IT Project Portfolio Lead & Delivery Champion

KLS Martin Group; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KLS Martin Group is seeking a Manager, IT Project Management in the United States to lead a small PM team and own the IT project portfolio. You will set delivery standards, coach PMs, and ensure projects meet regulatory and quality requirements while maturing PM processes.

This hands-on leadership role expands as the function grows beyond IT. You will partner with IT and business stakeholders, manage intake and prioritization, and report on portfolio health, value, and risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of progressive project management experience delivering medium to large IT initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience managing or supervising project managers, including performance management, coaching, and development.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing portfolio management practices, including intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and portfolio level reporting.
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, or PMI ACP certification, or equivalent preferred.
• Prior experience in a regulated industry (medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other FDA regulated environment) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the project management team, including hiring, onboarding, objective setting, performance management, coaching, and career development, and sustain a collaborative culture aligned with KLS Martin values and IT department goals.
• Set and enforce the delivery standard expected of Project Managers, including the fundamental business knowledge required to shape scope, challenge assumptions, and steer decisions as active delivery leaders on every project they lead.
• Demonstrate AI fluency by applying AI tools in daily work to solve problems, accelerate delivery, and build business solutions, consistent with company AI governance and data handling standards.
• Build AI fluency across the team by setting adoption expectations, coaching hands on use, and holding team members accountable for applying AI to improve the quality and speed of their work.
• Own the IT project portfolio, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, capacity planning, and the assignment of work across the team, in partnership with IT leadership and business stakeholders.
• Maintain portfolio transparency for IT leadership and business sponsors by reporting status, trends, financial performance, and expected benefits, and by escalating material risks, issues, and resource constraints in time to act on them.
• Hold the team accountable for delivery on individual projects, conducting project reviews, testing the quality of plans and risk management, and removing obstacles that put commitments at risk.
• Own the project management discipline itself, including methodology, standards, templates, tooling, and reporting, and advance its maturity over time, building practices that can scale beyond IT as the function's scope expands.
• Personally lead high priority or strategically sensitive initiatives, modeling the expected standard of delivery and coaching Project Managers through real situations on their own projects.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for the IT project portfolio with business stakeholders, and represent the project management function in steering committees, cross functional planning, and vendor discussions, including vendor evaluations and statement of work reviews.
• Partner with peer leaders across IT and the business to ensure project delivery aligns with technical architecture, operational standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to support audit and inspection readiness for projects involving regulated systems, including IT systems lifecycle management and computerized system validation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Portfolio management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Delivery lifecycle

Communication

Vendor management

PM tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Smartsheet

Wrike

Microsoft Office

Job description

KLS Martin Group is seeking a Manager, IT Project Management in the United States to lead a small PM team and own the IT project portfolio. You will set delivery standards, coach PMs, and ensure projects meet regulatory and quality requirements while maturing PM processes.

This hands-on leadership role expands as the function grows beyond IT. You will partner with IT and business stakeholders, manage intake and prioritization, and report on portfolio health, value, and risks.