IT Program Coordinator

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.