The role you're interested in...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 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, driving 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 our VP, IBP, Demand Planning, & Operations Excellence.
Key areas of focus include:
- 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.
The work environment...So, what's it like to work here? If you're based in the greater Bay Area, you'll walk into our Emeryville office each Tuesday morning and start the in-person portion of our hybrid work week at our weekly all-company meeting and find close to 200 of your colleagues, some sitting with their dogs, talking excitedly through the week ahead and watching a newer teammate tell their personal life and career journey followed by a quick update on any hot topics that might be relevant to the week ahead.
We are a dynamic, HYBRID workplace, with an expectation that all employees come into the office Tuesday through Thursday. We are very intentional about connecting in person for things like innovation, impromptu collaboration, having respectful challenges to get to better decisions, leadership role-modeling, and culture building. Great work cultures are built on stories about what great looks like in practice, and great stories during virtual meetings just don't happen. The expected pay scale for this role is $200k to $220k, which may vary based on relevant experience, qualifications, geographic area (if applicable), and internal equity for the role.
At the beginning of 2026, we moved into our massive modern 133,000 square foot headquarters in Emeryville, California, complete with spacious personal workspaces, gym with rock-climbing wall, a café, free onsite parking, tons of greenery, and many transportation options.
You're excited about this opportunity because your time will be filled with... Portfolio Strategy & Governance: 30% of your time
- 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
Project & Program Leadership: 25% of your time
- 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.
Team Leadership & Development: 25% of your time
- 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.
Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement: 15% of Time
- 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
The daily stuff that everyone does but few quantify: 5% of Time
- 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.
What are we looking for?Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Operations, Finance or related field
Experience:
- 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)
Skills and mindset:
- 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.
So, if after reading through this long list you're thinking-I'm not sure I meet 100% of these requirements, should I still apply? YES-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!
The 5 capabilities or mindsets most relevant to this role:- Enterprise-wide savvy and view
- Radical Candor (i.e., care personally and challenge directly)
- Be a builder
- Bring people along
- Influence and inspire
You will thrive here and may just do the best work of your life if...- You want to be an integral part of shaping and nurturing an amazing work culture.
- You can be flexible in your approach to people challenges and abandon past practices if they don't make sense or would lead to a poor outcome.
- You are comfortable being natural, casual, open, and even a bit playful at work.
- You don't have a big ego and hate siloed thinking.
- You like to get sh*t, I mean-stuff done.
- You can be friendly, vulnerable, and self-deprecating in one moment, and deal with a challenging, delicate people-related matter as a professional in the next.
- You can do periods of focused, deep work on projects that drive the needle.
This may not be your ideal next career move if you like...- ...a lot of structure, rules, and uniformity
- ...a lot of command and control management
- ...a "big company" impersonal, cog-in-the-machine vibe-that ain't us
- ...to build a beautiful, orderly bureaucracy
- ... things to not change much (we suggest the elevator business for that)
- ...workplaces where there isn't much ambiguity
- ...to resolve challenging interpersonal situations over instant messaging
- ...to work in your own "silo-of-excellence"
- ...hiding at home with your camera off, better yet, on mute, and demonstrating excellence through email
- ...to chase whatever shiny object presents itself during the day instead of real results through focus
Here's the deal with our not-so-standard, um...standard interview process because we know you are the curious type, which is why 
