About this role
Position Title: Director, IT Business Operations and PMO About Advanced Energy Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.
Position Summary
Advanced Energy is seeking a Director of IT Business Operations & PMO to transform how the global IT organization prioritizes investments, governs delivery, and turns portfolio information into action. Reporting directly to the EVP & CIO, this leader will balance two connected mandates: lead a business-oriented IT PMO and strengthen the IT leadership team’s operating model. The Director will establish clear visibility into priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, resources, and financial considerations. The role also owns selected IT business operations, including leadership governance, executive and Board communications, budget coordination, cross-functional follow-through, and process improvement.
Responsibilities PMO and Portfolio Transformation
- Transform the IT PMO into a business-oriented function focused on decisions, delivery, and measurable value.
- Maintain a decision-ready view of the IT portfolio, including priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, resources, and financial considerations.
- Establish proportionate governance based on each initiative’s size, complexity, risk, and business impact.
- Partner with IT leaders to assign clear delivery ownership and determine which initiatives require dedicated project management.
- Govern a portfolio of approximately 10–15 major or complex IT initiatives through the PMO and accountable delivery leaders.
- Strengthen ownership, escalation, risk management, and delivery predictability across the portfolio.
- Lead and develop a geographically distributed project management team.
- Establish portfolio performance metrics and value-realization measures that enable leadership to assess investment outcomes and business impact.
- Drive portfolio prioritization decisions by evaluating strategic alignment, capacity, risk, financial return, and organizational readiness. IT Operating and Financial Discipline
- Oversee the custom platform used to manage projects, resources, and time.
- Improve the accuracy and usefulness of portfolio, resource, time, and financial information.
- Partner with Finance and IT leaders to strengthen project financial tracking, budget visibility, forecasting, and resource planning.
- Simplify and automate PMO and IT operational processes.
- Translate portfolio data into concise insights and recommendations for IT leadership. Executive Governance and Communications
- Establish an effective operating rhythm for strategic, operational, and weekly IT leadership meetings.
- Convert leadership decisions into clear ownership, actions, and follow-through.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CIO by developing executive communications, Board materials, strategic narratives, and decision-support analyses that enable effective governance and enterprise decision-making.
- Translate complex technology information into concise, business-oriented narratives.
- Drive priorities and initiatives that span IT functions or lack a natural organizational owner.
- Oversee selected IT budget-tracking, financial coordination, and administrative processes.
- Lead and develop teams responsible for PMO, IT business operations, portfolio governance, and financial management, fostering accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Required
- 10+ years of leadership experience in an IT PMO, technology portfolio management, program management, or a related IT function.
- Experience leading complex technology initiatives across functions and stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated ability to apply project and portfolio disciplines proportionately rather than through a one-size-fits-all methodology.
- Experience with project budgets, resource planning, portfolio reporting, or IT financial management.
- Experience presenting to executive leadership teams and influencing strategic decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering, finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. Preferred
- Experience supporting a CIO or senior IT leadership team.
- Experience developing executive or Board-level technology communications.
- Experience transforming or redesigning an established PMO.
- Experience working across cultures and time zones in a global technology organization.
- Experience with portfolio, resource-management, financial-management, or time-reporting systems.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate will
- Put business value and outcomes ahead of process while applying governance where it reduces risk.
- Balance strategic perspective with disciplined attention to operational detail.
- Build trust through collaboration, credibility, and sound judgment.
- Challenge established practices constructively and influence without formal authority.
- Communicate complex information clearly, directly, and for the intended audience.
- Bring curiosity, adaptability, ownership, and energy to improving how the organization operates.
- Demonstrate business and financial acumen in prioritizing technology investments and resource allocation.
- Drive accountability through clear governance, performance measures, and decision frameworks.
As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees in order to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate. Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your application in accordance with the RA No. 10173 also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012.