Manager, Enterprise PMO
Alaska Airlines
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Job summary
Alaska Airlines is seeking a Manager for the Enterprise PMO to drive a portfolio of strategic, complex initiatives. You will ensure on-time delivery with high quality and tangible business outcomes while guiding a team of project managers and aligning projects with enterprise strategy.
You will partner with senior leaders to set priorities, optimize resources, manage risks, and realize benefits across programs. A PMP is preferred, with strong communication and change-management capabilities.
Qualifications
- 5+ years leading complex cross-functional projects.
- 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, PMBOK).
- Hands-on experience in scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the execution and value delivery of a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and measurable business outcomes.
- Partner with business leaders to align objectives, scope, success criteria, and benefits; drive transformation and process improvement.
- Oversee portfolio performance including budget, resources, timelines, risks, and benefits realization; resolve cross-team issues.
- Provide governance and direction to project teams, ensuring PMO standards and best practices are followed.
- Build cross-functional relationships and manage dependencies to maintain clear communication.
- Identify opportunities for innovation, leveraging AI and analytics to improve PMO processes and delivery.
- Lead and develop a team of project managers to ensure disciplined execution and business impact.
- Establish relationships with senior leaders to align priorities and outcomes.
- Identify and mitigate portfolio risks and resource gaps.
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Job description
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
The Manager, Enterprise PMO executes the EPMO strategy and delivers a portfolio of strategic, complex initiatives. This role ensures projects are delivered on time, with high quality and measurable business outcomes, at Alaska Airlines. As a people leader, this role sets clear priorities and direction for the team and collaborates with senior executives to ensure alignment of the portfolio and individual project objectives with enterprise strategy. The role leads portfolio management, including governance, risk, resource allocation, delivery quality, and value realization.
- Lead the execution and value delivery of a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities and measurable business outcomes.
- Partner with business leaders and sponsors to align objectives, scope, success criteria, and benefits, and drive transformation through effective delivery, change management, and process improvement.
- Oversee portfolio performance, including budget, resources, timelines, risks, and benefits realization, and resolve issues and constraints across teams.
- Provide governance and direction to project teams, ensuring consistent execution against PMO standards, methodologies, and best practices.
- Partner across the enterprise to manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and impacts, and maintain clear communication.
- Identify and implement opportunities for innovation, leveraging AI and analytics, to continuously improve PMO processes, tools, and capabilities to enhance delivery effectiveness.
- Lead and develop a team of project managers, ensuring disciplined execution, stakeholder alignment, and consistent delivery of business impact across all programs and initiatives.
- Establish strong relationships and influence stakeholders to align priorities and deliver business outcomes.
- Identify and resolve portfolio risks and constraints, escalating as needed; align across teams to address conflicts and resource gaps.
- 5 years of experience leading complex cross-functional projects to completion, project management or related areas.
- 2 years of leadership experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and best practices (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, PMBOK).
- Hands-on experience in project management, including all elements of scope, schedule, budget, risk evaluation, issue resolution, quality, integration, staffing, and communications.
- Experience in a leadership role managing large-scale, complex, and cross-functional projects.
- Experience leading change management initiatives, implementing projects involving process improvement principles and technology integration, and driving organizational transformation.
- Demonstrated ability to form relationships and strategic partnerships with senior leaders.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and analytical skills.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum age of 18.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Portfolio management role experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.
Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.
$120,400-$180,600 / year
Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.
Note: We don't typically hire at the top of the range.
- Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
- Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
- Generous 401k match program
- Annual bonus plans
- Generous holiday and paid time off
For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.
It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.
We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ("Section 503") and the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ("VEVRAA"). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.
- Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;
- Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and
- Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.
Full-Time
Exempt
Regular
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