Skills

Skills:

• Portfolio and delivery tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira)
• Project management methodologies (e.g., PMP, SAFe)
• Financial analysis and budgeting
• Strategic planning and execution
• Stakeholder engagement and communication
• Leadership and team management

Benefits

Attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities. Graco offers:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Stock purchase plan
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Tuition reimbursement

Pay

$125,500.00 - $219,600.00

Schedule

Full-time