P5P5 — Expert Professional
Expert/Principal Manager
Sets enterprise IT outsourcing strategy. Aligns sourcing initiatives with business roadmap.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Manages the largest or most critical outsourcing relationships
- Sets enterprise IT outsourcing strategy
- Aligns sourcing initiatives with business roadmap
- Leads change management efforts
- Influences cross-cultural teams
- Maintains executive presence
- Drives innovation in outsourcing practices
- Fosters long-term vendor partnerships
- Ensures strategic alignment with business goals
- Champions best practices in outsourcing
- Set IT outsourcing strategy
- Align sourcing with business roadmap
- Manage critical outsourcing relationships
- Lead change management
- Drive innovation in practices
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Enterprise strategy development
- Cross-cultural team leadership
- Executive communication
- Change management
- Innovation in outsourcing
- Strategic partnership building
- Best practice implementation
- Long-term planning
- Enterprise IT strategy
- Cross-cultural management
- Executive leadership
- Change management principles
- Innovative outsourcing practices
- Strategic partnership models
- Business roadmap alignment
- Best practices in IT outsourcing
- Visionary planning
- Cross-cultural influence
- Executive presence
- Change Leadership
- Strategic alignment
- Innovation
- Partnership development
- Best practice champion
What good looks like
- 8–12+ years including leadership of multi-national IT outsourcing initiatives
- PMP or PgMP preferred
- Master's degree in IT or related field
- Strong executive presence
- Proven success in strategic IT management
Common titles
Expert/Principal Manager
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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