Full Job Description
IT Portfolio Manager
Key Responsibilities
• Directly working for the MD and should possess the ability to communicate and present at an executive level.
• Financial reporting.
• Financial analysis for IT.
• Rolling up all IT spend for a total cost of ownership and show backs.
• Managing relationships with key stakeholders to drive data collections and reporting.
• Understanding contract forecasting.
• Creating an IT Portfolio Plan, which outlines the structure and composition of the IT Portfolio, including the list of projects, programs, and other initiatives.
• Collaborating to develop, manage, and enforce IT portfolio/program/project methodologies and disciplines to ensure strategic alignment with technologies and business goals.
• Working together with EA on a governance framework to document portfolio management processes, standards, and governance practices, defining roles, responsibilities, decision-making procedures, and compliance measures.
• Conducting annual planning sessions with key stakeholders to identify top technology priorities for current and future fiscal years.
• Centralizing and overseeing the intake process of technology projects to confirm funding, resources, and risk requirements.
• Developing and maintaining a project risk prioritization matrix tool to assess projects.
• Driving the process with key stakeholders to prioritize and sequence projects based on their strategic importance, resource availability, risk exposure, and alignment with business objectives.
• Capacity planning for initial and ongoing identification of resource needs and scheduling will be used for making critical portfolio decisions.
• Identifying dependencies and critical paths.
• Conducting regular portfolio reviews with senior leadership to enable informed decisions about the direction of IT investments.
• Developing and maintaining a risk management plan to mitigate risks that may impact the successful delivery of portfolio projects and programs.
• Continuously reviewing the portfolio to identify opportunities for improvement or consolidation.
• Implementing innovative reporting metrics to provide visibility into portfolio performance for senior leadership and stakeholders across the IT organization.
• Implementing quality assurance processes and audits together with the compliance team to ensure that projects are delivered timely, meet the highest standards, and meet user expectations.
• Indirectly manages work from IT Project Managers, IT Senior Project Managers, and Business Analysts.
• Performs related duties as required.
• Tools to be used in this role include Tableau, Sievo, ServiceNow SPM, Asana, Excel, Smartsheet, PowerPoint, SAP, Ariba CM, and Jira.
Required Qualifications
• Skill 1 - you will be directly working for the MD and should possess the ability to communicate and present at an executive level
• Skill 2 - rolling up all IT spend for a total cost of ownership and show backs, managing relationships with key stakeholders to drive data collections and reporting
• Skill 3 - also includes conducting annual planning sessions with key stakeholders to identify top technology priorities for current and future
Preferred Qualifications
• Skill 1 - Capacity planning for initial and ongoing identification of resource needs and scheduling will be used for making critical portfolio decisions.
Domain Experience
• IT Portfolio Manager
Certifications
• NA