Manager Information Technology Jobs in Rochester, MI

Job Summary:
PHINIA is an independent, market-leading provider of premium solutions and components focused on sustainability. The Senior Manager will oversee IT strategy governance, ensuring alignment of funding and resources, while enhancing decision-making processes across the IT organization.
Responsibilities:
• Own the operating mechanisms that translate IT strategy into investment, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery decisions across the IT organization.
• Ensure funded initiatives and active work are aligned to declared strategic priorities and defined value outcomes, and surface misalignment for leadership action.
• Establish and enforce constraints on funding, capacity, and sequencing to prevent strategic dilution and delivery thrash.
• Implement value realization discipline, including upfront value hypotheses, in-flight inspection, and post-delivery review for material IT initiatives.
• Maintain a CIO-level view of initiative coherence, overload, drift, and value erosion across the IT initiative landscape.
• Serve as the CIO’s control plane for execution governance, ensuring leadership attention is applied to systemic issues rather than recurring operational noise.
• Own the governance model for PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, ensuring these functions operate as a coherent system rather than parallel reporting lanes.
• Hold PMO, VMO, and IT Finance leaders accountable for producing decision-quality inputs that support prioritization and tradeoff decisions, not just reporting.
• Integrate financial, delivery, and vendor performance data to improve prioritization quality and investment tradeoff decisions.
• Ensure organizational change impact and adoption requirements are explicitly accounted for in initiative approval, funding, sequencing, and value realization governance.
• Lead IT integration governance for acquisitions, ensuring integration priorities, funding, sequencing, and execution risks are explicitly managed.
• Ensure acquisition integration work adheres to the same strategy alignment, constraint discipline, and value realization standards as the rest of the IT initiative landscape.
• Identify systemic delivery, vendor, and prioritization failure patterns and drive changes to operating rules, governance, or escalation paths to prevent recurrence.
• Define, design, and execute additional operating model and governance improvements as directed by the Director, IT Transformation and the CIO.
• Synthesize tower-level strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps into a coherent enterprise IT strategy narrative and consolidated multi-horizon roadmap for executive consumption.
• Own the IT strategy planning cadence, including preparation of CIO and IT leadership materials for executive forums, planning cycles, and strategy reviews.
• Develop executive-grade strategy artifacts (decks, narratives, roadmaps) that clearly articulate tradeoffs, sequencing, investment themes, and expected value.
• Frame strategic options and scenarios for leadership by modeling capacity, funding, risk, and value implications of competing priorities.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in enterprise IT leadership, transformation, operating model, execution governance, or management consulting roles with direct exposure to enterprise IT strategy and planning.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating governance mechanisms that improved execution stability and reduced leadership escalation load.
• Experience integrating financial management, delivery governance, and vendor management into a coherent decision-support system.
• Track record of enforcing prioritization discipline and making tradeoffs explicit in constrained environments.
• Experience operationalizing strategy through funding, gating, sequencing, and value realization mechanisms.
• Strong financial and investment acumen, with the ability to frame tradeoffs using budget, capacity, and delivery risk data.
• Ability to operate at the CIO agenda level with credibility and independence.
• Strong systems thinking capability, with experience changing operating rules to improve execution outcomes.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across IT towers, finance, and business stakeholders to drive alignment without relying on authority alone.
• Clear executive communication skills, including the ability to surface uncomfortable truths with evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to create executive-level strategy narratives, planning materials, and consolidated roadmaps.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.
Company:
PHINIA specializes in developing fuel injection equipment solution, gasoline direct injection systems, and electrical systems. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Auburn Hills, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.