What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project manager - DCX position at Sumeru?
Role: IT Project Manager V
Business Unit: Digital Customer Experience
Location: Rosemead, CA (Hybrid Onsite Tuesday & Wednesday)
Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload
- Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
- Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the Customer Service view with IT reporting.
- Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
- Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
- Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
- Coordinate vendor and contract oversight with Customer Service, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
- Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the existing DXR PMO.
- Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
- Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.
Required Skills/Attributes
- Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
- Joint business and IT PMO experience.
- Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
- Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
- Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
- Multi-vendor technology-transformation experience.
- Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
- Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.
Desired Skills/Attributes
- Utility or other regulated-industry experience.
- Customer-service technology experience, including conversational AI, contact-center platforms, billing, collections, SAP, or related systems.
- Experience mobilizing a new PMO and leaving a sustainable operating model.
- Familiarity with enterprise portfolio tools and governance forums comparable to SCE.
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on artifact creation.