Director, Portfolio Management
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Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.
A Brief Overview
The Director, Portfolio Management provides leadership, organization, and coordination to support project governance and management for initiatives and projects owned by the Digital, Information Technology, and Data project management team. This leader ensures all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for project management. This leader also manages change and ensures the continuous improvement of project and portfolio management methodology, while also ensuring morale, productive and overall health of the team continues to improve over time.
What you will do
Overall responsibility for definition/refinement and documentation of project and portfolio management best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with corporate, divisional, and departmental goals. Implements, measures and reports on the execution strategy defined for the team.
Oversight for the project management development life cycle such as schedule, budget, risk, issues, actions working in both waterfall and agile methodology approaches. Scouts for and evaluates new processes, methodologies and tools as opportunities for innovation and project execution excellence.
Develops effective communications for both internal and external key stakeholders, and keeps all engaged and informed on the PMO book of work. Identify and communicate product/program dependencies, resource constraints, and any other risks to the portfolio.
Builds a high-performing team. Manages career progression for team members to include hiring, performance reviews, salary decisions, mentoring, and coaching.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards
What you will need
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, IT Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
10+ years experience in business administration, information technology, or related roles required
4-6 years of people leadership experience required
Experience with CA PPM
1-3 years Agile experience
Strategic business acumen to align projects and programs with organizational strategy, lead and perform budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analysis. Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across programs.
Project Management expertise includes: deep understanding of methodologies like agile, waterfall, and hybrid models. Establishing governance frameworks for oversight, reporting, and accountability. Optimizing use of people, tools, and time across multiple projects. Ensuring deliverables meet team standards and stakeholder expectations.
Leadership, people management, coaching and mentoring to guide and inspire both project managers and cross functional partners. Engagement of key stakeholders is critical at the partner and executive levels.
Demonstrated outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills to present complex information clearly to all stakeholders including senior leadership team; proven collaborator and facilitator; expert in bringing multiple groups together to agree on project scopes and build consensus.
Experience with Agile Software Delivery. Safe, Jira, Clarity, CAB, ITIL, ServiceNow and other related software. Skilled in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
What you will get
Competitive weekly pay and bonus opportunities.
Total job benefits valued at more than $10k*. This includes a 401(k) plan with company matching, medical coverage plans customized to suit your needs and a commitment to work/life balance through our paid time off (PTO) programs, company holidays and paid volunteer days.
Up to $5,250 in tuition reimbursement per year.
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