Business Portfolio & Value Manager

Responsibilities

• Work in program portfolio team focused on planning, managing and governing business portfolios including key initiatives
• Lead and facilitate cross functional planning that can build the view, and support planning discussions among the owners of the work, to include resources, dependencies and sequencing across portfolios
• Coordinate and synchronize portfolios via regular planning sessions to provide a common understanding of the current work streams, backlog and outcomes
• Monitor processes, tasks, and metrics associated with the business portfolios, and measure performance against the baseline scope, budget, time, and resources
• Develop best governing practices and principles to increase performance and lower operating costs to ensure optimal process efficiencies
• Develop and recommend project and portfolio management processes that drive the on time, in budget delivery of business critical initiatives
• Ensure transparency regarding the status of business project portfolios to enable fact-based decision making by leaders
• Analyze and assess the consistency of portfolio performance to ensure adherence to established policies, procedures and practices within service level agreements, documentation standards and methodologies meet established service level agreements
• Ensure consistent delivery against objectives by setting standards, providing governance, enforcing accountability, and setting the pace of transformation
• Develop executive level-reporting and metrics with a focus on visual depiction of complex information
• Partner with others within and outside the Portfolio Management Office to support and enable change management efforts

Qualifications

• Significant progressively responsible experience in a Portfolio Management Office, Strategy Realization Office or the equivalent, for a large organization, preferably at a large financial services organization
• Advanced knowledge of project lifecycles and management methodologies (e.g., Agile, SDLC, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Project Portfolio Management
• Advanced skill to influence, negotiate and persuade to reach agreeable exchange and positive outcomes
• Advanced skill building effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact
• Advanced skill exercising initiative and using good judgement to make sound decisions
• Advanced skill using innovative thinking to solve problems and facilitate the decision making process
• Advanced skill producing desired results and achieving goals and objectives
• Advanced skill identifying and analyzing business requirements and recommending solutions
• Advanced skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely
• Critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
• Expert word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Desired - Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Expert skill in the use of Microsoft Office Products (e.g., Excel)
• Expert skill in the use of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
• Experience in working with business intelligence tools (e.g., Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau, etc.)