Vice President, Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office - Contract to Hire

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SUFS Total Rewards

Medical - HSA/FSA - Dental - Vision
Company Paid Disability - Life Insurance
401K Match - Tuition Reimbursement
Generous Time off Policy - Professional Development


JOB SUMMARY
We are seeking a dynamic, enterprise minded Vice President to lead the Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office (EPPMO) and serve as a highly visible, trusted partner to executive leadership. This is a critical leadership role responsible for setting the strategic direction, governance, and operational excellence of enterprise-wide project, program, and portfolio management, ensuring organizational strategy is consistently translated into clear, measurable outcomes.

The Vice President owns the end-to-end lifecycle, continuously advancing delivery practices to meet the organization’s evolving needs. With a strong executive presence and the ability to influence across the enterprise, this leader drives clarity, accountability, and alignment across complex, cross functional initiatives while balancing risk, resources, and organizational capacity to enable effective execution at scale.

As a strategic partner to senior leaders, the Vice President brings a forward looking, data driven perspective, using insights and performance indicators to inform decision making and ensure sustained focus on the initiatives that matter most. This role establishes and evolves enterprise standards, governance models, and performance metrics that promote transparency, consistency, and confidence in delivery.

In addition, the Vice President builds and leads a high performing EPPMO organization, attracting, mentoring, and developing project, program, and portfolio leaders. This role champions a culture of execution excellence, continuous improvement, and results driven delivery, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and with clear, measurable business impact.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
◦ Responsible for leading the EPMO.
◦ Define a streamlined PMO Center of Excellence.
◦ Develop vision and overall strategy for the EPMO governance function across all departments.
◦ Serve as executive liaison interacting with all organizations within SUFS.
◦ Implements and administers end-to-end portfolio governance and portfolio management practices and processes, in alignment with SUFS strategic goals and objectives, including integration with the annual planning, budgeting processes, and SUFS Stage Gate prioritize process.
◦ Leads enterprise-wide portfolio prioritization and reprioritization reviews for all enterprise projects, including transformational projects.
◦ Fosters collaboration between and including direct and indirect reports across the organization.
◦ Accountable for organization-wide education of EPMO policies, procedures, and standards and consistent application across the entire portfolio of projects; engages regularly with all levels of leaders on strategy delivery and portfolio governance performance.
◦ Promotes best practices and guides the team on a path of continuous improvement.
◦ Ensures appropriate project, program and transformation hand-off and closure occurs, including holding the final postmortem/ lessons learned sessions, and leveraging learnings to improve cross-team project practices.
◦ Executer and auditor of the EPMO governance and processes across SUFS, to ensure effective function across SUFS.
◦ Manage relationships between senior business leaders for all orgs and EPMO and at the appropriate level.
◦ In charge of negotiating and projecting a positive image of the organization.
◦ Strong in analytical decision-making skills to resolve issues, prioritize resources, and address project challenges.
◦ Lead the efforts of a winning culture across the organization.
◦ Collaborates in the development, coaching, and mentoring of talent and leaders in the organization.
◦ Leads, audits, and supports the completion and delivery of prioritized strategic initiatives that are tied to EPMO departmental and SUFS OKRs with appropriate EPMO governance, processes, and staff.
◦ Influences upward decision-making with a demonstrated executive presence and presentation skills.
◦ Understands and embraces diversity and possess the ability to adapt behavior based on cultural norms.
◦ Manages change effectively including organizational, process, and service delivery changes. Successfully gains support for business-driven changes through effective and timely com