Sr Manager, IT PMO and Delivery Enablement

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the IT Project Management Office, ensuring projects and programs are aligned to enterprise priorities, executed with discipline, and deliver measurable business value.
• Develop and mature delivery frameworks, tools, and standards to support agile, hybrid, and product-based execution models.
• Drive execution cadence and visibility through consistent portfolio health tracking, milestone management, and value-based KPIs.
• Enable collaboration across product owners, platform leads, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure coordinated delivery and integrated planning.
• Support platform/application teams by aligning project execution with platform lifecycles, roadmaps, and business readiness needs.
• Establish lightweight, effective governance and data-driven processes that improve transparency, prioritization, and decision-making.
• Facilitate executive-level visibility into delivery progress, risks, and value realization, enabling timely course corrections and resource alignment.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement, coaching project managers and delivery teams to adopt modern practices.
• Serve as a change champion supporting our One Lubrizol delivery mindset – standardized platforms, scalable processes, and high agility across regions.
• Mentor, develop, and lead a high-performing team of project managers, delivery professionals, aligned with our culture of innovation and performance.
• Engage with vendor partners to align external resources to internal delivery cadences and platform expectations.
• Facilitate open, transparent communication among project participants to support issue resolution and drive outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
• 8-10+ years of experience in IT project/program management, with exposure to platform or application delivery.
• Proven leadership of PMO or delivery functions in a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Experience with agile and hybrid project methodologies and tools (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, MS Project, Azure DevOps, JIRA, ServiceNow).
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, sequence, and deliver complex initiatives through cross-functional alignment.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting platform or application lifecycle delivery, with understanding of enterprise IT platforms and digital systems.
• Experience in vendor management and strategic partnership.
• Strong influencing skill and ability to lead through collaboration in matrixed, global environments.

Preferred Certifications and Skills

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile certifications (SAFe, Scrum Master, etc.), or equivalent.
• Knowledge of IT governance and compliance frameworks.

Work Environment & Additional Information

• This is a hybrid role.
• This role may require occasional travel for team management or vendor engagement.
• Must be able to work flexibly across time zones to coordinate a global team.
• Reports to the IT Sr Director or equivalent executive leader.
• Expected to be a change advocate and champion of continuous improvement.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.