Senior Manager

ABOUT US

PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow.  

PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™. With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. 

At PHINIA, we Provide fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket products and solutions of the highest quality — developed and manufactured responsibly — that are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, industrial machinery, and other applications. In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards. 

Our Culture 

PHINIA promotes and cultivates an inclusive culture and diverse perspectives, strives to maintain its reputation for excellence, thrives on the power of collaboration, and fosters the development of our talented employees. We believe in making a positive impact through our business and actions, and we take our collective responsibility seriously. 

Career Opportunities 

We believe in building a brighter tomorrow for our employees as well as our customers and encourage you to learn about our long history, strong culture, new technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Join us on this shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow.

JOB PURPOSE

As a key member of the extended IT staff within PHINIA’s Office of the CIO and reporting to the Director of IT Transformation, this Senior Manager owns the operating mechanisms that ensure IT strategy governs how money, capacity, and leadership attention are allocated and how value is realized across the IT organization. This role also synthesizes IT strategy into a coherent executive narrative, consolidated roadmaps, and planning frameworks to support CIO- and executive-level decision making. This role stabilizes execution, strengthens governance across PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, and reduces CIO load by converting strategic priorities into enforceable constraints, coherent investment decisions, and measurable outcomes. This leader also provides integration governance for acquisition due diligence and IT integration to ensure consistency of prioritization, funding, and value realization during M&A activity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the operating mechanisms that translate IT strategy into investment, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery decisions across the IT organization.
• Ensure funded initiatives and active work are aligned to declared strategic priorities and defined value outcomes, and surface misalignment for leadership action.
• Establish and enforce constraints on funding, capacity, and sequencing to prevent strategic dilution and delivery thrash.
• Implement value realization discipline, including upfront value hypotheses, in-flight inspection, and post-delivery review for material IT initiatives.
• Maintain a CIO-level view of initiative coherence, overload, drift, and value erosion across the IT initiative landscape.
• Serve as the CIO’s control plane for execution governance, ensuring leadership attention is applied to systemic issues rather than recurring operational noise.
• Own the governance model for PMO, VMO, and IT Financial Management, ensuring these functions operate as a coherent system rather than parallel reporting lanes.
• Hold PMO, VMO, and IT Finance leaders accountable for producing decision-quality inputs that support prioritization and tradeoff decisions, not just reporting.
• Integrate financial, delivery, and vendor performance data to improve prioritization quality and investment tradeoff decisions.
• Ensure organizational change impact and adoption requirements are explicitly accounted for in initiative approval, funding, sequencing, and value realization governance.
• Lead IT integration governance for acquisitions, ensuring integration priorities, funding, sequencing, and execution risks are explicitly managed.
• Ensure acquisition integration work adheres to the same strategy alignment, constraint discipline, and value realization standards as the rest of the IT initiative landscape.
• Identify systemic delivery, vendor, and prioritization failure patterns and drive changes to operating rules, governance, or escalation paths to prevent recurrence.
• Define, design, and execute additional operating model and governance improvements as directed by the Director, IT Transformation and the CIO.
• Synthesize tower-level strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps into a coherent enterprise IT strategy narrative and consolidated multi-horizon roadmap for executive consumption.
• Own the IT strategy planning cadence, including preparation of CIO and IT leadership materials for executive forums, planning cycles, and strategy reviews.
• Develop executive-grade strategy artifacts (decks, narratives, roadmaps) that clearly articulate tradeoffs, sequencing, investment themes, and expected value.
• Frame strategic options and scenarios for leadership by modeling capacity, funding, risk, and value implications of competing priorities.

What we're looking for

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in enterprise IT leadership, transformation, operating model, execution governance, or management consulting roles with direct exposure to enterprise IT strategy and planning.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating governance mechanisms that improved execution stability and reduced leadership escalation load.
• Experience integrating financial management, delivery governance, and vendor management into a coherent decision-support system.
• Track record of enforcing prioritization discipline and making tradeoffs explicit in constrained environments.
• Experience operationalizing strategy through funding, gating, sequencing, and value realization mechanisms.
• Strong financial and investment acumen, with the ability to frame tradeoffs using budget, capacity, and delivery risk data.
• Ability to operate at the CIO agenda level with credibility and independence.
• Strong systems thinking capability, with experience changing operating rules to improve execution outcomes.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across IT towers, finance, and business stakeholders to drive alignment without relying on authority alone.
• Clear executive communication skills, including the ability to surface uncomfortable truths with evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to create executive-level strategy narratives, planning materials, and consolidated roadmaps.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.

WHAT WE OFFER

We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization. Our compensation programs are informed by market data and business needs, and we are committed to providing equitable and competitive compensation. We are committed to providing our team with quality and competitive benefit programs, including health and well-being resources, family-centric policies, and an agile workplace program, where not precluded by collective bargaining agreements or national statutory plans. Plans are benchmarked for competitiveness and value. 

We provide formal development opportunities at all levels and stages of employee careers. These opportunities are delivered in a variety of formats to make our portfolio of solutions agile, sustainable, and scalable to support our employees in developing the skills needed to succeed. 

WHAT WE BELIEVE

• Product Leadership - Innovation that brings value to our customers 

• Humility - Seeking out diverse perspectives and working collaboratively 

• Inclusivity - Recognizing our differences makes us stronger; we are bold and intentional 

• Net-Zero - Committed to energy efficiency, waste reduction and beneficial reuse 

• Integrity - Taking responsibility for our decisions and doing what is right 

• Accountability - Taking ownership of our actions and driving results

SAFETY

You will consistently hear us say Safety First! We are committed to continually improving our strong safety performance supporting the health and wellness of our employees!  

We also believe employee health and safety is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage safety learning and collaboration to help employees understand and follow applicable safety policies, standards, and procedures and identify opportunities to minimize or eliminate risk. Work is expected to be conducted in a manner that stresses the importance of preventing incidents and illnesses, including attending all required safety meetings and trainings. It is expected that all incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are immediately reported to the direct manager, Human Resources, or Safety Representative.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

PHINIA is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

VISA SPONSORSHIP

PHINIA does provide sponsorship for employment visa status based on business need. However, for this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis, in the country where the position is currently based.

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