Global Director PMO Center of Excellence at CooperVision, Inc in Victor, New York

Job Description:

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com

Job Summary:

The role will build and lead a Global Project Management Center of Excellence, focused on establishing and sharing best practices to ensure the prioritization, coordination and successful delivery of the strategic projects that contribute to CooperVision achieving its commercial objectives. The role involves senior stakeholder engagement at VP level and above, provides governance and structure for key global and strategic projects, while also providing advice and project support to local project management leaders.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

Project Management leadership:

• Provide PM leadership to key global strategic projects that are needed to deliver sustained commercial success, ensuring there is clear prioritization and resource allocation (people and budgets) to deliver the project on-time and on budget.


• To lead strategic reviews of key global strategic initiatives and provide clear analysis on the benefits realization of key projects. To make commercial recommendations using data and analytics that ensure the CVI division continuously improves project execution and learns quickly which projects are successful and which are not.


• Establish measurable KPIs to enable executive reporting of key global strategic project status at Global level.


• To support the Global Strategy function in the delivery of key global priorities. Oversee all aspects of project delivery: meeting facilitation, define the scope and terms of the project, project planning and administration, agreeing and setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring execution.

Project Management Center of Excellence:

• Establish and promote industry-recognized, best-in-class PMO and project management standards for CVI Globally 


• Lead the evaluation, execution and embedding of program and project management tools, systems, processes and resources, driving continued use, improvement and maturation of best practice.


• Lead the Global Strategy Project Management Office providing governance frameworks and support to PM teams across the division, ensuring high standards and discipline in PM execution.


• Ensure that PMO resources across the division adhere to the principles of scalability, simplicity and reducing complexity when scoping new project initiatives.


• To act as mentor and coach to PM resources across the division and manage the Global Strategy PMO team as part of CooperVision’s Personal Enablement Development process.


• Travel required (domestic and globally) depending on the needs of the organization.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Highly organized and structured, logical thinker 


• Effective business leader who can lead with or without authority and is comfortable leading Subject Matter Experts in the delivery of a common goal.


• Excellent knowledge of core commercial processes


• Experience of working in market and at regional level


• Goal focused.


• Adept at making things happen while successfully managing risks.


• Adept in delivering success in dynamic environments.


• Comfortable planning under conditions of ambiguity


• Team player and people focused leader who authentically lives CVIs values of: Dedicated, Innovative, Friendly and Partner


• Lean Six-Sigma or PRINCE2 practitioner certification desirable.


• Culturally astute and able to flex style accordingly.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Work Environment:

• Desk based – and expected to combine office working with home working.


• Ability to travel as required.


• Sedentary to light physical effort necessary to perform the job.


• There will be extended periods of sitting and using a computer.

Experience: 

• Has led or has worked in a PMO function or a project rich environment.


• Has successfully led transformational projects that have led to sustained business improvement or change.


• A proven track record of success in helping coordinate matrix resources in the delivery of a project or resolution of an organizational problem. 


• Experience of setting and supporting strategy development and execution


• Experience in leading projects where high levels of change management is required.


• Leading in a matrix environment


• Minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, global experience a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher preferred

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