RDO Governance & Value Delivery Manager

Rockwell Automation•Milwaukee, WI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The RDO Governance & Value Delivery Manager is part of Rockwell Automation’s IT Results Delivery Office and strengthens independent governance, assurance, and value-realization capabilities across strategic programs and projects. The role partners with Program and Project Managers, business sponsors, Finance, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk and Controls, Sourcing, and other enterprise functions to support compliance with applicable IT policies, the PM Playbook, CIO Design Authority expectations, and the RDO Playbook. This includes applying appropriate evidence, decision rights, gates, and escalation processes while tracking outcomes; delivery leaders retain accountability for daily execution. The position reports to the Director of IT Business Operations and Results Delivery Office and is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy expects employees to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office. The position is part of a job family, with experience determining position level and compensation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
Legal authorization to work in the United States; employment visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
Excellent executive presentation skills, including the ability to challenge constructively, surface risks early, distinguish evidence from status narrative, and recommend corrective action.
Ability to balance delivery speed with governance rigor and apply requirements proportionately based on risk, complexity, funding, and business impact.

Nice To Haves

Typically requires at least 12 years of experience leading or governing complex IT/business programs, transformation programs, portfolios, or enterprise PMO/RDO activities.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience with program governance, stage/control gates, policy and standards compliance, benefits realization, business cases, ROI/financial management, risk management, and executive reporting.
Project Management Institute (PMI)/Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strongly preferred.
Credentials in Lean Six Sigma, ITIL, Agile, risk, audit, finance, or change management are a plus.
Experience establishing measurable benefits, validated baselines, named benefit owners, targets, realization timelines, and post-implementation benefit tracking.
Experience leading in Agile and hybrid delivery environments and translating policies and enterprise standards into practical, repeatable execution controls.

Responsibilities

Provide governance and benefits-realization expertise across IT programs and transformation plans while remaining appropriately independent from daily delivery ownership.
Assess program adherence to applicable IT policies, standards, the PM Playbook, RDO Playbook, and required governance artifacts from initiation through closure and sustainment.
Coordinate governance and control-gate readiness reviews; verify required artifacts and evidence, identify gaps, and provide readiness recommendations and corrective actions to RDO and governance forums.
Monitor governance structures, decision rights, escalation paths, steering committees, change control, RAID management, and required reporting cadences; escalate material non-compliance or unresolved risks.
Lead benefits-realization assurance by tracing approved business cases and ROI assumptions to named benefits, baselines, targets, owners, timing, and actual results.
Ensure program change requests explain the effects of scope, schedule, funding, and resource changes on committed outcomes, ROI, benefit timing, and approved baselines.
Identify cross-program dependencies, systemic governance gaps, recurring failure modes, and process-improvement opportunities; recommend updates to RDO standards, controls, templates, training, and guides.
Coach Program Managers, sponsors, and teams on governance expectations and required artifacts without taking ownership of their delivery responsibilities.
Support executive governance forums with concise analysis of exceptions, unresolved risks, benefit performance, required decisions, and recommended interventions.