The Associate Director of Program Management is responsible for leading a team of program and project managers at TUR8 Viessmann Isi Teknikleri Ticaret Limited Sirketi, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with strategic business objectives. This role plays a central part in coaching teams, managing portfolio risks, overseeing financial performance, and advancing PMO maturity.
What You'll Do
- Direct and support a team of program/project managers by providing coaching, development planning, and performance feedback.
- Build project management capabilities through training, knowledge-sharing, and fostering a culture of continuous growth.
- Promote consistency in project methodology, tools, and delivery excellence across the team.
- Align resource planning to portfolio priorities, identifying capacity constraints and enabling effective allocation.
- Partner with functional leaders to resolve staffing challenges and maximize team effectiveness.
- Identify and manage portfolio-level risks, dependencies, and issues across programs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to build mitigation plans and escalate critical concerns as needed.
- Oversee financial aspects of the portfolio, ensuring alignment with budget targets and ROI expectations.
- Partner with Finance and Product leads on cost-benefit analysis and strategic investment planning.
- Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and project delivery teams, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Provide clear updates on portfolio progress, challenges, and value delivery to executive leadership.
- Analyze delivery trends and outcomes to drive process improvements and portfolio optimization.
- Lead efforts to evolve tools, frameworks, and metrics that enhance effectiveness and maturity of the PMO.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 10+ years proven experience in Program Management using the best practices of Project Management in the software and/or hardware engineering field
- 5+ years team management experience of co-located, remote, and nearshore/offshore teams
Nice to Have
- Experience with Lean, Waterfall, New Product development
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Project management certification (PMP) a plus
- Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment where not all processes and procedures are clearly defined. Agility to change directions quickly as needed.
- Experience of working cross-functionally across multiple global teams and building consensus
- Experience of establishing and analyzing metrics and key performance indicators to manage the business
- Ability to diagnose problems, identify root causes, and develop and drive appropriate solutions.
- Proven experience in managing large scale enterprise projects
- Experience driving overall strategy and teams across organizations
Team & Environment
- Team of program/project managers
Benefits & Compensation
- Travel up to 25% on an as needed basis
- Great place to work that attracts, develops, and retains the best talent
- Promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork, and drives innovation
- Enriching career opportunities
- Diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation
- Best-in-class programs and practices
- Listening to employee feedback
- Challenging ourselves to do better
Work Mode
- Hybrid work model
- Travel up to 25% on an as needed basis
Carrier is committed to equal opportunity and inclusion. All qualified applications will be reviewed in compliance with regulations, and specific support will be provided upon hiring.
