Director, Program Management Office

Job Summary:

The Director of Program Management Office will strategically lead the prioritization and optimization of the Infrastructure portfolio, ensuring effective execution of programs and projects across their full lifecycle. This role is responsible for maximizing resource utilization, anticipating and managing portfolio change requests, risks, issues, and ensuring timely, accurate status reporting.

Accountable for overseeing large-scale, complex initiatives—including multiyear, multiregional, and cross-functional programs—from pilot through full enterprise deployment, this leader ensures alignment with business goals and delivery of measurable value. Responsibilities include managing scope, schedule, budget, and post-deployment performance of the portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own onboarding of large projects and programs to deliver approved business functionality to Sysco.

• Define and lead portfolio prioritization of programs and projects, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risk, and budget.

• Partner with all stakeholders and dependent projects leads to develop detailed project

• portfolio plan.

• Oversee portfolio of project budgets, including purchases and contracts, and monthly spend and resource forecasting to enhance cost and resource efficiency.

• Serves as final point of escalation in remediation of risks, issues, or requests. Evaluates

• impact of scope changes on the projects and how it may interact with other projects.

• Drives, develops and delivers presentations on portfolio of projects in addition to ensure

• communications between stakeholders of dependent projects and with senior management.

• Leads a global team of Program and Project Management resources.

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education & experience.

Education Preferred:

Advanced degree (MBA)

Experience Required:

7+ years of program and project management leadership; 5+ years of working in IT Portfolio Management; Management of a team of at least 5 direct reports in addition to indirect resources that include matrix leadership & responsibilities.

Experience Preferred:

• Demonstrated understanding of program and project financials and measure of performance, including benefits realization.

• Experience influencing, presenting to or facilitating group collaboration of all sizes and management levels.

• Define and lead portfolio prioritization of programs and projects, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risk, and budget.

• Ability to drive performance through benefits realization

Technical Skills and Abilities:

• 5 years’ experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project and Smartsheets or

• equivalent

• Experience with project management tools and methodologies.

• Basic knowledge in multiple areas of IT Infrastructure (i.e. Data center compute,

• storage, networking, voice, cloud, end user technology)

Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Travel Requirements:

Up to 10%

Work Environment:

Corporate office & remote home environment