EPMO Head

About the Role

The Converge EPMO Head provides enterprise-wide leadership for the Enterprise Program Management Office, ensuring that strategic initiatives, strategic big rocks, transformation programs, and major business/technology projects are aligned with corporate priorities and delivered with strong governance, transparency, and measurable business outcomes.

The role establishes the enterprise framework for portfolio prioritization, program governance, delivery assurance, performance management, risk management, and executive reporting.

Key Responsibilities

STRATEGY & PORTFOLIO

• Establish enterprise portfolio governance, prioritization, and investment management practices.
• Evaluate and prioritize strategic initiatives based on business value, strategic alignment, risk, complexity, dependencies, and organizational capacity.
• Maintain an enterprise-wide view of initiatives, investments, milestones, dependencies, and expected benefits.
• Facilitate executive portfolio reviews and investment trade-off decisions.
• Identify and address portfolio risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Ensure strategic initiatives have defined objectives, accountable owners, business cases, milestones, and success measures.
• Oversee benefits realization tracking for strategic programs and investments.
• Lead portfolio planning and governance cycles that support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), ensuring critical initiatives are identified, prioritized, funded, and execution-ready.

GOVERNANCE & DELIVERY EXCELLENCE

• Define and continuously improve the EPMO federated operating model.
• Establish enterprise project, program, and portfolio management standards, methodologies, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate with BU PMOs to ensure consistent adoption and execution of governance practices.
• Establish stage gates, decision authorities, governance forums, and escalation mechanisms.
• Enable standardized planning, reporting, risk, issue, dependency, and change management practices across the organization.
• Provide enterprise oversight of delivery performance, including schedule, cost, scope, quality, and resource utilization.

PEOPLE, CAPABILITY & PM EXCELLENCE

• Establish and lead the enterprise Project Management Center of Excellence (CoE) and PM Community of Practice.
• Develop project, program, and portfolio management capabilities across business units.
• Define role expectations, competency frameworks, career pathways, and guidance materials.
• Promote professional certification, continuous learning, and knowledge-sharing.
• Assess and improve organizational PM maturity and delivery capabilities.
• Champion a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and delivery excellence.

PERFORMANCE & EXECUTIVE ALIGNMENT

• Establish enterprise portfolio performance dashboards, KPIs, and executive reporting.
• Translate portfolio performance data into actionable executive insights and recommendations.
• Facilitate executive governance, portfolio review, and decision-making forums.
• Align business, technology, finance, operations, and support functions on enterprise priorities.
• Build trusted partnerships with executive sponsors, initiative owners, and BU PMO leaders.
• Drive continuous improvement through portfolio insights, lessons learned, and performance analysis.
• Champion organizational readiness, stakeholder alignment, and adoption for major transformation initiatives.
• Maintain common tools, templates, frameworks, and delivery best practices.
• Promote data quality, reporting consistency, and effective use of portfolio management platforms.
• Drive continuous improvement of delivery practices, controls, and governance effectiveness.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 12+ years of progressive experience in project, program, portfolio, or PMO leadership roles.
• 5+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide PMO, portfolio management, or transformation functions.
• Proven experience establishing and maturing PMO/EPMO operating models, governance frameworks, and portfolio management practices.

Skills

• Strong enterprise portfolio management, strategic planning, and investment governance expertise.
• Deep understanding of project, program, and portfolio management frameworks, methodologies, and governance practices.
• Strong leadership and people development capabilities, including building high-performing PMO and delivery communities.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholders around strategic priorities.
• Strong analytical, financial, and business acumen with the ability to evaluate investment decisions and portfolio trade-offs.
• Experience establishing performance metrics, executive dashboards, and portfolio reporting frameworks.
• Strong risk management, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, organizational maturity, and adoption of best practices.

Preferred Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP®) or Program Management Professional (PgMP®).
• Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®).
• PRINCE2®, MSP® (Managing Successful Programmes), or P3O® certifications.
• Agile certifications such as SAFe®, PMI-ACP®, or Certified Scrum Professional.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt.
• ITIL Foundation or higher.
• Experience facilitating executive-level governance, investment prioritization, and portfolio decision-making.
• Experience working within or leading federated PMO structures across multiple business units.
• Demonstrated success in driving organizational change, delivery excellence, and benefits realization.
• Proven track record of improving EPMO maturity, strengthening governance effectiveness, and delivering measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, and resource optimization across the organization

Key Interfaces

Internal

• Executive Leadership Team and Governance Committees
• Business Unit Heads and Functional Leaders
• Business Unit PMOs / PMO Leads
• Finance (Planning & Analysis, BPM, Controls)
• Resource (P&C / Business Partners)
• Corporate - ERM, CGDP, LEGAL, PROCUREMENT etc.

External (if applicable)

• Consulting partners supporting PMO transformation or governance initiatives
• Project management tool vendors
• CoE - P&C / Capability Development Team
• Program Sponsors, Initiative Owners, and Program Managers

Work Location: In person