Vice President | Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management

Job Description CBIZ has an immediate full-time opportunity for a Vice President, Enterprise Portfolio & Program Management (EPMO) to establish and lead a best-in-class enterprise portfolio management function that enables strategy execution, transformation, and measurable business outcomes across the organization. This role reports directly to the Chief Strategy Officer and National Leader of Technology, positioning the EPMO as a critical enabler of enterprise transformation across the organization.The VP will lead a portfolio of complex programs and projects, acting as a strategic partner to business, technology, and operations, ensuring alignment between enterprise strategy, investment, and execution while driving disciplined delivery, transparency, and measurable business outcomes across the portfolio.This is a highly visible enterprise leadership role requiring a strong transformation mindset, executive presence, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders while building a scalable operating model for sustained growth and innovation.Essential Functions And Primary DutiesThe ideal candidate is an experienced EPMO leader who has successfully evolved PMOs into enterprise capabilities that drive strategic execution. This individual brings deep expertise in aligning business priorities, technology roadmaps, and transformation initiatives, while informing and operationalizing enterprise OKRs, KPIs, and performance management frameworks.They will serve as a key partner to executive leadership, ensuring that strategic objectives are translated into actionable, sequenced initiatives with clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and ongoing governance.Lead Enterprise Transformation Enablement: Establish and lead the Enterprise PMO as a central function that connects strategy, transformation, and execution across business units and technology, enabling the firm to deliver on its strategic objectives.Drive Strategy Alignment & OKR Integration: Partner with executive leadership to translate corporate strategy into enterprise portfolio priorities, OKRs, and KPIs, ensuring all initiatives are aligned to measurable outcomes and business value.Own Enterprise Portfolio Governance: Design and operate a cross-functional governance model that enables prioritization, funding decisions, tradeoff management, and performance tracking across business and technology investments.Integrate Business Units, Technology, and Transformation Efforts: Act as the connective layer across business units, IT, and corporate functions, ensuring alignment of roadmaps, dependencies, and resource allocation across the enterprise.Deliver Enterprise Visibility & Performance Management: Establish and maintain executive-level dashboards and scorecards covering portfolio health, delivery predictability, financial performance, capacity, risk, and benefits realization—informing leadership decisions and strategic adjustments.Optimize Capacity & Throughput Across the Enterprise: Lead enterprise intake, prioritization, and resource capacity planning to ensure optimal allocation of resources, reduction of work-in-progress, and improved delivery outcomes.Lead and Evolve the EPMO Organization: Build and develop a high-performing EPMO team, establishing standardized methodologies, tools, and governance practices while driving accountability for consistent execution and results.Ensure Value Realization & Business Impact: Implement frameworks and processes to track and measure benefits realization, ensuring initiatives deliver intended outcomes and contribute to enterprise performance targets.Provide Oversight on Strategic Initiatives: Serve as an escalation point and provide hands-on leadership for high-impact, cross-functional transformation initiatives to ensure successful delivery and adoption.Build and Scale the Team: Lead and grow a high-performing EPMO team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.Preferred Qualifications12+ years of progressive experience in portfolio, program, and project management across business and technology domains, driving enterprise transformation initiatives.7+ years of experience leading an Enterprise PMO (EPMO) or equivalent, driving enterprise portfolio strategy, prioritization, execution, and outcomes.Proven ability to partner with executive leadership to define and operationalize OKRs and KPIs, linking portfolio investments to measurable business value and performance outcomes.Deep expertise in enterprise portfolio governance, including intake/demand management, prioritization frameworks, stage gates, and executive decision forums.Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional enterprise initiatives across multiple business units.Strong experience driving operational maturity, process standardization, and organizational transformation.Strong financial acumen, including portfolio-level budgeting, forecasting, and investment decision support tied to value realization.Demonstrated success building enterprise reporting, dashboards, and performance scorecards that drive transparency and informed decision-making.Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder engagement skills; ability to influence C-level and senior leaders across business and technology.Experience leading organizational change, operating model maturity, and transformation programs.Professional services experience preferred.Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.PMP certification required; Agile experience required (CSM or equivalent preferred).Ability to travel as needed. Minimum QualificationsThe successful candidate will be credentialed in applicable areas of expertise (i.e. law, accounting, tax, product/services) with at least ten years of relevant experience in the field or industry.Must have strengths in leadership and management from a strategic perspective.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, collaborative with internal groups to reach workable solutions, able to anticipate problems, creatively assess alternatives and manage conflicts.About UsCBIZ, Inc. (NYSE: CBZ) is a leading professional services advisor to middle-market businesses nationwide. With industry knowledge and expertise in accounting, tax, advisory, benefits, insurance, and technology, CBIZ delivers actionable insights to help clients anticipate what is next and discover new ways to accelerate growth. CBIZ has more than 9,500 team members across 23 major markets coast to coast.CBIZ strives to be our team members' employer of choice by creating an environment where team members are appreciated, recognized for their contributions, and provided with opportunities to grow, both personally and professionally, throughout their careers.Together, CBIZ and CBIZ CPAs are ranked as one of the top providers of accounting services in the United States. CBIZ CPAs is an independent CPA firm that provides audit, review and attest services, while CBIZ provides business consulting, tax and financial services. In certain jurisdictions, CBIZ CPAs operates under its previous name, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.