Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

General Information

Job Name

Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

Country/Region

United States of America

State

California

City

Milpitas, CA

Work Location

Milpitas Office

Work Mode

Employees work on-site

Salary Range

$179,700.00 - $305,500.00

Exemption Status

Exempt

Business Function

Project & Program Management

Employment Type

Full-time

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Description

Role Summary

The Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) will establish and lead the enterprise-wide program and portfolio management capability for IT. This leader will create the operating model, governance, processes, standards, financial discipline, and management mechanisms required to translate strategic priorities into a well-defined, appropriately funded, and successfully executed portfolio of technology investments.

The Director will provide enterprise-level visibility and governance across major IT portfolios, including Enterprise Applications, Global Infrastructure Services, Information Security, Workspace Technology, Data & AI, and Manufacturing IT.

This role extends beyond traditional project management. The Director will establish an integrated portfolio management discipline encompassing annual operating planning (AOP), demand and intake management, investment prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio financial management, delivery governance, dependency management, risk management, and benefits realization.

Working closely with IT executives, Finance, business leaders, technology teams, and strategic partners, the Director will ensure resources and investments are directed toward the initiatives that deliver the greatest strategic and business value.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise PMO Strategy & Leadership

• Establish and lead the EPMO, including its operating model, governance structure, policies, methodologies, decision rights, performance standards, and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Develop a scalable program and portfolio management framework that provides appropriate governance without unnecessary administrative overhead.

• Establish clear roles and responsibilities across the EPMO, portfolio leaders, program and project managers, Finance, business stakeholders, technology teams, and executive sponsors.

• Build, mentor, develop, and lead a high-performing organization of Program Managers and Project Managers capable of managing complex, cross-functional, and global transformation programs.

• Establish competency standards for program and project leadership, including financial management, executive communication, risk management, dependency management, and business outcome accountability.

• Assess current PMO maturity and develop a multi-year roadmap toward a mature, integrated enterprise portfolio management capability.

• Drive consistent portfolio and delivery practices while allowing appropriate flexibility for Agile, product, infrastructure, cybersecurity, manufacturing technology, SaaS, ERP, and Data & AI delivery models.

• Act as a strategic advisor to IT leadership on portfolio health, execution capacity, systemic delivery risks, and organizational effectiveness.

2. Enterprise Portfolio Definition & Management

• Establish a structured enterprise portfolio taxonomy and a single, authoritative view of IT investments, programs, projects, strategic initiatives, and major technology commitments.

• Partner with IT portfolio leaders to define and maintain portfolios across Enterprise Applications, Global Infrastructure Services, Information Security, Workspace Technology, Data & AI, Manufacturing IT, and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

• Establish portfolio segmentation such as Run, Grow, Transform; mandatory versus discretionary; business versus technology driven; strategic versus operational; and risk/compliance investments.

• Implement a portfolio lifecycle covering Idea/Demand, Intake, Business Case, Prioritization, Funding, Planning, Execution, Benefits Realization, and Closure.

• Ensure every major initiative has clear ownership, investment requirements, strategic alignment, measurable outcomes, critical dependencies, and success criteria.

3. AOP, Demand & Investment Planning

• Lead the portfolio management components of annual IT planning and AOP, translating enterprise and IT strategic priorities into executable investment portfolios.

• Establish a standardized demand and project intake process to capture, assess, categorize, and prioritize proposed investments.

• Create transparent prioritization criteria incorporating strategic alignment, business value, financial return, risk reduction, regulatory requirements, technology modernization, cybersecurity exposure, capacity requirements, dependencies, and time-to-value.

• Create mechanisms for evaluating competing investment requests and supporting executives with fact-based investment trade-off decisions.

• Introduce periodic portfolio rebalancing so funding and resources can move as priorities, business needs, or execution conditions change.

• Ensure the AOP portfolio represents an executable plan rather than a collection of funded requests.

4. Capacity & Resource Planning

• Establish enterprise portfolio capacity planning that connects demand, funding, workforce capacity, critical skills, vendor capacity, and delivery commitments.

• Develop portfolio-level views of internal and external resource demand and capacity.

• Identify systemic resource constraints and capability gaps before they affect strategic program commitments.

• Partner with IT leadership, Workforce Planning, Finance, Procurement, and delivery organizations to address capacity gaps.

• Create scenario-planning capabilities to clarify what can be delivered with existing capacity, what requires incremental resources, which work should be delayed or deprioritized, and where work should be insourced, outsourced, or delivered through strategic partners.

5. Financial & Investment Portfolio Management

• Own and continuously improve portfolio-level financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment governance.

• Manage governance and visibility across significant CapEx and OpEx technology investment portfolios.

• Partner with Finance to ensure accurate forecasting, budget adherence, financial controls, and transparency of investment performance.

• Establish consistent business-case standards covering investment rationale, total cost of ownership, expected benefits, risk reduction, productivity impact, and measurable outcomes.

• Review actual spending against forecast and identify material variances, emerging pressures, or opportunities to redeploy funding.

• Connect financial investment to delivery performance and realized business outcomes.

• Provide recommendations to continue, accelerate, reprioritize, pause, resize, or stop investments.

6. Program & Delivery Governance

• Establish standardized program and project management methodologies appropriate for a diverse technology portfolio.

• Implement tiered governance based on program size, strategic importance, complexity, financial exposure, cybersecurity risk, and cross-functional dependencies.

• Establish stage-gate governance for strategic alignment, business case approval, funding authorization, architecture/design readiness, delivery readiness, deployment readiness, and benefits realization.

• Establish executive steering committees and decision forums for major transformation programs.

• Ensure consistent management of scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, and business outcomes.

• Establish clear escalation mechanisms so material issues reach the right leadership level early enough for intervention.

• Drive a culture of early risk identification and transparent escalation rather than late-stage reporting of missed commitments.

7. Enterprise Dependency & Risk Management

• Establish enterprise mechanisms for identifying and managing cross-program and cross-portfolio dependencies.

• Identify systemic risks that may not be visible when programs are managed independently.

• Create visibility into dependencies involving architecture, infrastructure, applications, data, cybersecurity, manufacturing environments, external partners, and business readiness.

• Facilitate resolution of portfolio-level conflicts involving resources, funding, sequencing, technology decisions, timing, and business ownership.

• Develop portfolio-level risk indicators and escalation thresholds that enable proactive executive intervention.

8. Portfolio Performance & Executive Reporting

• Create an executive portfolio dashboard covering investment and budget performance, strategic priorities, program health, major milestones, delivery confidence, risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, benefits realization, and decisions required.

• Move reporting beyond traditional Red/Amber/Green status toward forward-looking delivery confidence and decision-oriented reporting.

• Define enterprise KPIs and portfolio health metrics that measure predictability, investment effectiveness, time-to-value, delivery performance, and realized outcomes.

• Establish data quality standards and governance so executives can trust portfolio information used for decisions.

• Reduce manual reporting through improved tooling, automation, and standardized data.

9. Benefits & Value Realization

• Establish a framework requiring strategic programs to define measurable outcomes and benefits at investment approval.

• Partner with business sponsors to name benefit owners and measurable success criteria.

• Track committed benefits through execution and, where appropriate, beyond technical go-live.

• Provide visibility into whether investments produced expected revenue enablement, productivity, cost savings, cost avoidance, risk reduction, operational improvement, modernization, or employee/customer experience outcomes.

• Conduct post-investment reviews of major strategic programs to capture lessons learned and improve future investment decisions.

10. Executive Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a trusted portfolio advisor to the CIO, IT leadership team, Finance, and senior business executives.

• Facilitate executive portfolio reviews, investment councils, steering committees, AOP discussions, and strategic decision forums.

• Translate complex execution and portfolio information into clear executive narratives focused on business outcomes, financial exposure, strategic risk, trade-offs, and decisions required.

• Challenge assumptions constructively and surface difficult portfolio decisions when demand exceeds available funding or capacity.

• Build strong partnerships across business, technology, Finance, Procurement, Operations, cybersecurity, engineering, and external service providers.

• Influence outcomes across organizations where the EPMO may not have direct authority.

11. PMO Technology, Data & Automation

• Define the technology and data strategy supporting enterprise portfolio management.

• Drive automation of portfolio reporting, forecasting, risk identification, financial reconciliation, and executive dashboards.

• Evaluate and optimize enterprise portfolio management and analytics capabilities across platforms such as Planview, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Jira/Confluence, Microsoft Power BI, and related financial and workforce systems, based on the enterprise technology landscape.

• Explore appropriate use of AI and predictive analytics for risk identification, schedule forecasting, dependency analysis, scenario planning, and executive reporting.

• Establish consistent portfolio data definitions and integration across Finance, workforce, delivery, and technology systems.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• MBA or relevant Master's degree preferred.

• Relevant professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PfMP, SAFe, or comparable portfolio/program management credentials are desirable; demonstrated enterprise leadership and business judgment are more important than certification alone.

Professional Experience

• 15+ years of progressive technology, transformation, program management, portfolio management, or PMO leadership experience.

• 5+ years leading an enterprise PMO, portfolio management function, transformation office, or large-scale program organization.

• Demonstrated experience building, transforming, or significantly scaling a program and portfolio management capability within a large, complex global organization.

• Experience managing significant multi-year technology investment portfolios spanning both CapEx and OpEx.

• Demonstrated success governing multiple complex, interdependent enterprise transformation programs simultaneously.

• Strong experience with AOP, strategic planning, investment prioritization, financial management, resource/capacity planning, executive governance, and benefits realization.

• Experience operating across global teams, multiple business functions, time zones, and strategic partner ecosystems.

• Experience governing complex digital and AI transformations, with exposure to ERP, cloud/infrastructure, cybersecurity, Data & AI, workplace technology, enterprise applications, and manufacturing technology highly desirable.

• Experience within semiconductor, high-tech manufacturing, or a similarly complex global technology environment strongly preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.

• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.

• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) poster.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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