Director, Portfolio Management

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

April 18, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Job Summary:  As a Total Rewards Portfolio Director, you will be responsible for establishing and governing the  Total Rewards (TR) project portfolio as agreed by the TR Leadership Team (TRLT). They will provide a clear, consistent, independent, structured and integrated approach for managing and governing projects across the group, with the ultimate objective of the program delivering to plan.  

This position will work directly with the TRLT  to translate the function’s long-range plan and annual business plans into program and project plans. This role will monitor and control projects utilizing agreed project management methodologies, tools and techniques (including Agile/Scrum). This position will work with the team on resource allocation across the networked organization. Program/project management, strategic thinking and consulting skills are necessary to providing strategic recommendations to ensure objectives are consistently met. 

This role is an individual contributor yet team player to ensure the global programs and projects use the process and tool capabilities required to run an efficient and effective portfolio of projects. Thought leadership is required to recommend process improvements. The ideal candidate is a self starter, strategic thinker, effective problem solver, is able to connect the dots across multiple functions, and is an outstanding communicator who is able to influence without authority. 

 

Key Responsibilities can include: 

• Establishing, leading and working on TR Portfolio related efforts using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation which cover: 

• Processes 

• Communications 

• Tools 

• Reports and dashboards 

• Training 

• Ensuring that the Total Reward function delivers to plan and flagging upcoming risks, leading conversations to reprioritize work if necessary 

• Providing visibility, consistency, and transparency of progress status reporting. The role needs to provide management with the insights and options required to ‘course correct’ in a timely manner, when and as required. 

• Connecting with the TRLT to ensure that processes, tools, systems, reports and dashboards are efficient, effective, embedded and are delivering value to all stakeholders.  

• Responsible for building program and project management capability across the Total Rewards operations starting with the TR Project Sr Managers and the TR Operations team leads and their direct reports. 

• Building and maintaining relationships across Total Rewards Operations leaders and key stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor 

• Ensuring TR projects are budgeted, defined,