Enterprise PMO Director: Strategy & Execution Leader

Plexus-Worldwide; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly rated and competitive medical P

401(k) with company match and vesting

Job summary

Plexus Worldwide, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, seeks a Director to lead and mature the Enterprise PMO, delivering governance, discipline, visibility, and accountability to execute strategic initiatives across the organization.

The role partners with senior leaders to align priorities, manage risk, and drive timely decisions while developing a high-performing PMO team. It balance strategy with disciplined execution and fosters enterprise-wide impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive project, program, portfolio, or product management experience, including experience leading complex enterprise initiatives.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience at the Manager level or above.
• PMP certification required.
• Demonstrated experience building, leading, or significantly maturing an Enterprise PMO, including governance, portfolio management, project lifecycle standards, and performance measurement.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders, influence without authority, navigate competing priorities, and drive decisions across functions.
• Strong knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Demonstrated success managing scope, risk, dependencies, organizational change, and multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex project information into clear recommendations and executive-level reporting.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to anticipate obstacles, solve problems proactively, and maintain accountability in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and develop high-performing teams while fostering collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and positive stakeholder experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously mature the Enterprise PMO, establishing scalable governance, methodologies, processes, tools, standards, and best practices.
• Portfolio Management: Provide oversight for high-visibility initiatives across physical and digital products, technology, operations, and strategic business programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, capacity, and expected business value.
• Execution Excellence: Establish disciplined project lifecycle practices from intake and prioritization through planning, execution, change control, measurement, escalation, and closure.
• Executive Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors and functional leaders, facilitating alignment, surfacing tradeoffs, and driving timely decisions and accountability.
• Risk & Change Management: Establish consistent practices for identifying and managing project risks, dependencies, resource constraints, scope changes, and organizational change requirements.
• Performance Measurement: Develop meaningful project and portfolio metrics and dashboards that provide leadership with actionable visibility into project health, timelines, capacity, risks, and outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve project management processes and enterprise workflows.
• Methodology: Ensure appropriate use of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies based on business needs, complexity, risk, and desired outcomes.
• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Project Managers, strengthening capabilities in execution, stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and accountability.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Build strong relationships across the organization and influence without direct authority to resolve competing priorities and move complex initiatives forward.
• Ability to work occasional evenings, weekends, and/or holidays as business needs require.

Skills

Senior PMO leadership

PMO governance

Waterfall/Agile/hybrid

Stakeholder management

Analytical reporting

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Business/PM)

Job description

Plexus Worldwide, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, seeks a Director to lead and mature the Enterprise PMO, delivering governance, discipline, visibility, and accountability to execute strategic initiatives across the organization.

The role partners with senior leaders to align priorities, manage risk, and drive timely decisions while developing a high-performing PMO team. It balance strategy with disciplined execution and fosters enterprise-wide impact.