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:
โข Own the operating mechanisms that translate IT strategy into investment, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery decisions across the IT organization.
โข Ensure funded initiatives and active work are aligned to declared strategic priorities and defined value outcomes, and surface misalignment for leadership action.
โข Establish and enforce constraints on funding, capacity, and sequencing to prevent strategic dilution and delivery thrash.
โข Implement value realization discipline, including upfront value hypotheses, in-flight inspection, and post-delivery review for material IT initiatives.
โข Maintain a CIO-level view of initiative coherence, overload, drift, and value erosion across the IT initiative landscape.
โข Serve as the CIOโs control plane for execution governance, ensuring leadership attention is applied to systemic issues rather than recurring operational noise.
โข Own the governance model for PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, ensuring these functions operate as a coherent system rather than parallel reporting lanes.
โข Hold PMO, VMO, and IT Finance leaders accountable for producing decision-quality inputs that support prioritization and tradeoff decisions, not just reporting.
โข Integrate financial, delivery, and vendor performance data to improve prioritization quality and investment tradeoff decisions.
โข Ensure organizational change impact and adoption requirements are explicitly accounted for in initiative approval, funding, sequencing, and value realization governance.
โข Lead IT integration governance for acquisitions, ensuring integration priorities, funding, sequencing, and execution risks are explicitly managed.
โข Ensure acquisition integration work adheres to the same strategy alignment, constraint discipline, and value realization standards as the rest of the IT initiative landscape.
โข Identify systemic delivery, vendor, and prioritization failure patterns and drive changes to operating rules, governance, or escalation paths to prevent recurrence.
โข Define, design, and execute additional operating model and governance improvements as directed by the Director, IT Transformation and the CIO.
โข Synthesize tower-level strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps into a coherent enterprise IT strategy narrative and consolidated multi-horizon roadmap for executive consumption.
โข Own the IT strategy planning cadence, including preparation of CIO and IT leadership materials for executive forums, planning cycles, and strategy reviews.
โข Develop executive-grade strategy artifacts (decks, narratives, roadmaps) that clearly articulate tradeoffs, sequencing, investment themes, and expected value.
โข Frame strategic options and scenarios for leadership by modeling capacity, funding, risk, and value implications of competing priorities.
Qualifications:
Required:
โข 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.
โข Demonstrated experience designing and operating governance mechanisms that improved execution stability and reduced leadership escalation load.
โข Experience integrating financial management, delivery governance, and vendor management into a coherent decision-support system.
โข Track record of enforcing prioritization discipline and making tradeoffs explicit in constrained environments.
โข Experience operationalizing strategy through funding, gating, sequencing, and value realization mechanisms.
โข Strong financial and investment acumen, with the ability to frame tradeoffs using budget, capacity, and delivery risk data.
โข Ability to operate at the CIO agenda level with credibility and independence.
โข Strong systems thinking capability, with experience changing operating rules to improve execution outcomes.
โข Ability to build effective working relationships across IT towers, finance, and business stakeholders to drive alignment without relying on authority alone.
โข Clear executive communication skills, including the ability to surface uncomfortable truths with evidence.
โข Demonstrated ability to create executive-level strategy narratives, planning materials, and consolidated roadmaps.
โข 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.