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You will play a meaningful role leading the Project Management Office (PMO) support of Apple’s Operations project teams. We are looking for a candidate to lead the PMO team to drive a range of capabilities from supporting strategic planning, through portfolio management and governance, to supporting individual project requests for support!

The PMO is a supporting function for the global Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) teams. These BPR teams are the project and business change management function within Apple Operations.

Our PMO has several key responsibilities:

1. Strategy & Planning:
• Enable BPR Leaders to make the best Investment Decisions to deliver high ROI solutions
• Driving strategic alignment through multi-year road-mapping and through leading the annual capital planning process for Operations.
• Drive standardization and professional representation of BPR to the rest of Apple (executive presentations)


2. Execution: Drive Operational Efficiencies and reduce risk across the Portfolio
• Owning execution at the portfolio level – reporting, cross portfolio impact assessment.
• Develop systems and processes to drive and measure ongoing efficiencies and deliver benefits.
• Establish Program Lifecycle Methodologies relevant to BPR, Templates, Operating structure and drive key measures for program rigor. Lead change management across all program teams within BPR. Train and mentor BPR team members on how to assure project delivery at Apple.
• On a day-to-day basis drive ongoing portfolio management processes such as monitoring the health of the portfolio and status, highlighting critical issues & exceptions for mitigation.
• As a added responsibility, there is change required to continue to mature and hone the tools, methods, and techniques which we make available to all BPR teams.

3. Setting the standards and tools via which BPR completes its work:
• Drive the management system which the BPR teams utilize to stay aligned and communicate internally.
• Act as a program management function for key cross functional initiatives within Operations.

4. People
• Lead and support programs to enrich the “People Experience” and enhance their core competencies
• Facilitate the management system to drive learnings ongoing for employees on key topics e.g. Presentation skills, new hire induction, workshops and more

7+ years experience in managing and leading high performing teamsBachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field required. MBA or Master’s degree preferred.Deep understanding of project, program and portfolio planning and delivery to the level that they can set standards, propose policy, and mentor others.Proven understanding of end-to-end business processes of a manufacturing business, from sales through the supply chain.