Gr 6 / PG 40 – Enterprise IT - Director, IT Strategy, Performance & PMO – US

Kimberly-Clark Corporation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark Corporation in the United States seeks an experienced Director of IT Strategy, Performance & PMO to lead the enterprise IT PMO, governance, and delivery for large-scale programs.

You will define strategy, oversee budgets and KPIs, drive formal delivery standards across waterfall, agile, and hybrid methods, and develop the PMO capability across global teams to improve predictability and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Strategy, or related.
• MBA, PMP, PMI, PRINCE2, agile, Scrum, SAFe, PPM, or program management certification preferred.
• 10+ years of IT program, project, portfolio, transformation, delivery, consulting, or technology leadership experience.
• Expertise in PMO governance, delivery methodologies, PPM tools, executive reporting, budget tracking, risk management, and resource planning.
• Strong communication, executive influence, delivery judgment, change leadership, and global matrix stakeholder management capability.
• Proven ability to improve delivery predictability, project quality, team capability, and governance effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise IT PMO strategy, delivery standards, governance model, methodology, tools, templates, and operating cadence.
• Oversee large, long-range, and complex programs, ensuring scope, cost, staffing, work plans, schedules, communications, risks, and outcomes are actively managed.
• Establish delivery governance from team-level routines to executive forums, creating transparency into portfolio health, milestones, budget, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive excellence across waterfall, agile, hybrid, and product delivery methods through standards, coaching, artifacts, and communities of practice.
• Lead project financial tracking, status reporting, budget/spend visibility, quality assurance, delivery discipline, and risk escalation practices.
• Build project/program management capability through talent development, PM community leadership, tooling adoption, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Delivery judgment

Change leadership

Global collaboration

Education

MBA

PMP

PMI

PRINCE2

AGILE

Scrum

SAFe

PPM

Job description

Job Posting Title: Gr 6 / PG 40 – Enterprise IT - Director, IT Strategy, Performance & PMO – US Job Description Role: Enterprise IT - Director, IT Strategy, Performance & PMO

Reporting to: Greg Beckwith

Country: United States of America

Pay Grade: Gr 6 / PG 40

Owns enterprise IT program and project management standards, governance, delivery discipline, reporting, and capability building for large, long-range, and complex technology initiatives across delivery methodologies.

In this role, you will:

• Define and lead the enterprise IT PMO strategy, delivery standards, governance model, methodology, tools, templates, and operating cadence.


• Oversee large, long-range, and complex programs, ensuring scope, cost, staffing, work plans, schedules, communications, risks, and outcomes are actively managed.


• Establish delivery governance from team-level routines to executive forums, creating transparency into portfolio health, milestones, budget, risks, and dependencies.


• Drive excellence across waterfall, agile, hybrid, and product delivery methods through standards, coaching, artifacts, and communities of practice.


• Lead project financial tracking, status reporting, budget/spend visibility, quality assurance, delivery discipline, and risk escalation practices.


• Build project/program management capability through talent development, PM community leadership, tooling adoption, and continuous improvement.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, CompSci, Engineering, Strategy, or related.


• MBA, PMP, PMI, PRINCE2, agile, Scrum, SAFe, PPM, or program management certification preferred.


• 10+ years of IT program, project, portfolio, transformation, delivery, consulting, or technology leadership experience.


• Expertise in PMO governance, delivery methodologies, PPM tools, executive reporting, budget tracking, risk management, and resource planning.


• Strong communication, executive influence, delivery judgment, change leadership, and global matrix stakeholder management capability.


• Proven ability to improve delivery predictability, project quality, team capability, and governance effectiveness.

Key Measure of Success

• Strategic program delivery against scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes.


• Portfolio health, risk visibility, and executive reporting quality.


• Governance adoption, methodology compliance, and artifact quality.


• Delivery predictability, change success, and dependency management effectiveness.


• PMO community maturity, tooling adoption, and project leader capability.Stakeholder satisfaction with program transparency and delivery leadership.

Please note: at this time Kenvue / KC will not be supporting candidates through a Immigration / Green Card / Permanent Residency process. Company sponsored relocation is not provided. All interested candidates who are outside of the role's location options must self-relocate if interested in the role.

This site provides eligible employees with access to confidential ELT-2 opportunities available through the Early Access Window process.

It's important to note, that if you are offered a comparable role through this ELT-2 Early Access Window, you are no longer eligible for severance. It is the offer of a comparable role, not the acceptance of the role, that removes your severance eligibility.