Global Director for the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) Center of Excellence (CoE) (108850)

Are you ready to explore the corporate side of retail? The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. and worldwide. Our brands include T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post, as well as tjmaxx.com and sierratradingpost.com in the United States; Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls in Canada; T.K. Maxx in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, as well as HomeSense and tkmaxx.com in the U.K.; and Trade Secret in Australia. With nearly $31 billion in revenues in 2015, more than 3,600 stores, and approximately 216,000 Associates, success is always in style at TJX. We at TJX understand that both our customers and the talent pool from which our Associates come are increasingly diverse. Our core values of respect, integrity and fairness are inherent in the relationships we build with each other, our vendors and our customers. We are committed to leveraging the differences among our Associates and customers to create both a diversified mix of talent within TJX and a diversified mix of merchandise within our stores. We consider the unique views and opinions of our Associates to be key to our growth and success in the future.

We are looking for a Global Director for the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) Center of Excellence (CoE).

This person will provide a centralized group for EPMO standards and best practices across solution delivery towers, and drives consistency across IT portfolio.

We are looking for a visionary to advice and mentor on strategize process and to bring in tools, templates and governance into our EPMO.

We are a cross functional group who works with all domains in a matrixed organization. We are looking for a Director to be able to manage people, process, culture and to drive change and acceptance.

Major Duties/ Responsibilities

• Provides end-to-end management and accountability for the COEs (PM, BA, Dev, QA and Estimation), Training and Continuous Process Improvement functions.
• Establish new Communities of Practice for the Project Management, Development, and Quality Assurance.
• Oversees the assessment of current project delivery tools, templates and processes to ensure consistent global processes and alignment with the SDP.
• Ensure that all methodologies, tools and techniques align with all TJX adopted development methodologies.
• Ensure improved project and product delivery by implementation of consistent global processes.
• Oversee the development of reliable communication practices and vehicles for global knowledge transfer and information sharing across all the Communities of Practice.
• Monitors performance metrics, measures, and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to ensure quality and operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Partner with compliance, internal controls and audit teams to ensure effective operation of controls and compliance with corporate policies as well as industry and statutory requirements.
• Conduct and direct research into emerging trends and technologies
• Establish and maintain a shared access site for all COE/COP documents, templates, processes, training material and communications
• Conducts performance appraisals of staff and provides career guidance through regular coaching.
• Special projects as needed.
• Makes personnel decisions including hire/fire, training, development, and disciplinary decisions when appropriate.
• Maintains ability to share leading practices across the functional organizations
• Provides a source for identifying experts in a domain area
• Encourages knowledge sharing and skills development
• Facilitates the rollout of new processes for respective CoP’s
• Provides training materials on COE standards
• Creates templates to facilitate adoption of CoE standards
• Partner closely with the EPMO Partners and Tools & Methodologies groups to execute improvement efforts to improve EPMO performance
• Support the enablement of the continuous improvement approach, methods and tools across EPMO
• Continuously improve the EPMO program to achieve process maturity
• 4 – 10 direct and 0 – 30 indirect reports
• May manage very senior individual contributors
• Manages associate compensation & professional services budget to plan for assigned team.
• Provides recommendations and input into future year budget requests

Skills and Knowledge:

• Comprehensive knowledge of the full life cycle of software development methodologies as well as industry best practices.
• Ability to foster and build relationships at all levels in a large, global corporate environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
• Strong written and presentations skills, with the ability to tailor information to the audience in a way that establishes rapport, influences others and gains understanding at all levels.
• Recognized thought leader within TJX for one or more practices or technical capabilities within assigned domain
• Ability to lead, motivate and direct multiple, geographically distributed work groups comprised of disparate skills
• Strong performance management skills to include coaching, goal setting, holding team members across multiple levels and self-accountable for commitments
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work up and down the organization; able to influence others to achieve results
• Highly self-motivated and directed with an attention to detail
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong desktop productivity suite skills. Able to use appropriate tools for metrics reporting and communication of data to senior management
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, demanding and fluid environment; remains calm under pressure; demonstrates excellent conflict management skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

Minimum Experience:

• At least 10 years of experience in IT, 3+ years in a leadership role
• At least 10 years’ experience in a combination of PM, BA, Development or QA role.
• At least 5 years of experience managing and developing others.
• Experience working in an organization with rapid growth and ability to design a solution that can easily handle organizational changes and restructuring of teams

Extensive experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree ( Information Technology, Business Administration, Accounting or related) or related experience
• Master’s Degree (Information Technology, Project Management, MBA or related) preferred

Industry recognized certifications (PMP, Prince2, CBAP, etc.) preferred

What's In It For You?

At the TJX Companies, Inc., conveniently located directly off both the Mass Pike and Route 9, you'll not only enjoy the security of working for a stable and profitable industry leader, but you'll also enjoy the benefits that go along with it, such as: Medical/Dental/Life insurance, Associate Discounts and a Savings/Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan.

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TJX is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.

Posting Notes: Marlborough || Massachusetts