Vice President, Project Management Office - Industrial/Engineering

Graham Packaging is a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing, committed to a people and values-based culture. The Vice President, Project Management Office (PMO) will lead enterprise-wide project management practices, ensuring successful project delivery aligned with organizational priorities while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the enterprise PMO strategy, operating model, governance framework, and project delivery standards
• Provide oversight and governance across all organizational projects and programs to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, priorities, budgets, and timelines
• Define and maintain project management methodologies, templates, stage-gate processes, reporting standards, and governance controls
• Ensure consistent project execution practices at the corporate level and across business units while maintaining the uncompromising commitment to safety and allowing flexibility for business unit-specific operational needs
• Chair or support project governance forums, steering committees, and executive portfolio reviews
• Lead the ongoing maturation of project management capabilities across the organization
• Develop and implement a roadmap for improving project management discipline, delivery predictability, resource planning, and risk management
• Establish project management competency models, career development paths, and best practice standards for project managers
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with business unit project managers responsible for BU-specific initiatives and delivery execution
• Promote the ongoing alignment of cross-functional stakeholders (operations, engineering, safety, quality, commercial) to project objectives
• Provide guidance, coaching, and support to business unit PMs to strengthen project planning, execution, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and reporting practices
• Facilitate cross-functional coordination and alignment across projects with shared dependencies or enterprise impact
• Support escalation management and resolution of project delivery challenges
• Continuously assess and improve project management processes, tools, governance, and delivery effectiveness
• Develop and lead project management training programs, workshops, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Conduct project and process audits to ensure adherence to established standards, methodologies, and governance requirements
• Analyze project performance metrics, lessons learned, and organizational trends to identify opportunities for improvement
• Drive implementation of corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives based on audit findings and delivery outcomes
• Establish enterprise portfolio reporting, KPIs, dashboards, and executive-level project visibility
• Provide leadership with accurate and timely reporting on project health, risks, resource capacity, financial performance, and strategic alignment
• Support prioritization and investment decision-making through portfolio analysis and governance processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, project management, or related field required
• 12+ years of progressive project/program management leadership experience, including enterprise PMO leadership responsibilities
• Proven experience building or maturing PMO functions and enterprise project management capabilities
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, portfolio management, and experience with organizational change management practices, including ability to train others
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and engaging senior executives and business leaders
• Experience implementing project management standards, training programs, governance audits, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Experience utilizing a variety of tools, techniques and resources to apply to key activities such as scoping, requirements gathering, prioritization and traceability, root cause analysis, risk identification, analysis and management
• Master's degree
• PMP certification or equivalent
• Experience working with product development lifecycle processes and tools