Director, Program Management Office

 

 

Job ID:  515201

Exempt

 

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

 

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Job Summary

 

Oldcastle Infrastructure (OI), as part of CRH’s Infrastructure Products Group (IPG), is a global manufacturing leader of utility infrastructure products.  Our goal is to be the most efficient producer of engineered systems and our customers’ strategic partner of choice. A crucial part of OI’s journey is the investment in new digital tools including a new ERP.  With a modern, common platform, OI will unlock the benefits of its scale, deliver a better customer experience, and build a foundation for continuous process improvement. 

 

The Director of Program Management Office leads the portfolio governance, program delivery, and execution excellence for the Digital Transformation agenda. This role owns the end‑to‑end portfolio management and roadmap of initiatives spanning Lead‑to‑Quote, Order‑to‑Cash, Plan‑to‑Produce, Source‑to‑Pay, and Record‑to‑Report value streams for the different business —ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, on budget, and to scope/quality. The Director manages a pool of Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile teams (internal and partner resources), and institutionalizes modern delivery methods (SAP Activate Methodology, Agile/Scrum Methodology and DevOps) with robust financial, projects implementation best practices and benefit realization controls.

 

Job Location

 

• This role will work out of our office in Sandy Springs, GA with a hybrid schedule. 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Program Portfolio Roadmap Plan

• Define and maintain the digital transformation roadmap and annual projects portfolio aligned to the strategic business units’ priorities.
• Identify program critical path and project inter-dependencies.
• Align defensible prioritization model (value, risk, cost, capacity) and facilitate monthly and quarterly project planning events.

 

• Program Delivery Governance Model

• Establish a PMO operating governance model: portfolio boards reviews, SteerCo and Operating Committees cadences, stage gates, risk/issue/escalation paths, and audit trails.
• Establish roles and responsibilities (RACI) clarity within the program and clear escalation paths.
• Manage the intake of initiative and prioritization based on business strategic priorities, value, risk and capacity

• Program Delivery Methodology & Risk Management 

• • Define and enforce project delivery methodologies and the use of standard artefacts (BRD, HLD, FSD, TSD and RAID Logs), test plans and cutover playbooks.
  • provide PM resources capabilities for the business, functional and technical teams, OCM and deployment teams.
  • Implement quality assurance gates for the solution design reviews, test readiness, deployment readiness and Go/NoGo milestones.
  • Manage a central RAID:  Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies across all projects.
  • Manage resource capacity planning and conduct a regular program and demand vs resource reviews.

 

• Program Status and Reporting 

• • Facilitate monthly and quarterly project updates with SteerCo leadership and Operating Committees for program updates, KPI dashboard, and risks escalation and mitigation plans
  • Establish formal processes to enable Scope and Chang