PMO Portfolio Manager

Job role:

• The Portfolio Manager will be responsible for managing and governing the portfolio of AMEA IT projects, including managing capital and other funding elements, prioritization within and across AMEA and global teams, and ensuring projects are governed in accordance with global and AMEA standards and ways of working. 
• The goal for this role is to ensure a smoothly running portfolio, capital, and project execution process in a way that maximizes business value and outcomes from the portfolio, while minimizing risk.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and manage the portfolio operating model and roles and responsibilities.
• Develop and drive portfolio management best practices and standards that will improve productivity, investment decision making and realize targeted business outcomes.
• Collaborates with the PMO COE Methods and Tools Manager to ensure use of standard methodologies, processes, PPM tools and reporting metrics (KPIs) across their portfolio.
• Work with the BU IT Leads to make sure that appropriate program and project managers are allocated to portfolio projects and programs proactively.
• Develops a set of executive and portfolio related dashboards to communicate up and down the organization the status of the program portfolio.
• Manages the intake and demand management function and maintains the capital and expense budgets across the program portfolio.
• Tracks, monitors, and manages global resourcing for projects.
• Responsible for the adoption of portfolio management methodology and provides suitable interpretation to all stakeholders within the organization.
• Contributes to the development of overall Business and IT strategy as it relates to the project portfolio and performance of that portfolio.
• Contributes to training for portfolio management functions.
• Clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of cross- functional project teams and functional management
• Business acumen: ability to think from an overall “best for the business” perspective.
• Demonstrates initiative; results oriented.
•  Portfolio Managers work closely with BU IT Leads and Lighthouse Leads to drive alignment between initiative(s) and work stream teams.
• The person in this role will interact weekly or daily with PMO Program Managers to understand program health.
• Proactively work with the BRM to make the right assignments needed for the programs in the portfolio to successfully plan, launch and get executed.
• Portfolio Managers will team with Program Managers and COE Methods and Tools Manager to execute intake and demand management, financial, estimating and resource management processes.
• They will own the accountability for the financial health of their portfolio.
• Participate in the stage gate process for a particular projects and programs.
• Report to the Regional CIO on a bi-weekly basis and provide status on capital plan, budgets.
• Interactions with regional/ BU finance, and with global portfolio team.
• Partner with WOW team to develop best practices, train PMs, identify and address issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree 
• 10+ years of experience in program, project, and portfolio management
• 7+ years of experience with the functions within program and portfolio management (what does this mean?)
• 7+ years with delivery methodologies and tools (this seems high – 5+ should be fine)
• Project, Program, and Portfolio leadership experience
• Program manager experience or people manager experience (with direct reports) (is this required?)
• Portfolio, capacity, and financial management experience
• Exceptional portfolio, program, and project management skills
• Experience driving change management initiatives across an organization.
• Self-motivated individual with passion to succeed.
• Demonstrated leadership for process harmonization across an organization.
• Strong influence management skills: ability to work cooperatively at all levels in a matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness – ability to communicate to various levels of management and employees succinctly and accurately.
• Excellent decision-making skills – ability to negotiate and balance decisions and manage competing priorities across multiple functional areas
• Team with training, resource management, integration management and analytics functions to make sure they have the appropriate methods and tools (I did not understand this point)
• Exceptional analytical, strategic, planning, organization, and time management skills to effectively execute capital plan and budgets.
• Experience implementing initiatives through effective influence management skills at multiple levels in the organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Experience in creating and delivering presentations to leadership.
• Excellent facilitation and issue resolution skills
• Previous experience operating in a matrix organization.
• Ability to work independently or collaboratively to determine and develop approaches to solutions with very little to no supervision or direction.
• Experience providing work direction and leadership to people and teams in a management role.
• Experience with Planview, IPS Unifier, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word 
• Work is performed in a typical office environment including normal work activities. 
• Hybrid ways of working have been adopted across India offices and will also be available to the Admin Support, but this role will not be fully remote.
• Role reports into the Regional CIO.
• This position requires regular attendance and punctuality in accordance with Company policies. 
• Additionally, the ability to interact well with other employees around the world is required. 
• Location: Hybrid –India based.