Senior Portfolio Manager

Highmark

• $110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Business, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 5+ years of project delivery experience
  • 5+ years of experience managing client relationships
  • Proficiency in project management methodology
  • Strong communication and problem resolution skills
  • Experience working in a matrixed organization

Responsibilities

  • Manage project deliverables and present status reports to stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain project plans and budget documents
  • Ensure timely updates to project artifacts and issue tracking
  • Monitor scope adherence and manage change control processes
  • Identify project challenges and escalate them appropriately
  • Oversee release management and document lessons learned

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days onsite)
  • Ongoing professional training and development
  • Opportunities to build relationships across various teams
  • Exposure to senior leadership and strategy development
Full Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Portfolio Manager owns the strategic planning, governance, and performance of an assigned portfolio, driving work from concept through value realization. This role partners with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, oversee initiative execution, manage portfolio risks and dependencies, and measure outcomes. The Senior Portfolio Manager serves as the central point of coordination and accountability for portfolio strategy, ensuring organizational resources are aligned to deliver sustainable business value and achieve enterprise objective

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage deliverables based on delivery excellence processes. Present project status to stakeholders in both written and verbal form. Maintain project risk / issue lists and take action to mitigate risks and address issues. Ensure that all stakeholders have full and timely communication of project activities. Manage resource utilization on the project through matrixed delivery across the product teams.
  • Develop artifacts related to the delivery excellence processes and ensuring that those artifacts are properly maintained and shared with project stakeholders. Develop project schedule and work breakdown to ensure complete delivery of the project requirements. Create both internal and external budget documents and prepare to manage profitability of overall project. Develop resource plans and coordinate with development teams to ensure proper resource alignment.
  • Ensure that all project artifacts are updated on expected schedules. Maintain project time tracking including estimate to complete as well as ensuring that all hours logged to a project are accurate. Closely monitor scope adherence to ensure that all documented requirements are delivered as requested. Manage scope through the change control management processes to ensure that all work is properly documented.
  • Identify any changes to delivery and actively escalate those challenges to manager or director as appropriate. Manage tasks across the matrixed organization to own all aspects of the delivery. Build a productive trusting relationship with the stakeholders both internally and externally through communications and accomplishments.
  • Accept the projects from the solution process and developing an understanding of the new work. This includes reviewing domains impacted and understanding the end to end process for delivery of the project. Identification of stakeholders and ensuring the proper communication is developed for all stakeholders.
  • Adhere to all release management stage gates and timelines. Ensure that project delivery outputs are properly included in releases including monitoring release weekend activities and reporting progress during the release activities. Post closing conduct lessons learned and document process improvements.
  • Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare, Business, Information Technology or related field

Substitutions

  • None

Preferred

  • None

EXPERIENCE

Required

  • 5 years with Project delivery
  • 5 years with Client Relationships

Substitutions

  • None

Preferred

  • None

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

  • None

Preferred

  • Project Management Professional (PMI)

SKILLS

  • Project Management 
  • Financial Planning and Management 
  • Strong Communication skills 
  • Problem Management and Resolution 
  • Working in a Matrixed Organization 
  • Client expectations management 

Language (Other than English):

None

Travel Requirement:

25% - 50%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite - T, W, Th.

Teaches / trains others regularly

Rarely

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Occasionally

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

Physical work site required 

Yes

Lifting: up to 10 pounds

Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds

Rarely

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds

Never

Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

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