Sr. Manager, Portfolio Management (Remote)

Date Posted:

2024-10-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UTCT1: Corp - CT - Remote Remote Location, Remote City, CT, 06101 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.    

To realize our full potential, RTX is committed to creating a company where all employees are respected, valued and supported in the pursuit of their goals. We know companies that embrace diversity in all its forms not only deliver stronger business results, but also become a force for good, fueling stronger business performance and greater opportunity for employees, partners, investors and communities to succeed.  

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team: 

Role Overview:

The role of the EIS PMO Portfolio Manager provides management oversight to an assigned portfolio within the EIS Services Catalog. They function as the liaison to the Service Owner(s) and Service Leader over their assigned portfolio. They provide day to day oversight of any assigned PMs, manage accuracy of the portfolio programs and projects and manage delivery end of end of all projects within the portfolio. They function across a team of portfolio managers providing support and successful delivery of projects within EIS PMO. They support EIS demand and delivery process execution, stakeholder managements across various stakeholders, and understand the service roadmap to ensure successful delivery for their stakeholders. They contribute to and drive a customer/user centric workplace focus in partnership with EIS PMO leadership.

What You Will Do:

• Owns, builds, and maintains effective partnerships with EIS service owners, sub service leads, BRMs, and ES partners to ensure success of cross-department functions and project execution.
• Own the establishment and execution of short- to medium-term operational plans (e.g., less than 0-2 years) in support of the EIS PMO and assigned portfolio.
• Develops new processes, standards or operational plans in support of functional strategy. 
• Skilled investigation and analysis required to manage technically complex problems and lead/guide teams (directly or indirectly) toward mitigations and solutions.
• Problems and issues faced are undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.  Problems typically involve consideration of multiple sites, geographies, products or customers.
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own function, which may include external customers or vendors depending upon the job.
• Requires ability to influence others outside of own work area on policies, practices and procedures.
• Manages a team of primarily experienced professionals. 
• Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead project teams.
• Partner with assigned portfolio(s) Service Owners to understand service roadmap, Planview reporting, and service priorities.
• Partner with User Experience and Customer Success teams as needed to enhance delivery or partnership with the assigned portfolio/service lines.
• Support the EIS and PMO leader through management of special assignments as requested.
• Ensure assigned portfolio teams are developing appropriate project and program status reporting (Std, Non-Std and Operational Work), adhering to standard methodologies, processes and proposal/project entries are up to date in PPM Tool.
• First escalation point for PMs and Program Managers and assigned portfolio partners; resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion and manages risks and mitigations accordingly.
• Monitors and triages non-standard demand requests in partnership with assigned portfolio leads.
• Facilitate frequent and routine key Project/Program plan reviews with PM teams and portfolio reviews with assigned portfolio partners.
• Evaluate and document EIS Demand scope, level of effort, funding, and availability of resources with project timing (requirements gathering, ROM etc.).
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement with portfolio teams and peers in line with EIS and ES PMO governance standa