REMOTE- Senior IT Portfolio Manager - #1412106

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Job Description

A client is looking for a Senior IT Portfolio Manager to sit remotely. You will primarily be responsible for maturing the portfolio/project management framework/ processes across the IT organization to foster collaborative partnerships with IT and Business partners, and identify creative, cost-effective solutions to achieve strategic business value. They will combine an understanding of portfolio management principles with the existing technology portfolio/ processes/ methodologies, to develop value-oriented plans that guide proactive decision-making in order to manage unforeseen demands, constraints, risks, and dependencies inherent to the clients environment.

Additional Responsibilities

 Helps to guide value-driven development that aligns with the Objectives and Key Results of the organization, and monitors and reports on key performance indicators to tie results and return on investment back to overall vision.

 Functions as a servant leader fostering Agile Continuous Delivery, promoting and coaching key principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing, and fulfill their cross-functional potential. Provides ad-hoc coaching and guidance to Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and individual team members.

 Build trusted and effective relationships with IT and Business partners in order to facilitate improved communication and create a collaborative partnership among portfolio stakeholders that enables resource demand planning, budget management, initiative strategic alignment, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions

 Contributes to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on options, risks, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on departmental processes. Partners effectively with IT, Finance, and Business stakeholders to support capital expense planning, to build strong lean business cases for product and project funding / budgets, backlog management, pre-project planning, cost estimation, investment management, and business relationship management activities. Evaluate investment performance of the portfolio against stated goals, objectives, and key results in partnership with IT and Business partners.

 Support the implementation and administration of the project portfolio management solution across the IT organization with the goal of ensuring alignment across IT and its partners, focuses on prioritization, program & project tracking, resource alignment across all IT initiatives, and improving the successful execution of IT initiatives. Creates mechanisms for regular process reviews and continuous process improvements to support Delivery Leads, Program and Project Managers within the portfolio to ensure adherence to Delivery Team governance and methodology.

 Drive agility and improvement by managing risks and dependencies, escalates impediments to ensure portfolio delivery. Proactively and consistently communicates with the team, business owners, and leaders to ensure all impacted stakeholders understand risks, issues, and activities related to the portfolio. Manages and improves the flow of value through the portfolio by assessing and optimizing the practices associated with the team (DevOps, Product Management, Security, Architecture, etc.) in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

We are a company committed to creating inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources Request Form (https://airtable.com/app21VjYyxLDIX0ez/shrOg4IQS1J6dRiMo) . The EEOC "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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Skills And Requirements

10-15+ years experience in IT Program/Project Management with demonstrated enterprise portfolio management skills (project/product intake, resource planning, demand management, budget management, product management) and delivery experience

Strong background in enterprise IT organization with multiple delivery frameworks/tools/ methodologies (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, Lean, Waterfall, SAFe, AzureDevOps, Jira)

Proven people leader with teams of 10+ direct reports (Project managers, business analysts, RTE, financial analysts, scrum masters, etc.)

Proven background in financial planning, forecasting and building out project budget/resourcing/ financial plans (Skills in Excel, financial dashboards, etc.)

Strong background leading Agile organizations/ teams/ transformations and coaching teams at all organizational levels

Experience measuring teams reporting metrics and dashboards that illustrate the flow of value on the performance and efficiency of the portfolio

Highly developed strategic planning skills with a strong understanding of IT operating models and experience working with multiple teams to develop strategies and deliver solutions

Develops and delivers effective presentations. Presents information and ideas to others in an succinct and impactful manner

Solid understanding of IT estimation activities for small to large/complex initiatives Experience working in the 3PL/ logistics/ freight industry

SAFe/Scrum certification: SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

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We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].

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