Director, Portfolio Project Management Office

Premier Nutrition•Emeryville, CA

13h•$200,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Portfolio Project Management Office (PMO) is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing the enterprise project portfolio and driving excellence in project execution across Premier Nutrition Company (PNC). The Director, PMO leads the Project Management Organization focused on End-to-End Portfolio Management processes and acts as the Process Owner for the Portfolio Management Review within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle. This role oversees a team of five and is accountable for driving cross-functional end-to-end portfolio project management, governance, prioritization, and accountability while ensuring an outcome and value realization centric focus. The Director will partner closely with Executive Leadership, Commercial, Marketing, Operations, R&D, and Finance to ensure alignment of project investments with business strategy, optimize portfolio performance, and deliver measurable results. This role reports into the VP, IBP, Demand Planning, & Operations Excellence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Operations, Finance or related field.
10+ years of experience in the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) or adjacent industry with direct Project, Portfolio, and Program Management experience.
5+ years of experience managing multiple direct reports.
Demonstrated success managing large, complex cross-functional initiatives and strategic transformation programs.
Strong understanding of portfolio management, governance frameworks, resource planning, financial management and risk management.
Experience presenting to and influencing executive leadership teams.
Project and portfolio management tool experience (e.g. Smartsheet).
Ability to influence senior leaders.
Strong enterprise acumen, connecting supply chain understanding and P&L management.
Data driven adept at analytics.
Learning and growth mindset.
Bring people along – customer oriented and team player.
Demonstrated excellent verbal/written communication skills.
Ability to work with ambiguity – can effectively cope with change, risk, and uncertainty.
Ability to prioritize and demonstrate excellent time management.
Ability to drive change and bring others along.
Ability to work independently and form business and technical solutions.
High attention to detail and meticulous.
Embody a growth mindset, see challenges as opportunities to develop, and find innovative ways to get the real work that matters done.
Enterprise-wide savvy and view.
Radical Candor (i.e., care personally and challenge directly).
Be a builder.
Bring people along.
Influence and inspire.

Nice To Haves

If you embody a growth mindset, see challenges as opportunities to develop, and find innovative ways to get the real work that matters done, you sound like our kind of candidate!

Responsibilities

Leading and developing a high-performing PMO team, fostering continuous improvement, accountability, and trusted partnerships across cross-functional stakeholders.
Delivering end-to-end portfolio project management from projection initiation through 3-6 months post launch.
Measuring value realization and providing “learn forward” guidance to inform future strategy.
Developing best practice design and continuous improvement for the Stage Gate, Portfolio Management Review, Innovation Team Meeting, and Project Management Tools.
Organizing strategic portfolio planning across the rolling 3-year horizon.
Serving as a key enterprise thought partner to Strategy, R&I, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain by providing visibility and assessment against portfolio health, driving delivery excellence, assessing business value realization, and ensuring PMO effectiveness.
Lead the enterprise project portfolio management process, ensuring alignment with corporate strategic priorities and annual business objectives leveraging the monthly Portfolio Management Review forum in the Integrated Business Planning process.
Establish and maintain portfolio governance frameworks, stage-gate processes, project prioritization methodologies, and executive reporting standards.
Facilitate portfolio reviews with senior leadership to evaluate project health, resource allocation, risks, dependencies, and investment decisions.
Drive balancing of project portfolios across innovation, growth, cost savings, productivity, compliance, and transformational initiatives.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on portfolio health, project investment decisions, and strategic execution.
Partner with functional leaders to optimize resource allocation across competing priorities.
Evaluate project demand versus organizational capacity and recommend prioritization adjustments.
Ensure efficient utilization of internal and external project resources.
Assess project business cases, ROI, resource requirements, and strategic alignment to support informed decision-making.
Facilitate executive-level conversations, translating measures into actionable insights and learn forward recommendations for future portfolio initiatives.
Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and quality expectations.
Monitor portfolio performance through KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting mechanisms.
Identify, escalate, and mitigate portfolio-level risks and interdependencies.
Establish and manage a Benefits Realization framework, ensuring expected business outcomes are measured and achieved post-launch.
Champion adoption of best practices in project management, program management, and organizational change management.
Provide strong leadership and mentorship to a team of five project management professionals, fostering growth, collaboration, and high performance.
Set clear performance expectations and hold regular check-ins to drive accountability, progress toward goals, and continuous skill development.
Cultivate a “builder” mindset by promoting continuous learning, curiosity, and process improvement across the team.
Define and execute a multi-year PMO maturity roadmap focused on governance, analytics, technology, capabilities, and organizational effectiveness.
Build a robust succession pipeline through targeted coaching, structured development plans, and ongoing skill-building opportunities.
Standardize PMO methodologies, tools, templates, and performance metrics.
Lead initiatives to improve project delivery effectiveness and organizational agility.
Implement portfolio management technologies, reporting tools, and governance processes to enhance visibility and decision-making.
Benchmark industry best practices and incorporate leading project management approaches where applicable.
Define and operationalize measures across Portfolio Health, Delivery Excellence, Business Value Realization, and PMO Effectiveness.
Attending industry conferences to learn new best-in-class capability, process, and tools.
Participating in company-wide activities and events galore.
Impromptu conversations with colleagues.
Administrative work such as calendaring and expense reports, and other non-value-added work.