IT Application Portfolio Director

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direction, coaching and support to the project teams
• Ensure effective and efficient execution of the program to established guardrails of scope, timeline and budget. Track execution and compliance metrics and provide regular status and feedback to stakeholders
• Work with line managers (Competency Center), Resource Management to staff projects and resolve staffing issues
• Actively manage and ensure compliance to project financial processes, reporting and escalation
• Conduct appropriate reviews to ensure documentation and solutions are of acceptable quality
• Manage program risks, making sure they are identified, evaluated and addressed as per established guidelines
• Provides active leadership by mentoring and developing PMs. Is recognized as a subject matter expert and thought leader in the project and program management space

Required Skills

• Stakeholder Management both Business and IT
• Business Process, Program Execution Leadership with IT implementations experienced
• Key knowledge in the areas of product lifecycle, program governance, and portfolio value realization through integrated IT platforms
• Tools with Siemens PLM, SAP S/4
• Applied Product Development Processes and Project Resource Management processes and industry best solutions
• Product and Project Portfolio management business processes and IT platform enabling end-to-end “Idea-to-Retire” transformation