The Manager-Strategy PMO is responsible for driving alignment and consistency across the implementation portfolio while supporting change management and training efforts. This role works closely with senior leadership to ensure initiatives are aligned with strategic priorities and delivered effectively. Acting as a central point of coordination, the role guides cross-functional teams, monitors progress, manages risks, and ensures timely execution. It also fosters strong engagement across the organization to support successful adoption and value delivery. Overall, this position helps translate strategy into action, ensuring initiatives stay on track and deliver meaningful business impact.
- Assist development of PMO methodologies, standards & tools/templates; ensure consistency across workstream and initiatives on transformation methodologies
- Work directly with workstream leaders to assist with day-to-day change programs; assist with organizing and delivery of centralized training and development of PMO support resources
- Play an active challenger role in supporting workstreams and initiatives; support pressure testing and partnership for workstreams & initiatives
- Provide line of sight and exception-based reporting to Director, Strategy PMO on program progress, and support on tool usage questions
- Escalate issues with a predictive, forward-looking nature
- Support informed decision making on PMO investment decisions and process
- Provide thoughtful pressure-testing through business case process
- Connect Initiative teams with Finance Liaisons to ensure correct processing
- Help to engage cross-functional partners are effectively across organization
- Engage cross-functional support for guidance where needed across multiple workstreams
- Monitor and mitigate program risk/issues
- Support Initiative Owners navigating the PMO processes
- Support workstreams on technical questions related to business cases, roadmaps, Key, etc.
- In working sessions, provide feedback on direction set by Workstream leaders and Initiative owners
- Owns the reporting and organization streamlining to for workstreams & initiatives
- Influences tools and templates, training and development, roadmap and milestone preparation, development of minimum viable initiatives
- Other duties as assigned.
- Understanding of company strategy and how specific workstreams and initiatives align with organizational goals. Ability to forecast performance and recommend interventions when necessary.
- Deep financial and business acumen, with an understanding of how the company generates and spends money, and how strategic metrics translate into financial and operational outcomes.
- Proven experience leading large-scale transformation efforts with a track record of delivering measurable results in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action, able to make decisions with limited information and focus on driving outcomes, even when risks are involved.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and prioritize the right solutions over the easiest answers, working closely with senior leadership and initiative owners.
- A strong collaborator with a proven track record of breaking down silos and driving cross-functional value.
- Demonstrated credibility and the ability to influence and lead difficult conversations with senior leaders across the organization.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage resources, track progress, and ensure processes are executed on time and to specification.
Work Environment:
- Exposure to computer screens.
- The noise level in work environment is usually moderate.
- Required hybrid work schedule, at least 3 days/week in office.
- Required job duties are performed in a professional office environment
We are Equal Opportunity Employer
Pay Range$137,000 - 160,000 per year
Compensation & BenefitsEligible employees (and their families) may qualify for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as having basic life and accidental death insurance, paid disability insurance, including paid parental leave if eligible, and an Employee Assistance Program. Employees will receive paid sick and vacation time, and company holidays if eligible. The company also offers paid bereavement leave, and paid jury duty. Eligible employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan, as well as a retirement plan. Employees will be eligible for discretionary and/or metric-based bonuses dependent on their position.Top Skills
What We Do
Founded by Fred R. Smith in 1949 as Bellingham Stevedoring Company, we began our first cargo handling operations in a small corner of Washington State. Driven by a pioneering spirit, our family-owned company saw steady growth over the years, expanding up and down the West Coast to operate a significant market share of the major international terminals in the eastern Pacific. Today, we have become a global enterprise spanning more than 260 locations across five continents. We continue to broaden our reach by developing new locations and upgrading existing facilities, providing some of the most technologically advanced facilities in the world. We partner to move commerce with efficiency, flexibility, and integrity. With operations across five continents and a vast network of interconnected transportation solutions, we open new opportunities that accelerate the growth and pace of global business. Improving the customer experience is at the heart of everything we do, so we make purposeful investments in people, facilities and technical innovations that deliver the greatest customer value.








