IT Portfolio Manager

Role Description

This is a remote position. The Portfolio Manager is accountable for the project objectives. They're responsible for managing resource allocation, influencing sponsors, and prioritizing work. The Portfolio Manager plays an active role in making decisions involving processes and structures to support enterprise-wide change. The Portfolio Manager must have the ability to manage business sponsor relationships and navigate the political landscape. They will oversee medium or large projects and, at times, be assigned to multiple projects.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for portfolio oversight, management, and delivery of all investment-related activities within the assigned portfolio; selection, prioritization, and integrated delivery roadmap.
• Design Program controls for swift mobilization, delivery, and value realization.
• Implement staff development to ensure top performance.
• Provide operational leadership for programs.
• Consistently delivers against agreed investment plans across the enterprise; is responsive and realistic about time/resources to deliver.
• Applies systematic thinking to identify new solutions.
• Able to win impact and influence regardless of organization boundaries and relationships.
• Is personally credible and maintains confidences.
• Engage with Business units and lead activities that will help the company transform toward strategic goals.
• Curate a single demand signal, single supply, and capacity plan for the technology and digital team as it relates to the portfolio of investments.
• Ensure tight sequencing including orchestration of cross product/team dependencies.
• Provide input into the creation/development/update of standardized Project/Program Management artifacts/methodology in collaboration with the ITD and PM community to identify ways to elevate overall ITD delivery.
• Publish executive level scorecards, status reports, and metrics to the broader organization that provide transparency into the ITD Portfolio.
• Own the consolidated high-level tracking/reporting of the end-to-end investment portfolio from intake/discovery, governance, and project delivery for the committee.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree; equivalent work experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of project management experience.
• Leadership experience managing cross-functional teams.
• Previous experience in Healthcare IT.
• Experience in implementing, monitoring, and optimizing project management methodology.
• Significant experience using and optimizing Project Management tools (e.g., Planview, MS Project, ServiceNow).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strongly preferred.