To govern business portfolios, including developing and implementing framework, methodology, measurements for proposing, approving, and reviewing projects, programs, and services, and techniques in identifying, quantifying, and tracking the realization of expected benefits.
Responsibilities
- Work in program portfolio team focused on planning, managing and governing business portfolios including key initiatives
- Lead and facilitate cross functional planning that can build the view, and support planning discussions among the owners of the work, to include resources, dependencies and sequencing across portfolios
- Coordinate and synchronize portfolios via regular planning sessions to provide a common understanding of the current work streams, backlog and outcomes
- Monitor processes, tasks, and metrics associated with the business portfolios, and measure performance against the baseline scope, budget, time, and resources
- Develop best governing practices and principles to increase performance and lower operating costs to ensure optimal process efficiencies
- Develop and recommend project and portfolio management processes that drive the on time, in budget delivery of business critical initiatives
- Ensure transparency regarding the status of business project portfolios to enable fact-based decision making by leaders
- Analyze and assess the consistency of portfolio performance to ensure adherence to established policies, procedures and practices within service level agreements, documentation standards and methodologies meet established service level agreements
- Ensure consistent delivery against objectives by setting standards, providing governance, enforcing accountability, and setting the pace of transformation
- Develop executive level-reporting and metrics with a focus on visual depiction of complex information
- Partner with others within and outside the Portfolio Management Office to support and enable change management efforts
Qualifications and Soft Skill Requirements
- Significant progressively responsible experience in a Portfolio Management Office, Strategy Realization Office or the equivalent, for a large organization, preferably at a large financial services organization
- Advanced knowledge of project lifecycles and management methodologies (e.g., Agile, SDLC, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, etc.)
- Ability to work independently within a matrixed environment
- Advanced knowledge of Project Portfolio Management
- Advanced skill to influence, negotiate and persuade to reach agreeable exchange and positive outcomes
- Advanced skill building effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact
- Advanced skill exercising initiative and using good judgement to make sound decisions
- Advanced skill using innovative thinking to solve problems and facilitate the decision making process
- Advanced skill producing desired results and achieving goals and objectives
- Advanced skill identifying and analyzing business requirements and recommending solutions
- Advanced skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely
- Advanced critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Advanced skill resolving conflicting requests and meeting changing requirements
- Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
- Expert word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Desired - Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
Desired Skills
- Expert skill in the use of Microsoft Office Products (e.g., Excel)
- Expert skill in the use of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
- Experience in working with business intelligence tools (e.g., Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau, etc.)
Project/Program Manager
Agile and Waterfall
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
SAFe
Finance
