Director Strategic Portfolio Planning

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A Brief Overview
The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategic direction of our organization. This leadership position requires a visionary thinker who can identify, plan, and oversee key initiatives that drive growth, innovation, and long-term success. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to drive strategic priorities and ensure alignment with the company's mission and goals. This role is responsible for managing the Portfolio Relationship Managers (PRM) who manage the domain level portfolio of both ideas and project. This role is charged with brainstorming both short-term and long-term milestones and goals for strategic initiatives. This role ensures the organization's initiatives are in line with its visions whether it's a one-time project or the cultivation of partnerships. Responsibilities include proposals, reporting, budgeting, or program development directly or through the PRMs. This role oversees a team of individuals. This position requires strong leadership skills along with excellent verbal and oral communication. It is crucial that this role is able to engage their staff and allow them to take ownership of the company's mission. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning is a key member of the senior management team of the Digital and Technology Services Department and member of the Digital and Technology Executive Committee (DTEC), acting as a team to provide overall leadership for all DTS functions supporting CHOP. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning collaborates with the AVP Customer Success, PMO Sr Director, CIO and ACIOs to strategize, manage, integrate and coordinate the overall DTS direction. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning must maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends emerging technologies, and implementation best practices by participating in relevant forums and reading widely. This role has responsibility to ensure complete alignment of their portfolio at CHOP, direct creation of SLAs, and organizational structure and process to support consistent service delivery. In conjunction with the AVP of Customer Success, the Director Strategic Portfolio Planning acts as a liaison between DTS and CHOP executive leadership and clinicians creating business strategies to achieve alignment with technology capabilities and organizational roadmaps. In this role, the Director Strategic Portfolio Planning strives to ensure that technology meets the requirements of the business and clinical functions of CHOP. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning can represent the AVP of Customer Success as needed at any meeting and functions as an executive leader at CHOP participating in the CEO Council and other meetings as appropriate and, as such, exhibits executive behaviors at all times. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning manages a comprehensive and diverse set of project domain teams, vendor relations, processes and methodologies. They align with senior executives / clinicians and share the responsibility for ensuring overall business performance, departmental human resources and client satisfaction. The Director Strategic Portfolio Planning ensures compliance with all CHOP policies and procedures while fostering patient safety, championing information security and promoting transformational innovation. The five key roles of a Director of Strategic Portfolio Planning are: Strategic Planning, Initiative Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, Performance Monitoring, and Risk Management. In addition to these key roles, the Director may also be involved in financial analysis, budgeting, stakeholder engagement, and reporting to senior leadership and the board of directors. This role plays a pivotal role in driving organizational growth and success by ensuring that strategic goals are translated into actionable plans and executed effectively. The Director of Stra