Executive Director IS Applications

Calling All Strategic Portfolio Leaders!

Are you a transformational leader who excels at guiding enterprise portfolios, driving organizational strategy, and delivering large-scale technology initiatives that create meaningful business impact? Do you thrive in highly collaborative environments where governance, innovation, operational excellence, and customer value intersect? If so, this leadership opportunity may be your next challenge.

As the Executive Director, PMO and Portfolio Management, you will provide executive leadership for enterprise Information Services (IS) portfolio management, project governance, strategic planning, and PMO operations across the organization for “Enterprise Business Applications (Oracle ERP Cloud)” portfolio. Partnering closely with the VP of IS Consulting/Support Services, executive leadership, regional stakeholders, and cross-functional teams, you will oversee the planning, prioritization, execution, and performance of critical IS portfolios that support ministries and regions across Providence.

The Role:

This role carries responsibility for value analysis, advancing portfolio management best practices, strengthening governance frameworks, optimizing resource investments, and ensuring projects align with strategic business objectives. As Providence continues to transform and innovate, you will serve as a trusted advisor and influential leader who helps connect vision to execution through disciplined portfolio management and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Lead Enterprise Portfolio Strategy: Develop and oversee enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) practices that align technology investments with organizational priorities, ensuring projects deliver measurable value and support long-term strategic objectives for “Enterprise Business Applications (Oracle ERP Cloud)” portfolio.
• Drive Governance and Prioritization Excellence: Establish and maintain robust portfolio governance processes, prioritization frameworks, and decision-making structures that support effective resource allocation, investment oversight, and strategic planning across Information Services.
• Champion Strategic Execution: Partner with executive, business, operational, and technology leaders to evaluate, prioritize, and guide enterprise initiatives from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies, budgets, and timelines.
• Optimize Portfolio Performance: Oversee project portfolios through data-driven management practices, performance metrics, financial oversight, and capacity planning to maximize delivery effectiveness and business outcomes.
• Advance PMO Standards and Methodologies: Lead the development and continuous improvement of project management methodologies, governance standards, project accounting practices, performance reporting, and portfolio management tools that create consistency across the organization.
• Build Trusted Executive Partnerships: Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, ministry leaders, regional stakeholders, and governance councils by providing visibility into portfolio health, risks, opportunities, resource needs, and business value realization.
• Lead Organizational Transformation: Support enterprise transformation initiatives by driving change management, process improvement, operational excellence, and organizational learning that enhances project delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Develop and Inspire High-Performing Teams: Attract, develop, and lead talented project and portfolio management professionals while creating an environment focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth.
• Drive Financial Stewardship: Collaborate closely with finance and operational leaders to support capital planning, budgeting, portfolio investment decisions, and value measurement while ensuring responsible stewardship of organizational resources.

Why Join Us?

• Enterprise Impact: Lead strategic portfolios and initiatives that influence technology investments and organizational transformation across Providence.
• Executive Visibility: Partner directly with senior leaders and governance teams to shape priorities and guide critical business decisions.
• Strategic Influence: Drive organizational alignment between technology, operations, and business objectives.
• Transformation Leadership: Play a pivotal role in advancing innovation, operational excellence, and enterprise modernization efforts.
• Collaborative Partnerships: Work alongside talented leaders across ministries, regions, shared services, and Information Services teams.
• Mission-Driven Work: Help deliver technology solutions and strategic initiatives that support caregivers, patients, and communities served by Providence.

Ready to Lead Enterprise Transformation Through Portfolio Excellence?

If you are a strategic, collaborative leader with a passion for portfolio management, organizational transformation, and delivering enterprise-scale results, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and help shape the future of Information Services while driving meaningful impact across the organization.

The full pay range is listed in accordance with applicable law. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, organizational compensation alignment, and the approved hiring department budget for the position. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation and benefits.

At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve.  Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead.