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The Enterprise Portfolio team with our client has a remote contract need for a Senior Portfolio Manager whose role will be critical in delivering success for our client and will help to enable and deliver next generation retail technology.

This role can be focused on enabling the Enterprise Portfolio Management function in support of  a number of exciting and innovative areas including eCommerce, Marketing, Omni-channel, Merchandising and Pricing, Supply Chain, Corporate Systems, Security and Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Architecture, and others! If you love to inspire and innovate, please join us!

About the role:

• The Sr. Portfolio Manager leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of all portfolios across multiple domain area and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination as needed.
• Partners with product managers and others on intake and demand planning.
• Engages all disciplines across the technology team to facilitate capacity planning and alignment of capacity to demand through planning, prioritization, sequencing of work, and dependency mapping.
• Utilizes defined practices, tools, and deliverables to track and report on the overall health and progress of delivery against portfolio plans and goals.
• Ownership for maturing multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools within the portfolio practice.
• Also acts as a mentor and coach to portfolio managers.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Portfolio Management

• Support the Portfolio practice by leading the development and implementation of key planning cadences such as Annual Planning and Quarterly Planning inclusive of dependency management, capacity planning, and issue/risk management.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across multiple portfolios and domains to identify relevant stakeholders to create mutually supportive working relationships.
• Act as a strategic thought leader by bringing actionable insights and trends as opposed to after the fact reporting.
• Engage with technology and business stakeholders to develop and understand the overall technology portfolio roadmap, its health, and align recommendations for optimization and effective delivery.
• Drive portfolio alignment across key strategic technology investments ensuring aligned delivery of key benefit milestones, effective resolution and escalation of unresolved issues and risks, and continued senior leadership engagement in strategic decision making.
• Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of portfolio outcomes within a broad area of responsibility, using appropriate portfolio management methodologies to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved
• Specify and lead the delivery of portfolio sync and review processes to ensure that stakeholders can evaluate progress against plans and agree on changes to strategy and delivery at appropriate points.
• Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately across the enterprise and domain portfolios. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of commitments within the portfolios, assist with developing and guiding the activation of resolution or mitigation plans.
• Use structured change management methodologies are in place to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.

Lean Portfolio Practice Development

• Enable operational excellence and decentralized portfolio and program decision making through a solid understanding and practice background in Lean Portfolio Management and Scaled Agile Frameworks.
• Partner with Portfolio, Product, Program, and Agile Practice partners to refine and implement ongoing portfolio planning cadences in support of Annual Planning & Quarterly Planning.
• Collaborate with portfolio and other practice partners to continue to define and implement standard portfolio reporting packages in support of aligned, timely decision making.
• Develop and refine key communication and reporting cadences and tooling to minimize redundancy and optimize timely delivery of key information to stakeholders to enable efficient decision making in alignment with overall operational model rollout.
• Support Product, Program and Agile practices as a Lean Portfolio Management and RTE SME to sure continued alignment of Portfolio objectives across the organization.

Talent Development

• Build the LPM practice and continuously evolve team process standards to drive quality and efficiencies
• Coach and ensure all teammates are getting the training and education needed to develop professionally

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7 – 10 years’ experience

• The ideal candidate would have deep experience in portfolio management, but specifically in designing and facilitating both Annual and Quarterly Planning cadences for technology organizations.

• Agile / Scrum certification – Preferred
• PMI PgMP or PfMP certification – Preferred
• Scaled Agile RTE Certification – Preferred
• Scaled Agile LPM Certification – Preferred
• Scaled Agile SPC Certification – Preferred