Position Summary:

Be a key business partner to support business transformation, build and promote the IS project portfolio of a business-related domain for which they are accountable of the execution.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Relationship Management
  • Act as leader with all IS resources involved in project deliveries by providing guidance and supervisory support to the project ensuring alignment with commitments
  • Can act as coach or mentor for other portfolio managers or project leaders.
  • Participate to project leader staffing, Manage functionally and coach the project leaders.
  • Establish strong partnership with the internal customer stakeholders of the related domain. Work regularly with Business Process Owner and/or Global Leaders
• Portfolio definition
  • Accountable to define a portfolio roadmap along with key domain stakeholders: content and ambitions, macro timeline, rough estimates, or budget
  • Accountable to provide project budget inputs to IS Leadership and Executive Sponsors
  • Translate and organize the defined roadmap into projects plan (timeline, budget, resources)
  • Communicate the vision and the portfolio to IS and internal customer stakeholders
  • Act as Business Domain Solution Architect: bridge the gap between internal customer stakes & goals and technology solutions to secure and enable business continuity
• Portfolio execution
  • Accountable for portfolio execution from opportunity to end of each and every project of the portfolio.
  • Responsible of scoping phase to define budget & planning estimates and quality targets definition.
  • Accountable for making sure the project delivery respects its commitments in terms of scope, deliverables, costs & timing.
  • Provide inputs for Capacity Planning and secure staffing with IS Domain Managers and with business stakeholders when appropriate.
  • Participate in vendor management (RFP/vendor selection). Follow-up vendor performance.
  • Manage Fixed priced resources involved in project.
  • Define and measure user adoption in project deliverables. 

Education, Skills, & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 6 years of experience Information Technology/Services portfolio or project management