Principal Responsibilities of the Role

• Responsible for driving the portfolio management discipline in partnership with their assigned IT Senior Leader(s) and developing a trusted advisor relationship with them.
• Defines, plans, tracks, and manages portfolios, including identifying key resources, providing the direction required to meet the program/project objectives and commitments (schedule, resource, cost, benefits, scope, content) and ensuring appropriate mgmt., customer, and supplier involvement throughout the program lifetime.

Activities

• Partners with the IT Senior Leaders and drives annual roadmap planning and prioritization of Invest projects/programs for financial approval in accordance with established budgets/timeframes
• Responsible for maintenance to organizational performance standards on project related data quality
• Responsible for managing all aspects of portfolio management from discovery through delivery implementation
• Responsible for resource modeling
• Provides management and strategic direction to a project team and shares responsibility for the project development, budget and schedule
• Set priorities, defines dependencies, and schedules activities
• Reports on financial data for portfolios/programs/projects
• Creates high quality, timely, and informative status updates that management can leverage for Steering Committees, Executive Portfolio Reviews, and CIO meetings
• Ensures projects / programs are delivered on time and within budget
• Manages risk exposure across multiple programs
• Develop and maintain project, program and/or PMO operational metrics
• Prepares and delivers effective presentations to stakeholders
• Identifies key project risks and manage to ensure the delivery of business goals
• Ensures consistency and adherence to PMO operational standards and processes
• Leads global project management collaboration efforts

What you need for this position:

Functional Skills

• 7-10 years’ experience in project and program delivery
• Financial forecasting and budget analysis.
• Resource forecasting and capacity planning.
• Decision making
• Financial management of portfolios/programs/projects exceeding $5M
• Problem management / Root Cause Analysis
• Project and Program management
• Risk Management
• SDLC Methodology – Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development
• Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management
• Understanding of future technologies

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of budgeting and work scheduling tools and techniques
• Advanced knowledge of SDLC / ability to apply SDLC using Solution Delivery Methodology
• Project / portfolio management tools – Project / BVP/ CBA / PPM
• Understand the advances in technology during the project’s execution, infrastructure changes that impact security and data management and unknown dependent relationships among hardware, software, network infrastructure and data
• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Certification in PMP and / or Agile related required; Graduate Degree desired

Soft Skills

• Ability to execute with minimal manager direction
• Ability to influence
• Learning Agility
• Adaptability / ability to manage change/ agility
• Interpersonal skills
• Leadership — Effectively leads teams & people
• Problem solving / analytical thinking
• Ability to interface with C-Suite Leaders
• Navigating organizational politics
• Time management / prioritization

Language Skills

• Fluent English and French