Sr. Director IT Strategy & Planning

This role provides strategic IT leadership across project delivery, business analysis, and portfolio management functions. Responsible for leading the Project Management Office (PMO), this position ensures consistent execution of programs and initiatives that meet business priorities and performance standards in a dynamic and complex environment.

In addition, this role serves as a key liaison between IT and business leadership, driving strategic alignment between business goals and technology initiatives. Through proactive business relationship management, the role builds and maintains strong partnerships across the organization and supports multi-year roadmap planning to deliver new capabilities that drive business value.

Company Overview:  Beazer Homes is committed to employee wellbeing and life-work balance, offering development opportunities, a flexible time-off program, and an industry leading parental leave policy.

• Work closely with the CIO and direct reports to ensure alignment of functions.
• Responsible for establishing a repeatable IT strategic planning process, linked to both business and IT strategy.
• Plan and maintain a multi-year IT Project Roadmap (inclusive of YOY financial plans).
• Responsible for creating and executing an effective communication strategy to communicate to key business stakeholders and create alignment around the IT Strategic Plan.
• Manages the IT portfolio of project and program management services (project analysis, project execution, project delivery)
• Ensures that investments and initiatives in project management services are aligned with business strategy and priorities.
• Collaborates with the CIO, business unit leaders, and service managers to develop and manage project and program budgeting and cost estimation approaches, resource allocation, and reallocations.
• Prioritizes programs and projects based on company objectives dealing with changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.
• Monitors value metrics to inform decisions that maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs to present to the Governance Council.
• Monitors the delivery of business objectives and client experience for PPM services.
• Works with business unit leaders to develop project and program resourcing strategies to ensure optimum support for projects and for the day-to-day operational activities.
• Ensures adoption and implementation of project and program management methodology and oversees project and program management coaching,
• Ensures appropriate strategic solutions for business requirements are delivered and adopted to mitigate risk and remain a compliant company.
• Communicates and influences executive stakeholders at all levels across the Enterprise regarding case for change, innovative and compliance strategies, and short-term and long-term impact. 
• Manages with cross-functional business leaders to objectively analyze the organization’s ability to absorb change and adopt project and programs post deployment.
• Communicates status of the project and program portfolio to all stakeholders in business units and the CIO
• Defines principles and standards to harmonize project management methodologies from third party or external service providers.
• Manages resource capacity and allocation across the IT organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems or related technical field required.
• Understanding and experience using Project Management tools. PMP certification preferred.
• Demonstrable ability to establish and enforce effective PMO strategies, methodologies and processes.
• Excellent Leadership skills, relationship management skills as well as the ability to manage and motivate direct and indirect reports.
• Proven record of accomplishment leading and developing teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as excellent presentation skills with ability to conduct presentations comfortably to large groups and senior leaders.

• Typical office environment.

Additional Responsibilities 
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Additionally, an employee's job duties may change at any time, in the company's sole discretion.
 
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