Vice President of Strategic Management Projects
United States · Part Time
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- 20+ yrs
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- 3 days ago
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Job description
About the Company
The organization is a forward-looking technology business working at the intersection of encryption, new energy, and digital infrastructure. Its focus is on combining blockchain, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, big data, and related technologies to make energy systems more intelligent, connected, efficient, and sustainable.
The company develops technology for a range of new energy use cases, including clean energy, energy storage, smart grids, digital energy operations, green infrastructure, and energy network coordination. Its platform approach brings together data handling, device connectivity, smart monitoring, system orchestration, and operational optimization to help modernize traditional energy systems.
By applying encryption methods, distributed architectures, and intelligent computing, the business aims to support secure data exchange, identity verification, shared information flows, energy coordination, and intelligent operations and maintenance for new energy enterprises. It is also building smart energy networks, Web3-oriented ecosystems, and next-generation digital infrastructure to support global green energy transformation.
Role Overview
The Vice President of Strategic Program Management is responsible for leading the company’s strategic program portfolio and ensuring that major initiatives are planned, coordinated, and delivered successfully from start to finish. The position sits at the crossroads of strategy execution, program management, and business governance, with oversight of complex initiatives that cut across departments, locations, and functions.
This role typically reports to the CEO, CSO, or COO and acts as a central coordination point within the organization’s strategic execution structure.
Key Responsibilities
You will be expected to manage strategic programs, align them with business goals, and keep delivery on track through strong governance, coordination, and decision-making.
- Oversee the company’s strategic program portfolio and decide priorities across initiatives.
- Allocate resources effectively and keep programs aligned with overall corporate objectives.
- Balance immediate delivery needs with longer-term strategic goals and adjust the portfolio structure as needed.
- Lead the execution of major company-wide programs from planning through completion.
- Set delivery plans, milestones, quality standards, and program controls.
- Track progress, costs, and output quality, and take corrective action when performance slips.
- Coordinate work across Product, Technology, Operations, Sales, and Marketing teams.
- Resolve priority conflicts and resource bottlenecks between departments.
- Create collaboration mechanisms that improve consistency in execution across the organization.
- Build and improve the enterprise PMO framework, including standards, methods, and governance practices.
- Introduce project management processes that are more standardized, structured, and scalable.
- Set up a monitoring dashboard for strategic execution and regularly review project status with senior leadership.
- Surface risks, delivery blockers, and gaps, and recommend strategic course corrections.
- Identify major execution risks and design mitigation plans and response actions.
- Manage urgent issues and crisis situations so critical programs continue moving forward.
- Optimize budgets, staffing, and resource use for strategic initiatives.
- Ensure important projects receive the right level of organizational support.
- Coordinate strategic programs across countries and regions while maintaining consistent delivery standards.
- Support internationalization efforts and cross-border teamwork.
- Build KPI systems to measure program performance, delivery efficiency, and success rates.
- Use data to support decisions and drive continuous improvement in project execution.
- Develop a high-performance project culture and strengthen the organization’s ability to deliver strategically.
- Train project talent, promote best practices, and help create a repeatable execution model.
Requirements
Ideal candidates should bring deep senior-level experience in strategy and program management, along with the ability to operate in complex, high-pressure environments.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Management, Engineering Management, Information Systems, Economics, or a related field.
- MBA preferred.
- At least 20 years of experience in project management or strategic management.
- Minimum 15 years of senior management experience at Director or VP level.
- Prior exposure to large-scale, multinational, or highly complex projects is preferred.
- Experience building PMO structures or strategic execution systems is preferred.
- Background in technology, healthcare, biopharma, or fintech is preferred.
- Strong strategic program leadership and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Experience establishing PMO standards, governance, and management frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving, risk management, and crisis-handling ability.
- Comfort with data analysis, performance tracking, and evidence-based decisions.
- Ability to manage resources and influence organizational governance.
- Capability to perform effectively in demanding, high-pressure settings.
- Preferred certifications include PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, and PMI-ACP.
- Familiarity with Agile methods such as Scrum, as well as traditional project management approaches, is preferred.
- Experience with digital transformation work and global multi-region project delivery is preferred.
- Consulting experience, including exposure to firms such as McKinsey or BCG, is preferred.
- Working knowledge of project tools such as Jira, MS Project, and Asana is preferred.
Performance Focus
The role is assessed through strategic delivery outcomes, execution quality, and organizational capability improvements.
- On-time delivery rate for strategic projects.
- Budget adherence across strategic programs.
- Program success rate.
- Achievement rate of strategic business goals.
- Efficiency of cross-department collaboration.
- Rate of project-related risks and issues.
- Resource utilization effectiveness.
- Improvement in PMO maturity.
Additional Information
No salary, stipend, application deadline, number of openings, or start date was provided in the source details. The role is listed as part-time and onsite in the United States.