Vice President, Enterprise Project Management

About Us
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wabash Valley Power is a not-for-profit electric cooperative and wholesale provider of reliable, affordable electricity to our 21 electric distribution member cooperatives. These cooperatives in turn serve more than 280,000 homes, businesses, and farms in Indiana and Illinois.

As a not-for-profit co-op, we do things a bit differently—and that’s the point. Because we aren’t influenced by shareholders, we make our decisions with our members in mind. That means we value things like teamwork, and putting families first. It also means a business model that’s designed for stability and growth. It’s a Deliberately Different approach to the energy industry, and that’s great news for the people who count on us.

What You'll Get
We believe what benefits our employees benefits our company. That’s why we put employees first—your health, your family, and your development. These aren’t just slogans: We offer continuing education, flex time, health benefits, a 401(k) match and pension plan, and much more. Here are just a few of the things that make our company culture unique:

• No Sweat - We offer a wellness program that includes a payroll credit for medical insurance, an on-site fitness center for your convenience and extra vacation days for participating. We’ll even throw in a fitness device reimbursement to keep you on track!
• Flex Time - Our flexible schedule means you can work in your appointments or family events and maintain a comfortable work-life balance.
• Stay in School - We value employees who have a desire to learn, so we provide funds for continuing education. We also offer in-house training and ongoing development through our internal GROW program.
• Keep it Casual - When you work for us, you work in comfort. Blue jeans are the norm in our office and we make them look good!
• Work Hard, Play Hard - We reward our employees with generous vacation time, to the tune of up to five weeks off a year. Even our new employees receive credit for prior work experience.

The Vice President, Enterprise Project Management provides executive leadership for the cooperative’s enterprise project portfolio and is responsible for ensuring that major strategic initiatives and capital investments are effectively planned, prioritized, governed, and executed. The position leads the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) and partners across the organization to ensure projects are aligned with strategic objectives and delivered safely, efficiently, and within approved scope, schedule, and budget.

The Vice President serves as an enterprise integrator, working across Engineering, Operations, Power Supply, Finance, Technology, and other functions to coordinate resources, manage interdependencies, resolve barriers, and provide executive leadership with clear visibility into project performance and risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Portfolio Management: Lead the EPMO and establish consistent governance, prioritization, project controls, reporting, and accountability across the enterprise portfolio.
• Strategic Execution: Translate strategic priorities and Board direction into actionable programs, projects, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Capital Project Governance: Provide enterprise oversight of significant technology and infrastructure investments including scope, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, and change control.
• Portfolio Prioritization: Partner with executive leadership to evaluate competing investments, resource requirements, organizational capacity, project dependencies, and enterprise risk.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate complex initiatives spanning multiple business units and facilitate timely resolution of issues affecting project execution.
• Performance & Risk Management: Establish executive dashboards and portfolio-level KPIs; identify emerging cost, schedule, resource, regulatory, and execution risks and drive appropriate corrective actions.
• Organizational Capability: Develop project management standards, tools, talent, and disciplines throughout the organization and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Project Management, Construction Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience leading complex projects, programs, or capital portfolios, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional initiatives in the electric utility, energy, infrastructure, cooperative, or other regulated industry.
• Strong understanding of capital planning, project controls, budgeting, risk management, contract administration, and organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, Boards, technical professionals, business leaders, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, or comparable professional certification preferred.

Leadership Expectations

The successful candidate will be a strategic, collaborative, and results-oriented leader who combines strong project discipline with sound business judgment. The individual must be capable of operating at both the enterprise strategic level and the project execution level, creating transparency and accountability while enabling business leaders and project teams to successfully deliver the cooperative’s most important initiatives.

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly verbally and through email.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Accepting applications for this role through Monday, November 16.