IT Associate Director, PMO and Quality Assurance

About the Role

Church and Dwight is seeking an IT Associate Director, PMO and Quality Assurance to join our team. This role is responsible for leading the enterprise delivery engine for Church & Dwight technology, including portfolio governance, delivery methods, and quality assurance. The goal is to ensure strategy becomes working capability quickly and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Translate the company's strategic agenda into a sequenced, funded, and resourced portfolio.
• Make delivery performance visible and credible to executive leadership.
• Raise the throughput of the delivery organization.
• Provide program management office services to CEO-sponsored and Executive Leadership Team initiatives.
• Stand up and run the operating rhythm for Corporate Strategic Deliverables (CSDs).
• Maintain a single source of truth on scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, and risk.
• Produce executive-grade reporting for the CEO and ELT.
• Sequence and escalate trade-offs between Corporate CSDs and departmental commitments.
• Lead the agile and automation transformation of technology delivery.
• Modernize IT Quality Assurance through risk-based and continuous validation.
• Build automated testing frameworks and AI-assisted quality practices.
• Represent IT Quality in audits, inspections, and cross-functional compliance initiatives.
• Reduce validation time and cost while maintaining compliance.
• Coach sponsors, business partners, and vendors in agile ways of working.
• Partner with IT leadership on AI-assisted engineering and testing tooling.
• Lead, coach, and develop PMO and QA team members.
• Build organizational capability across portfolio governance, product leadership, and agile delivery.
• Foster a collaborative culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure delivery quality and compliance.
• Identify and lead opportunities to automate PMO and QA processes.
• Drive lessons learned and post-project reviews to improve delivery and compliance.
• Establish automation roadmaps for PMO and QA capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive IT project, program, portfolio, quality assurance, or solution delivery experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in a matrixed environment.

Skills

• Enterprise leadership in IT PMO, portfolio governance, and agile delivery.
• Strong business acumen and alignment of IT strategy with business outcomes.
• Ability to lead and develop high-performing teams and vendor partners.
• Deep understanding of IT PMO operating models and lean portfolio management.
• Knowledge of quality systems, validation governance, and regulatory expectations.
• Proven vendor management and contract alignment skills.
• Ability to establish scalable standards and controls.
• Expertise in automation opportunities across PMO and QA operations.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
• Executive program leadership and change management capabilities.

Work Environment

Hybrid role based in Ewing, NJ. In-person attendance required on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with remote work options on Mondays and Fridays.