At National Vision we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible. National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,200 stores. We operate four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Optical inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

We are hiring for a Director, Enterprise Strategic Initiative Management to join our growing team!

Job Summary

The Director, Enterprise Strategic Initiative Management, will provide oversight, governance, and tracking of all enterprise initiatives. This individual will be responsible for tracking and measurement of all initiatives and will have ownership to ensure accurate reporting to Sr. Leadership and the Board of Directors. This role is critical in ensuring that these large-scale initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget while meeting or exceeding business objectives, ensuring that the organization meets its annual financial targets. Must have a strategic mindset, excellent leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with a deep experience in managing large-scale initiatives across various business functions.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• Program Leadership: Leads and oversees the successful execution of major cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with the company’s​ strategic goals. Provides appropriate degree of overarching corporate program management.​
• Platform: Establishes standardized governance, tools, templates and technology to utilize across all organizational initiatives.
• Strategic Planning: Oversees and ensures the development of detailed project plans, including scope, timeline, budget, resource allocation, risk management, and communication strategies​.
• Leadership Influence: Demonstrates leadership influence to align team efforts​.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborates with senior leadership, business unit managers, and other stakeholders to align project objectives with business needs and ensure active participation and support​.
• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to project success, implementing contingency plans as needed to address potential​ challenges​.
• Communication: Maintains regular communication with all stakeholders, providing transparent updates on project status, risks, and issues​.
• Budget Management: Monitors and controls project budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources and identifying cost-saving opportunities where​ possible​.
• Change Management: Leads and manages change within projects, including developing and implementing change management strategies to ensure smooth transitions and adoption of new processes or systems​.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifies and implements best practices for program management, continually seeking opportunities to improve processes,​ challenges​.
• Ability to help with adoption of enterprise-wide project management processes and tools.

Work Experience

• 9+ years of experience in program or project management. ((Required))
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing large, cross- functional projects. ((Required))

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent experience. Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field. (Required)
• Master's Degree (Preferred)

Licenses, Certifications, Professional Affiliations

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI Project Management Professional ((Preferred))
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) Scrum Master ((Preferred))

Additional Skills

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget (Required)
• Strong leadership and people management skills (Required)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and manage stakeholders at all levels (Required)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities (Required)
• Experience with project management tools such as MS Projects, ServiceNow PPM, Asana, Jira, or similar (Required)
• Experience breaking down project into work breakdown structure (Required)
• Experience with visual diagram tools like Visio, Lucidchart, Creately, Mermaid (Required)
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Hybrid (Waterfall/Agile), Agile, Lean, or other project management methodologies (Required)
• Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving (Preferred)
• Experience establishing program/project level governance programs (Required)
• Proven ability to work with IT Program and Project Managers on large scale projects (Required)
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail (Preferred)
• Adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and able to managed multiple projects and initiatives (Preferred)

Taking Care of our People!
We understand the importance of financial health and security, and because of that, we provide competitive compensation to all Associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance, 401k retirement savings with company match, flex spending account, paid personal time off, paid company holidays, parental leave, employee eyewear discount and much, much more. At National Vision, we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs, access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within.

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We are an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.