Hi there, we’re Article. 👋 Since 2013, we have been redefining the furniture industry one sofa at a time, it’s not easy — it requires solving challenging, meaningful problems.
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"}" data-trix-content-type="undefined" data-trix-id="4252" class="attachment attachment--content">Hi there, we’re Article. 👋 Since 2013, we have been redefining the furniture industry one sofa at a time, it’s not easy — it requires solving challenging, meaningful problems. This is where you come in, as a Director, PMO, you'll be responsible for building and leading the centralized Project Management Office (PMO function) to help internal customers deliver their objectives by providing both intra- and cross-functional planning and workflow support. We want someone to come in and elevate how PMO operates within the Article ecosystem.
*Please note that there will be required travel to Vietnam at least once a year.
Why We Need You:
The Director, PMO is the leader of the PMO function. You'll oversee the delivery of products and services to internal customers in the following 3 areas:
Company wide operating system methods, tools, governance, and compliance
Program and project delivery support and optimization, with particular attention to our Product Lifecycle (Assortment) program
Annual strategic planning program ownership and delivery
As the main steward of our business-within-a-business operating system, the Director, PMO leads the PMO team to simplify, standardize, apply, and continuously improve the system’s processes and tools, drawing on deep project and program management expertise and proven practices.
As the sole provider of cross-functional project and program management services at Article, your goal will be to make it easy for internal customers to plan, execute, monitor, and manage the successful delivery of their project and program objectives, not just tick a box on a project plan.
Our internal customers are asking for help in delivery with their goals while minimizing cost of administration overheads, to do so, you'll be responsible to help level up the current PMO team so they drive projects and not just coordinate. This includes our Assortment (Product Lifecycle) program (i.e. our Furniture products), that drivers our revenue, and is Article's most complex cross-functional program - and holds a high bar for its predictability and health.
You will directly sponsor the company’s annual Strategic Planning program, ensuring the program planning cadence so the company can meet its top-level goals. This requires identifying overlaps, duplications, resource constraints, ownership gaps, and downstream impacts before and during execution. In essence, acting as air traffic control at a portfolio level.
About the Project Management (PMO) team:
The team currently has 10 Particles (people of Article). 5 are based in Vancouver (1 Manager and 4 Project Managers) and 4 are based in Vietnam (1 Manager and 3 Project Managers). You will have 3 direct reports (2 managers and 1 Particle in Operational Excellence).
We are a hybrid team - you'll be in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).
This role reports to the VP, People & Culture, who brings strong Change Management expertise. To be successful, you will need to be THE subject matter expert on everything PMO. Your VP will be there to unblock anything and guide you on how to operate within Article, but you will own the function of PMO.
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