Director, IT Project Management Office

CooperVision, Inc.; Victor (ID); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CooperVision, Inc. in Victor, NY, seeks a Director to lead a centralized Program and Project Delivery CoE. You will guide PMs across IT domains including ERP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business functions to ensure consistent delivery.

Partner with IT leadership and Portfolio Management to translate initiatives into governed programs, provide visibility into delivery health and financial performance, and drive standardized practices across the portfolio.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Lead a centralized PM CoE and oversee Program Managers and Project Managers across major technology domains and business functions (Commercial, Finance, HR, Operations, ERP, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure).
• Ensure domain alignment while applying common delivery methodologies, data standards, and governance practices.

Job description

At CooperVision, a business unit of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), we're driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life's beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges - including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at www.coopervision.com .

• This position requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in Victor, NY

Job Summary:

The Director leads a centralized organization of Program Managers and Project Managers supporting major technology domains and systems oriented to business functions, including Commercial, Finance and HR, Operations, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and other enterprise technology initiatives. Program and Project Managers maintain strong dotted-line relationships with their respective functional and technology leaders to ensure domain alignment, while operating within a centralized PM CoE that establishes common delivery expectations, methodologies, processes, data standards, and performance management practices.

Working closely with IT Business Relationship Management, Portfolio Management, technology leadership, and business stakeholders, the Director ensures approved initiatives are translated into well-governed, effectively managed programs and projects. The role provides leadership-level visibility into delivery health, financial performance, resource capacity, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery outcomes.

The Director also partners closely with Portfolio Management to ensure consistent and reliable project information supports cross-portfolio reporting, investment governance, prioritization, and leadership decision-making.

The Director, Project & Program Delivery (PM CoE) leads the project and program management capability for the IT organization and is accountable for establishing consistent delivery governance, practices, standards, and execution disciplines across the IT project portfolio.