The Sr. Manager Strategic Initiatives Portfolio is responsible for driving excellence in delivery of the strategic Initiatives portfolio through leading coaching and supporting a group of program and project leaders across multiple lines of business. This position requires significant interaction with crossfunctional departments within all levels of the organization from executive leaders functional leaders teams and vendor partners. They take a direct and handson approach to ensuring each strategic initiative delivers within scope quality schedule and budget constraints. They are an evangelist for delivering with a high degree of excellence through leveraging standard delivery frameworks tools and behaviors. They resource program and project managers drive performance and provides active coaching.
- Accountable to ensure endtoend delivery of the strategic initiatives within their assigned portfolio including ensuring scope cost schedule resources scope quality and risk are progressing as planned
- Evangelizes coaches and teaches proven delivery practices including frameworks tools and behaviors
- Ensures dependencies of multiple related programs and projects are known and managed
- Supports team by removing barriers escalating risks and issues building consensus and driving decisions
- Owns portfolio governance including portfolio status financial management and reviews and executive alignment.
- Drives portfolio evaluation through ensuring scoping estimating resource demand planning and road mapping are defined
- Recruits motivates leads and develops a superior team of professionals who can lead enterprise level initiatives through internal and external pipelines
- Provides clear consistent leadership management and mentoring for direct reports and the broader delivery organization. Inspires empowers and motivates the organization leading by example
Qualifications :
- B.S. or equivalent degree in Business Management Business Administration or related field
- 10 years progressive delivery offices program management offices or management consulting practice with a minimum of 5 years in an established leadership role overseeing largescale enterprise initiatives
- 3 years experience successfully managing leading and developing a team of program and project management professionals
- PMP Agile or other relevant certifications highly preferred
- Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel Word Outlook OneNote PowerPoint Teams)
- Experience with portfolio management tools such as Smartsheet & Jira
- Extensive Indepth understanding of multiple delivery methodologies including but not limited to waterfall agile and Lean
- Comprehensive knowledge and progressive experience managing enterprise programs and projects managing a group of programs and projects managing project portfolios and establishing processes for governance & control frameworks
- Exceptional experience in resource capacity planning budgeting and financial management. Strong planning and organizational skills
- Very strong communication presentation and interpersonal skills and the ability to interact professionally and build relationships with a diverse group of executives managers vendors and subject matter experts
- Deep quantitative and analytical abilities with a clear understanding of the business excellent problemsolving skills and sound judgment
- Established people leader with a proven track record in organizational management and rapid organizational growth
- A driven selfstarter obsessed with moving the company forward who thrives in a fast paced rapid execution environment. A solid executor someone who gets things done
- Ability to present complex ideas and influence stakeholders and partners at all levels
Additional Information :
- Travels less than 5% of the time.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime