Executive Director, EPMO

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Lead and manages the Enterprise Project/Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) Operations. Develops and facilitates enterprise Project and Portfolio Management processes and reporting. Monitors of compliance to the standards. Serves as the overall subject-matter expert in Project and Portfolio Management Operations knowledge areas. Provides leadership and insights on company-priority programs and projects.

Leads and manages selected Enterprise PMO operations and/or services. Manages staff, assemble project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, provides training, and develop project schedules. Determine and acquire resources needed. Support IT related business planning requirements including, but not limited to budgeting, scheduling and workload planning.

Principle Duties:

• Leads and manages team of professionals responsible for enterprise project portfolio management operations. Lead multiple projects and/or EPMO services and apply efficient and innovative solutions to the supporting systems, hardware, software, networking, programming, and/or applications problems.

• Manages staff through hiring, training, evaluating, coaching, and disciplining of direct reports. Provide mentoring and coaching to team members through performance evaluation and identifying development opportunities; continually developing project team competencies.

• Establishes and promotes industry-recognized project management best practice and standards. Responsible for the central repository for Projects, PM tools, templates, and historical data. Establishes and maintains a process for monitoring and reporting on compliance to adopted PMO policies, processes and procedures.

• Perform strategic planning and maintain alignment of projects with RGA’s strategic direction

• Responsible for providing the Project Portfolio Management reporting tools, metrics and dashboards to the Governance Committees and the IT Balanced Scorecard construct including Quarterly Performance Packages. Ensure that projects provide the necessary project metrics to the portfolio management reporting process.

• Provides a program to ensure continued utilization and maturation of best practice project management operations standards and methodologies.

• Provides the RGA Project Management methodology on-boarding orientation for all Project Managers

• Develop and maintain effective business relationships, coordinating service delivery in line with negotiated Service Commitments. Take ownership of the relationship, ensure that business partner’s objectives are met, and gain mutual understanding when the objectives are not feasible

• Manage the business partner’s application portfolio by understanding and communicating needs to internal IT project teams and external vendors.

• Ensure properly defined and communicated project requests. Support business partners, Technology Partners, and Product Teams in developing business requirements and business cases ensuring IT requests are understood and properly supported by all stakeholders; ensuring the integrity of the RGA IT Project Initiation process.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience required

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) and/or LOMA certification preferred

Work Experience:

• 10+ Years experience in project management, portfolio management, and resource management. required

• 5+ Years management experience. required Direct experience in leading a PMO build out and managing/running a PMO. required

• 10+ Years running or operating within PMO function as well as operations and support of an enterprise application / platform. preferred

• 10+ Years of application Portfolio management experience preferred Previous experience managing large international, global projects.

• 10+ Years of effective management of projects with virtual teams preferred

Licenses and Certifications:

• Six Sigma / Lean Process Evaluation / Improvement Preferred

• Microsoft Certification Preferred

• PeopleSoft Certification Preferred

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