Job Title: Contractor - President/CEO's OfficeJob Location: Merrifield, VAExperience Level: 15 yrs.
Job Description:Both Program Management & Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) experience are required for consideration. Enterprise Portfolio & Value Manager sought to facilitate and strengthen lean portfolio management for strategic enterprise portfolios. Seeking a collaborative agile champion to implement and oversee a portfolio of initiatives, including lean governance, funding and portfolio operations while learning and navigating corporate culture. Experience in managing portfolios and agile enterprise transformation required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Understand and analyze portfolio needs to create and implement portfolio maturity plans
- Oversee framework to govern the intake, prioritization and decisioning of investments to maximize value flow
- Oversee the portfolio Kanban and ensure stop/pivot/persevere portfolio governance decisions are made to ensure prioritized value is delivered
- Engage in active Portfolio Management for budget, scope and execution
- Monitor Lean Budgeting guardrails to govern the funding of strategic work
- Ensure portfolio roadmaps for planned work are created and maintained
- Oversee portfolio reporting of metrics, objectives & key results, advocating for the inclusion of value metrics
- Work closely with executive stakeholders and provide key information to support decision making and align prioritization of projects with strategic objectives.
- Serve as an Agile Coach to identify gaps in existing lean portfolio management; advocate for and implement improvements
- Coordinate adjustments to the portfolio as necessary when strategic demands necessitate a change in delivery and/or scope of work
- Serve as primary point of contact to strategic goal owners and enterprise initiative owners for initiatives and related dependencies and risks
- Build and maintain relationships with lines of business, team members, management, key stakeholders and/or external contacts (e.g., vendors, etc.)
QUALIFICATIONS:- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Prior consulting experience
- Advanced knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe) and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
- Advanced knowledge of project management best practices, including change management, risk management, dependency management, executive reporting, and aggregation of project data
- Advanced skills to track and monitor Initiative, program and project progress, identify project and process gaps, recommend controls and communicate progress to business leaders
- Significant experience in managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals
- Extensive experience in working with all levels of executive leadership, management, stakeholders, vendors
- Advanced consultative, conflict resolution, negotiation and facilitation skills to gain consensus and ensure delivery of initiatives
- Significant experience in creating and delivering presentations to virtual and in person teams
- Advanced thought leadership, critical thinking, analytical, and problem solving skills
- Experience with launching value streams and enterprise level Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
