Cybersecurity PMO Director

Our PMO currently operates in a shared services model providing support staff, systems oversight, implementation, reporting, and governance for 2 of our 8 corporate operating units. The Director PMO Corporate Technology is responsible for developing and ensuring a high level of overall PMO maturity. This includes identifying gaps, creating resource plans, presenting and justifying requests, and driving initiatives to advance our overall PMO maturity. This resource will help drive our strategy through prioritization of cyber security initiatives as well as development of future org models to help maximize our ability to attract and retain top talent. This resource will report to the Sr. Director of Strategy and Planning and will present plans and roadmaps to our CISO and IT leadership teams.

In addition, this resource will ensure we are staffed with top tier talent in support of PMO activities. This includes oversight of a team of up to 19 resources. The Director PMO will be responsible for creating job descriptions, performing interviews, hiring, onboarding, termination, coaching, mentoring, conflict resolution, and problem solving. This applies to both staff and contractors. The Director PMO will maintain vendor relationships with all staff augmentation vendors used within the PMO ensuring we have access to top tier talent at all times in the markets where we talent is needed.

This resource will own the PMO suite of tools and oversee the administrators of the PPM system.  This includes application lifecycle management for the PPM tool and any other tools or reports required. 

This resource will be responsible annually for building plans and roadmaps to introduce or upgrade capabilities within the PMO. 

The Director PMO will be responsible for maintaining a persistent web publishing platform, on sharepoint and with assistance from a communications team. This resource will be responsible for all content published to our PMO SharePoint page. This includes links, news, instructional content, and all policies, procedures, or portfolio-level artifacts required to support consistency and successful outcomes for our PMO

This position will ensure consistency in the data within our portfolio as well as timeliness of health and status reporting by maintaining an audit process and holding project managers accountable for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of updates.

This position is required to establish a collaborative framework that partners closely with key stakeholders to drive security and compliance solutions across Carnival Corporation.  Additionally, this position has overall accountability for the global portfolio management and budgeting of capital initiatives across GCS.   

Essential Functions:

• PMO Management– Responsible for all aspects of our PMO including 80M-100M in annual projects, ~19 resources, customers from 2 different Carn Corp OUs and Stakeholders from all 8 Carn Corp Ous
• PMO Transformation – Create, review, present, and execute transformational initiatives within the PMO.
• Portfolio Management – Responsible for accuracy and completeness of portfolio data from idea through to transition to run. Responsible for maintaining materials used to train staff responsible for upkeep of portfolio data. Maintains audit procedures required to validate accuracy and completeness. Maintains a catalog of training and job aids related to portfolio management systems and tools. Ensures consistent treatment of projects and adherence to our PMLC across different pillars to consistent outcomes and ensure high quality project delivery.
• Financial Management – Participates in annual financial planning process. Assists by collecting and aggregating idea/submissions which form the basis for our annual capital planning process. Support the backlog of ideas and maintain accurate and complete financial records as they make their way through our project management lifecycle and become projects. Provides CapEx support to GCS leaders for Capital Allocation Requests (CARs) submissions and expense tracking and project chargebacks. 
• Communication and Transparency – As needed, leads large, complex, risky and/or political programs.  Ensures success through excellent project management, teamwork and collaboration, prioritization and creative problem solving, risk mitigation, resource planning, and communication.  Conducts executive project reviews with IT Executives and Business Leaders. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in degree in Business or Project Management is required. An advance degree is highly desirable, particularly an MBA.
• Minimum of 10 years in a portfolio manager or PMO lead capacity. Experience leading global cross-functional teams a plus. Backgrou