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Position Summary:
The IT PMO owns China IT project governance and leads selected strategic digital and IT initiatives end to end. In addition to portfolio governance, the role serves as a hands-on project manager for complex cross-functional programs, ensuring alignment with Global IT PMO requirements and delivery on time, within scope, budget, and quality expectations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own China IT portfolio governance, including project intake, prioritization, status tracking, risk management, and executive reporting.
- Implement Global IT PMO standards locally and provide ongoing visibility of China project progress, risks, and escalations.
- Govern the Digital Transformation portfolio, coordinate cross-functional delivery, and facilitate steering committee reviews to drive timely decisions and resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Act as end-to-end project manager for complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring delivery on scope, timeline, budget, and quality.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, vendor deliverables, and resource requirements in alignment with approved business cases and China IT financial governance.
- Provide clear project status, decisions, risks, issues, and accomplishments to senior stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate project and portfolio information in Planview, Power BI, and other approved tools.
- Provide project management training and coaching to China IT project leads.
Experience & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree; IT, engineering, or related discipline preferred.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in IT project, program, or portfolio management.
- Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with local and global stakeholders.
- Ability to translate business objectives into executable project plans and drive disciplined delivery.
- Strong capability in portfolio governance, steering committee facilitation, and risk escalation.
- Strong stakeholder management, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Chinese and English.
- PMP certification preferred; Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Six Sigma certification is a plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum 7 years of experience in IT project, program, or portfolio management
- Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with local and global stakeholders
- Portfolio governance experience: project intake, prioritization, status tracking, risk management, executive reporting
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, vendor deliverables, and resource requirements
- Maintain accurate project and portfolio information in Planview and Power BI
- Provide project management training and coaching to China IT project leads
- Fluent written and verbal communication in Chinese and English
- PMP certification
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Six Sigma certification
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
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