Technology PMO Manager

American Electric Power • Columbus, OH

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Technology PMO Manager leads a team responsible for defining delivery practices, implementing scalable progress tracking, and driving continuous improvement across a very large enterprise portfolio that includes hundreds of systems and projects. This role places heavy emphasis on portfolio financial controls and enterprise resource management in addition to delivery governance — ensuring cost to complete visibility, optimized staffing/contractor allocation, and disciplined execution to protect schedule, budget and business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or related technical field is required. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
• In addition to any experience required above, 8 or more years of technology experience; 4-6 years of direct supervision experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Proven expertise in project and program management methodologies.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing multimillion dollar IT or business portfolios.
• Demonstrated success in portfolio governance, risk management, and executive level reporting.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into insights for decision making.
• Background in IT applications, infrastructure, security, or digital transformation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring alignment of projects with strategic goals, budget, and timelines.
• Establish and enforce project management standards, methodologies, and best practices across IT.
• Drive accurate forecasting and financial discipline across IT.
• Articulate the impacts of project variances to the capital and O&M budgets.
• Monitor and report on portfolio performance, providing transparency to senior leadership on portfolio health such that they can report on risks, dependencies and value delivery.
• Coordinate resource planning, capacity management, and prioritization of initiatives across cross-functional IT teams.
• Implement governance processes for intake, approval, and execution of projects, balancing agility with control.
• Provide coaching and leadership to delivery teams, building organizational capabilities.

Benefits

• In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager