Head of Product Model Center of Excellence (PMCoE)

Description

• Embed Agile Product Thinking: Promote iterative delivery, customer feedback loops, and outcome-driven planning across product teams.
• Empower High-Performing Teams: Build and lead a growth-minded team that works across all of IT to deliver value, embrace feedback, and continuously improve.
• Align Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Partner with Business, Finance, Technology and other leaders to ensure alignment, secure buy-in, and sustain momentum.
• Partner for Leadership Enablement: Collaborate with senior leaders to embed product mindsets and empower them to lead in a product-centric environment.
• Standardize Practices for Scale: Co-create adaptive standards and feedback loops that foster learning, consistency, and enterprise-wide alignment.
• Enable Data-Driven Decision Making: Use insights to assess product performance, customer impact, and transformation progress.
• Champion a Product-Centric Vision: Define and evangelize a compelling product transformation strategy aligned with enterprise goals and customer outcomes.
• Shape the Product Enablement Ecosystem: Lead the selection, integration, and continuous improvement of tools that empower product teams throughout the lifecycle - from strategy and discovery to delivery and outcome measurement.
• Measure and Communicate Impact: Define success metrics, track value delivery, and transparently communicate progress and learnings.
• Drive Strategic Roadmaps: Co-create and iterate on transformation roadmaps with prioritized initiatives, clear outcomes, and measurable impact.
• Build Product Management Excellence: Develop and scale training programs, coaching structures, and communities of practice for product owners, product managers and cross-functional teams.
• Influence Across the Enterprise: Develop strong partnerships with executives and stakeholders to foster commitment and accelerate adoption.
• Enable Product Governance: Design and evolve a scalable product taxonomy and governance model that promotes clarity, ownership, and alignment.

Requirements

• Model Product Leadership: Demonstrate strategic stewardship of product practices, tools, and governance.
• Experience with design thinking, human centered design, hypothesis testing, value stream mapping, customer journey mapping, product discovery, experimentation, etc.
• Experience building product management capabilities, training programs, and Centers of Excellence
• Excellent relationship-building, influencing, communication, and organizational skills
• Lead with Curiosity and Intentionality: Approach transformation with a learning mindset - seeking input, testing assumptions, and iterating toward scalable, value-driven solutions.
• Inspirational leader who motivates and empowers teams
• High emotional intelligence and empathy to build trust and influence without authority
• Analytical mindset with experience in productivity and maturity assessments
• Skilled facilitator of change who takes a collaborative and inclusive approach
• Proven success leading large-scale product model transformations in complex, matrixed organizations
• Deep understanding of Agile frameworks, product management, and customer feedback loops
• Change management acumen to guide the organization through transformation
• Systems thinker with an enterprise agility mindset
• Industry experience in Industrials, Manufacturing, or related sectors
• Experience with business case development, product funding models, and financial planning
• 5+ years of leadership experience in product management, Agile transformation, or enterprise strategy roles

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance