Job Details: Governance, Senior Manager, IT

Job Title Governance, Senior Manager, IT
Company SunPower Corporation
Location San Jose CA (US)
Date Posted 07/07/10

The Governance, Senior Manager, IT will be responsible for IT governance, vendor management office and IT Project Management Office (PMO) at SunPower. This position will report to the Director Applications Delivery.

This position will interface closely with the Director of IT Operations, Director of Applications Delivery, Chief Information Officer, and various IT and functional business managers/Directors. To succeed in this role, you will possess detail-oriented execution skills, overall business savvy, strong communication abilities and a focus on service excellence.

In addition, the Senior Manager, IT will be responsible for planning, budgeting, people management, career development, quality management, compliance and other typical team leadership responsibilities for their team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• IT Governance:
o Define the overall structure, company processes and IT and business role accountability for overall IT governance function.
o Overall responsibility for Stage Gate process used to govern IT projects.
o Ensure alignment of IT strategy with overall business strategy and goals
o Facilitate Enterprise Architecture team
o Facilitate cross functional Change Control Review Board forum
o Document IT policy and principles
o Coordinate Internal Audit and Sox requirements with IT teams
o Maintain Process Maps coordinating with global and sub process owners
o Own IT measurement and survey processes. Focus on continuous improvement and identify opportunities to provide IT related services more efficiently and effectively

• Vendor Management Office:
o Define process used to monitor performance of outsourced providers to ensure adequate and continuously improving service levels.
o Define key metrics in support of monitoring process.
o Define and monitor quality of key documents related to vendor relationships, such as master service contracts, and statements of work (SOW) for work being executed by third party providers
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• Project Management office:
o Define standard planning methodologies used to ensure consistent and repeatable project development performance
o Maintain top level IT plan (A3) used to ensure alignment of business and IT
o Define skills set and curriculums required for key project roles such as project managers and IT analysts
o Partner with senior IT and business management and peers to define application and infrastructure roadmaps for the IT strategic plan.

Necessary Skills
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Strong judgment and decision making abilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication / presentation abilities, including facilitation, negotiation, presentation and demonstration.
• Client-facing Skills: business networking, consulting and partnering, influence
• Excellent organizational skills. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Good people management skills, including recruiting, mentoring, and career development.
• Familiarity and successful working experience using key process excellence and quality principles such as Six Sigma, 8D, Process Enterprise. Familiarity and successful working experience with applicable industry standards such as PMP, CMM, ITIL, and ISO 9001

Related Experience & Educational Requirements
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or related field; MBA a plus.
• 10+ years experience in a combination of IT development, program management and line management preferably at a ‘Big 4’ Consulting firm.
• ERP experience, preferably Oracle ERP.
• Proven leadership and influencing abilities from core team up through executive levels.
• Strong stakeholder management, communications, and facilitation experience across the full lifecycle of complex products.
• Proven ability to hire, train and motivate a team.
• Deep expertise and successful working experience with IT Service Providers covering all phases of the systems development lifecycle. Experience in contract negotiations and documents review.
• Hands on experience with all aspects of the project lifecycle, including detailed deliverable development as well as team management at all levels.
• Project management experience, management of project managers preferred.

Please send resume to David.Sneed@sunpowercorp.com.

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