Director of Enterprise Portfolio Management

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise leadership for Strategic Initiative Alignment, collaborating with Executive Management and business unit leaders to translate business strategy into prioritized initiatives, ensuring investment alignment with Simmons Bank’s strategic objectives.
• Partner with business unit representatives to establish and maintain enterprise prioritization of key programs, portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Monitor portfolio activity, support escalation and issue resolution, and communicate directives and insights between executives and key stakeholders to ensure clarity of direction and visibility into portfolio health.
• Enable timely decision-making and issue resolution by ensuring efficient information flow across the organization, providing rapid triage of critical portfolio issues, and engaging appropriate stakeholders through resolution and closure.
• Establish and maintain the enterprise governance cadence, including Executive and Senior Leadership forums, to support strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions related to demand management; this includes the creation and facilitation of a Strategy and Investment governance committee as appropriate.
• Management of Enterprise Portfolio Execution, defining standards, processes, tools, training, and communication supporting execution of strategic initiatives; ensure visibility of portfolio processes to executives, governance bodies, and business partners.
• Promote a culture of value realization and benefits delivery, ensuring strategic initiatives deliver expected business outcomes and accelerating benefits realization where feasible.
• Evaluate, adopt, and champion effective enterprise “ways of working” (e.g., agile and hybrid delivery models) to ensure efficient execution and translation of strategic vision into measurable outcomes.
• Leverage business intelligence and analytics to identify portfolio risks and performance gaps, collaborate on solution development, and recommend initiatives to improve operational and strategic outcomes.
• Ensure all portfolio-related activities, documentation, and practices comply with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, including completion of required compliance training.

Qualifications

• Executive presence with the ability to establish credibility and influence with Directors, Executive Leadership, regulators, shareholders, and teams; serves as a confident and persuasive voice in strategic, executive-level discussions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, demonstrating professionalism, sound judgment, and the ability to clearly convey complex information to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to exercise discretion and sound judgment when handling highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to build productive relationships and work effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Advanced organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively in a dynamic, enterprise environment.
• Willingness to represent Simmons Bank through engagement in community and external events, as appropriate.