Portfolio Value Manager, EPMO

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of coordinated bodies of work assigned to technology teams to advance the strategic goals of capital projects and the portfolio.
• Organize and coordinate bodies of work and provide strategic guidance to assigned teams and project managers.
• Actively contribute to the EPMO project prioritization and portfolio balancing processes by providing estimations, insight, and expertise into recommendations and implications of portfolio changes.
• Facilitate post-delivery benefit tracking and reporting process across the project portfolio.
• Facilitate demand planning and align to capacity data from technology areas to forecast future resource and capacity needs or opportunities.
• Communicate insights with key stakeholders and collaborate on mitigation strategies as needed.
• Conduct and provide analysis and operational insights for the assigned project portfolio(s) and related performance metrics.
• Monitor benefits realization and track progress toward achieving portfolio strategic goals.
• Identify and manage cross-portfolio dependencies; work collaboratively to document, resolve and, where necessary, escalate issues to leadership.
• Work across teams to identify opportunities for improvement in solution delivery and project management practices.
• Provide leaders with timely, accurate information and data to support effective decision-making.
• Monitor benefits realization and track progress toward achieving portfolio strategic goals.
• Support continuous improvements to strengthen the flow of value from the portfolio through delivery and technology teams.
• Research, recommend, and support the adoption of continuous improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business operations, project management, or related field, or equivalent work experience, required.
• Scrum Master, Product Owner, project management, or other relevant certification required.
• Additional project management certification preferred.
• Leverage Lean Six Sigma knowledge and/or certification preferred.
• 7 years’ experience managing complex, high-risk, and high-visibility initiatives using a combination of agile and project management practices required.
• Proven ability to apply and adapt delivery standards within complex organizations and across multiple IT domains (infrastructure, enterprise data, software development, etc.) required.
• 5 years’ experience leading cross-functional, interdependent, and complex portfolios, programs, or projects in a health plan or pharmacy benefit management environment required.
• Experience with project tracking tools (MS Project, ADO, PPM Pro, Smartsheet) required.
• Experience working within an Enterprise PMO, abiding by and participating in development of governance processes, excellence best practices, and oversight / steering committees required.