Portfolio Manager (Dallas, TX or Buffalo Grove, IL ) Hybrid

Top skills:

• Must have experience managing operational expense budgets and capital expense budgets
• Must have experience managing intake projects and outtake projects
• Must have experience delivering the process

Key Responsibilities include:

• Managing portfolio and program delivery of the expected business value/outcome.
• Managing the intake process for incoming demands, including requests for new services, changes, or enhancements.
• Developing and maintaining demand management plans, including timelines, resource projections, and contingency plans.
• Oversee initiatives of significant magnitude regarding complexity, cost, time-constraints, internal and external staffing; allocate appropriate resources to meet timely completion of specific initiative tasks.
• Track and report on portfolio and program financials; Oversee the financial management, project/resource budgets and planning for staff unit, provide executive level reporting and analysis.
• Responsible for managing and owning the operational expenditures (OpEx) and organization budgets, and includes partnering with the PMO for managing capital expenditures (CapEx) budgets.
• Review and provide input on vendor deliverables and SOWs to ensure alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Manage and track workforce allocation and utilization.
• Oversee vendor management activities including contracts, budgets, and value assessment.
• Responsible for portfolio leveling to avoid unnecessary ramp up and ramp down along with identify and mitigating portfolio risks.
• Develop and implement project management methodologies and best practices to build on the team s skills and abilities.
• Contribute to the establishment of common practices, tools, and templates for portfolio and project management, and ensure adherence to company standards.
• Use metrics and data visualization effectively to report portfolio performance and support decision-making at the team or organizational level.
• Facilitate project/program reviews and checkpoint meetings.
• Escalate issues that threaten portfolio and project success.
• Manage multiple Scrum and project teams handling all aspects of solution delivery.
• Oversee Agile processes and promote the use of Agile best practices and methodology.
• Ensure delivery of initiatives are on time, on budget and fall within organizational performance targets.
• Identify improvement opportunities to optimize execution speed and effectiveness.
• Track and communicate overall team progress.
• Ensure initiative scope, schedule, budget, quality, and associated metrics are available, accurate, and meet corporate standards and guidelines.
• Support ongoing strategy execution of new initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in portfolio management, budget management, project management, and vendor management.
• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, Scrum, SAFE Agile
• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken.
• Master s degree