The Program Director – TO is a key position within Corporate Transformation Office, responsible to drive change and deliver value for realizing Ingredion’s strategic goals. This role will be primarily responsible to ensure appropriate planning, management, and delivery of multiple Large Global Cross-Functional, Cross-Regional and Highly Complex Transformation projects is accomplished. Other responsibilities include establishing and driving Governance over large programs, establishing structure and framework over large programs, ensuring projects adhere to framework and methodologies.

• To operate as an effective change manager by ensuring ongoing engagement with stakeholders and impacted staff in a supportive and tactful manner.
• To act as a champion of the initiative, utilizing skills such as persuasion and negotiation to engage others and help to change perspectives/ views.
• To lead the development of robust implementation plans and oversee their delivery.
• To direct the PMO (Design) on the development of suitable, detailed business case of the project.
• To provide input and challenge during the development of detailed solutions, to help ensure that implementation will go smoothly.
• To provide advice on current and anticipated project issues and risks and to provide mitigations and solutions to resolve these.
• To lead the PMO through the provision of timely project reports, the raising of risks and issues and assistance with the investigation of potential solutions/ models of working.
• To be a self-starter, acting on and own your initiative to drive forward the delivery of the shared services but balancing this against the need to take people with you on a journey.
• To identify additional income generating or cost saving opportunities during transition or delivery, ensuring that they are documented, monitored, and realized.
• To have a lead role in the transition of activities within the agreed program framework and governance, ensuring delivery on time, within budget and realizing the identified benefits
• Partner with Ingredion’s 3rd Party Consultants on the development of our Target Operating Models, Knowledge Transfer, Tollgates and Project Management and Change Management.
• To lead the implementation of project solutions and help realize business cases, which will include complicated and sensitive information and may involve difficult recommendations or decisions.

Qualified candidate will have:

• Certified in PMP or other similar standard practices preferred.
• Proven experience with different project management methodologies and frameworks, including Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Design-Thinking, etc.
• Minimum 8-12 years of proven project management experience with large global projects with varying degrees of complexities
• Significant relevant experience working with virtual and/or matrix teams and ability to effectively communicate/collaborate in this environment.
• Experience in overseeing large direct and indirect teams in multiple locations.
• Experience working in a cross-cultural team and significant experience working with senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills required.
• Computer and Project Skills with proficiency level (i.e Microsoft Office, Project Management applications, Lean Six Sigma concepts)
• Hands-on skills to develop elaborate and creative project plans using tools such as MS Project or similar.
• Proven PMO experience of developing and managing project management frameworks, methodologies, and standards such as templates, and documents.
• A ‘completer-finisher’ taking accountability for ideas from inception to delivery, in an environment that requires robust metrics to confirm success.
• Experience of designing remediation plans to address productivity and efficiency issues, and track record of following through to ensure closure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of Partners, senior managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements.
• Experience of the whole project life cycle, able to operate in the initial conceptual design stage, in the depths of system testing, and at each stage in between.
• Experience planning, coordinating multiple projects simultaneously.
• Understand internal controls and business risk management.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or similar fields required; MBA preferred.

Required behaviors and skills:

• Strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills required.
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills. Must be able to convey information to all levels of the organization in a clear, focused, and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Dedicated team player with innovative mind-set to develop and implement internal process improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines.
• Embraces changes and is open to new ideas and approaches.
• Ability to travel 25-30% domestic and international.
• Ability to think strategically and translate strategy into tangible business plans and actions.
• Proactively build a good understanding of the customer to ensure own work is responsive to customer needs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage network/matrix organizations to achieve business objectives.
• Ability to lead, inspire and communicate with confidence to senior levels of management.