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Job Description
Fortive is seeking an IT Program Coordinator to lead cross-functional technology programs while strengthening the operating discipline of the CIO organization. This role owns integrated program planning and execution, portfolio governance, leadership operating rhythms, and the operational processes that enable clear decisions, financial visibility, accountability, and sustained follow-through. Beyond program delivery, the role serves as a key operating partner to the CIO and leadership team—connecting strategic priorities to plans, governance, resources, communications, and measurable outcomes across the department.
Key Responsibilities IT Program Delivery & Portfolio Governance
- Lead planning and execution across a portfolio of technology, AI, security, governance, and organizational programs, translating strategic priorities into clear scope, outcomes, workplans, and accountabilities.
- Build and maintain integrated program plans, department milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and status reporting across multiple workstreams.
- Partner with workstream owners to monitor delivery, manage risks and issues, resolve barriers, and drive timely decisions or escalation.
- Establish consistent portfolio governance and prepare concise views that give leaders clear visibility into priorities, delivery health, capacity, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
Leadership Operating Rhythm & Governance
- Establish and lead the CIO organization’s operating cadence, using leadership reviews, planning sessions, and governance forums to assess performance, resolve cross-functional issues, and accelerate decisions.
- Define the objectives, decision points, performance inputs, and stakeholder preparation required for governance forums, ensuring discussions are focused on outcomes and execution.
- Prioritize and sequence key governance forums and stakeholder engagements to align leadership attention with critical program milestones, risks, and decisions.
- Maintain accountability for decisions and commitments across the portfolio, identifying delivery gaps, removing barriers with accountable leaders, and escalating material risks when needed.
Executive Communications & Reporting
- Develop executive-level portfolio reporting, dashboards, and decision materials that clarify progress, performance, risks, resource needs, and recommended actions.
- Integrate inputs from multiple teams into a cohesive view of portfolio health, business impact, trade-offs, and decisions required.
- Establish reporting standards and quality controls that improve data reliability, comparability, and timely intervention across programs.
CIO Operations, Financial Planning & Continuous Improvement
- Lead integrated annual and quarterly planning across the CIO organization, translating strategic priorities into sequenced initiatives, milestones, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Strengthen department workflows, decision rights, handoffs, documentation, and information flow to increase speed, consistency, and accountability.
- Design and manage the operating mechanisms that connect program priorities, budgets, procurement, vendor performance, and resource allocation in partnership with Finance and Procurement.
- Partner with the Director of Finance to integrate budgets, forecasts, variances, commitments, and spend trends into program planning and resource decisions.
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights, trade-offs, and materials for budget reviews, resource decisions, and operating discussions, while Finance retains ownership of controls and approvals.
- Use Microsoft 365, Power Platform, project-management tools, and AI capabilities to automate tracking, improve reporting, standardize recurring processes, and increase department productivity.
Stakeholder & Event Management
- Drive alignment and execution across initiative sponsors, workstream leaders, Finance, HR, Procurement, Communications, and external partners, clarifying interdependencies, decision rights, and accountabilities.
- Lead the design and delivery of leadership offsites, planning sessions, town halls, CIO meetings and initiative workshops to advance program outcomes, resolve issues, and convert decisions into executable next steps.
- Apply sound judgment and appropriate governance when managing sensitive program, financial, organizational, and stakeholder information.
What Success Looks Like
- Technology programs deliver against clear scope, milestones, outcomes, and governance expectations.
- Leadership has clear, timely visibility into priorities, progress, capacity, financial performance, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
- Commitments are documented, assigned, and consistently driven to completion across the CIO organization.
- Leadership forums are decision-oriented, well prepared, and followed by disciplined execution.
- Financial and operational reviews provide reliable insight and enable informed resource trade-offs.
- Department processes become simpler, more consistent, measurable, and increasingly automated.
Candidate Profile Required Experience and Capabilities
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in IT program management, technology portfolio management, business operations, transformation, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple cross-functional initiatives with competing priorities, dependencies, and senior stakeholders.
- Strong command of project planning, status reporting, risk and issue management, meeting governance, and action tracking.
- Exceptional written communication and presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize complex material for executives.
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel, with strong working knowledge of Teams, SharePoint, Planner, and related Microsoft 365 tools.
- High degree of initiative, judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and follow-through.
- Ability to influence progress through relationships, clarity, and persistence without formal authority.
- Demonstrated ability to build executive presentations, analyze operational and financial data in Excel, and translate complex information into actionable insights.
- Ability to implement practical AI, automation, and workflow capabilities that improve operating efficiency, reporting quality, and team productivity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting departmental budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, procurement, or cost-management processes in partnership with Finance.
- Experience in technology, cybersecurity, governance, compliance, or a complex global corporate environment.
- Experience supporting portfolio governance, annual planning, transformation programs, or organizational change.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Power BI, or similar planning and reporting tools.
- Experience preparing materials for senior leadership, executive committees, or boards.
- Project management or change management certification is a plus.
Leadership Characteristics
Execution focused. Highly organized. Clear communicator. Proactive. Discreet. Collaborative. Comfortable with ambiguity. Persistent about follow-through. Committed to continuous improvement.
About Us
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].
