What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager - Portfolio position at Wesco?
As the Manager - Portfolio, you will directly support the Strategy Realization Office (SRO) by ensuring effective governance of the entire Enterprise project/product portfolio. You will ensure the portfolio is aligned with the business objectives, prioritized, resourced, governed, and the performance analyzed and communicated. Additionally, you will ensure the cross-functional dependencies between projects and products efforts are connected and coordinated.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for overseeing the approval, planning, prioritization, development, and implementation of enterprise project and product efforts
- Responsible for developing, establishing, and standardized project management methodologies and procedures
- Responsible for proactively identifying bottlenecks before they disrupt timelines
- Responsible for efficient allocation of team members based on skills and capacity
- Responsible for using metrics to accurately predict project completion dates
- Responsible for fixing the underlying systemic issue when a failure occurs, rather than just treating symptoms
- Responsible for enabling projects/products to achieve a return on investment and meeting the goals and objectives of the organization
- Responsible for developing and maintaining the enterprise project and product governance processes and standards to enable effective portfolio management
- Responsible for establishing a comprehensive internal audit program aligned with the required SOX Controls
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree – Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain required; Master's Degree preferred
- Licenses/Certificates/Designations – PMP, SCRUM Master, Agile Product Owner preferred
- 5-7 years of experience as an Agile Product Owner & Scrum Master, Six Sigma
- Required to communicate effectively with project teams, product teams, stakeholders, executive management.
- Customer Focused
- Demonstrated Leadership
- Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Change Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Mapping, Capacity Modeling, Data Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Analytical Ability
- Ability to Work Independently
- Ability to travel up to 25%
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