Description:
This role is responsible for managing and delivering the annual investment portfolio for IT. They will also be responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects and programs working with the solution delivery/engineering teams. They lead a team of internal and external Project/Program managers and scrum masters to provide project delivery and execution by leveraging the processes, technology, tooling, and governance needed to achieve quality deliveries and attain business value.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Effectively plan, organize, and direct the completion of large, complex portfolio of projects while managing risks and issues to minimize scope, budget, and schedule impacts
- Act as single point of contact for managing a portfolio of projects working with the solution delivery Vice Presidents: building synergies between unrelated/related projects or programs, aligning strategic business objectives, increasing business value through people management, change control, risk management, and resource management
- Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down progress, escalate and mitigate risks/issues to multiple levels of management, including executive leadership teams across the organization
- Partner with solution delivery/engineering teams to drive program planning and delivery for both waterfall and agile projects
- Ensure compliance to project delivery methods, tools, framework, and IT controls.
- Partner with the IT Budget Management team to actively manage and deliver the financial commitments for an investment portfolio of $40-$60M. Partner with finance, project teams, and value stream owners to ensure all financial cadences (e.g., quarterly budgeting cycles, month-end closings, etc...) are supported by and aligned to portfolio financials
- Partner with the IT Release Management function to identify interdependencies and risks across the IT project portfolio.
- Create and maintain portfolio resource plans (in coordination with resource managers) that account for all resource capacity and utilization across the IT function while informing internal capitalization projections
- Manage supplier performance to ensure that contractual agreements are met
- Key partner for change management to support building an organizational readiness and change management plans to successfully execute new initiatives
- Monitor portfolio health through OKRs and portfolio metrics and financial status against relevant constraints, including strategic investment guidance, portfolio budgets vendor contracts, and operating budgets.
- Apply concepts of Lean Portfolio Management, driving a focus on driving the delivery of value to customers through the creation of products and solutions
- PMO Maturity, Process & Tools:
- Execute upon and contribute to process improvements and best practices across PMO to support delivery excellence
- Actively drive the transformation of waterfall projects to agile
- Support the agile/scrum teams to effectively follow agile methodology
- Lead and inspire IT teams in project & program management to develop and establish a high performing, service driven culture committed to failing fast, leaning out waste, and delivering business value
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- 10+ years practical experience at varying levels of project/program management
- Project management certification a plus, but not required. Emphasis is on demonstrated use of PMP, Scrum, Agile, etc.
- Working knowledge of agile methodology and agile tools (Jira)
- Thorough understanding of enterprise software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies
- Bring a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day activities and when helping others make strategic trade-offs
- Self-starter with the ability to lead teams through ambiguity to solve problems and drive results
- Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration; able to work well in a cross-functional environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientated
- Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike
- Financial Acumen
- Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- Understands the meaning and implications of key financial indicators
- Uses financial analysis to generate, evaluate, and act on strategic options and opportunities
- Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications (verbal and written) that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives