Manager, IT Portfolio

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Job Summary:

The Manager, IT Portfolio will be accountable for the portfolio management of IT projects and investments for a specific business area throughout the planning and project or investment lifecycle. This role will report directly to the Senior Director, IT Planning and Governance and work closely with the CIO, senior business & technology leaders to ensure the successful delivery of all project or investment lifecycle phases.  The role will be responsible for:

• Portfolio oversight, planning, and management of assigned investments and initiatives to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Acts as the primary resource for the investment council, steering committee and senior executives for Portfolio communications, and for reporting the state and performance of initiatives within the portfolio
• Provides and escalates data on achieving an optimized mix among project investments, making the best possible use of all resources and delivering the maximum value and benefits from projects within their assigned portfolio
• Identifies, prioritizes, coordinates and acts as the resource manager for project management resources engaged with the assigned initiatives within the project portfolio
• Stakeholder Management that fosters building partnership & IT credibility

We are seeking a high energy, self-motivated, results-oriented leader, who is comfortable working in a global, team-oriented IT environment and has a proven success record to lead transformational initiatives.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence to the appropriate IT governance functions (Project Management Lifecycle and the Software/Systems Development Lifecycle) relating to the assigned portfolio in accordance with the organization’s guidelines, policies and practices.
• For assigned Portfolio, facilitate and coordinate the efforts of senior leadership, and project managers toward the establishment of the project portfolio definition, its structure and processes.

  This includes:

  • Supporting Business Partners in the creation of strategy and multi-year roadmaps for a specific business area
  • Annual planning that identifies and prioritizes projects based on alignment to business objectives
  • Recurring demand management and strategic alignment of assigned projects based on portfolio categories and criteria
  • Gathering and providing data that enables portfolio evaluation, selection and prioritization
  • Execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results (on budget, on time, defined success criteria etc.) for assigned portfolio

• Portfolio status reporting including financials, delivery performance, and risk / issues; Conduct assigned portfolio health reviews

• Provide relevant data needed for prioritization at the appropriate level.
• Collaborate with senior business and IT leaders to identify opportunities and facilitate RFP and selection processing including vendor proposals needed for applying technology solutions to address the challenges from increasing digitalization.
• Provide relevant data needed for prioritization at the appropriate level.
• Direct the development and maintenance of communications and reporting about the project portfolios, their contents and the performance of individual initiatives to stakeholder and governance council(s), the steering committee and senior executives.
• Collaborate with senior business and IT leaders to ensure and balance the availability of the required skills and competencies across project teams within the project portfolio, as mandated and resourced by leadership.
• Work with business and IT leadership to conduct reviews quarterly — or at other specified intervals — with senior business and IT executives, stakeholder committees, the steering committee and other relevant bodies.
  • Validate and assess the assigned project portfolio, execute change and reprioritize as necessary to meet business needs.
  • Inform them of any issues with the performance of i