Director, Product/Portfolio Governance
Washington, DC, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day agoDice Job Match Score™
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Job Details
Skills
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
- GOVERNANCE
- CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- ITIL
- AGILE
- LEAN
- PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
- PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS
Summary
Currently, we are hiring for the following position;
Job Title: Director, Product/Portfolio Governance – DHMS Executive Operations
Function: Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Location: Onsite in Rosslyn, VA – 5 days per week
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director supports the DHMS Program Executive Office and functions as Chief of Staff leader for the Executive Office. This role helps senior leaders run the organization more effectively by improving how work is governed, how teams are organized, and how executive meetings drive decisions.
This position is intended for someone who has worked in a software or product-driven organization and understands how leadership teams should review costs, schedules, performance, and priorities. The role is hands-on and execution focused. The Director is expected to help shape how leaders meet, decide, and follow through, especially during periods of change.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working closely with senior leaders, can simplify complex topics, and has experience helping organizations adopt better ways of working.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Governance and Organizational Effectiveness
- Support efforts to refresh and improve governance processes, including how strategic decisions are made and escalated
- Help leaders clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision ownership within a product or portfolio environment, from senior / executive leadership down through product / project execution
- Assist with organizational design changes and help ensure new structures are adopted in day-to-day work
- Help redesign executive meetings so they focus on cost, schedule, performance, and results rather than status updates; ensure successful implementation of the redesigned meeting structure
- Develop clear meeting agendas, pre-read materials, and decision summaries
- Capture decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines to ensure follow-through
- Lead (as directed) key strategic transformation initiatives designed to elevate the level of performance of our own team as well as the client's
- Contribute experience, expertise, and sound judgment to strategic discussions and planning sessions
- Proactively share insights that contribute to improvement
- Support organization and prioritization of product and capability portfolios
- Help leadership understand tradeoffs across priorities, funding, and capacity
- Support change management efforts by translating leadership decisions into clear guidance for teams
- Support daily operations of the DHMS Executive Office and priority initiatives
- Coordinate taskers, leadership requests, and cross-team actions
- Draft and coordinate executive briefings, decision memos, and leadership materials
- Track leadership commitments, dependencies, and risks
- Maintain simple, clear trackers so leaders can see progress and issues
- Identify gaps or delays and help drive resolution
- Minimum of 5–7 years of experience supporting senior leaders in a Chief of Staff, PMO, or executive operations role
- Experience working in a software, product, or portfolio-driven organization
- Demonstrated experience supporting governance changes, organizational changes, or operating model improvements
- Experience preparing materials for executive-level meetings and supporting leadership decision-making
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work onsite in Rosslyn, VA, five days per week
- Ability to work directly with senior leaders and exercise good judgment
- Strong organizational and follow-through skills
- Comfort driving change and improving how teams operate
- Ability to explain complex topics in clear, simple terms
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence without direct authority
- Prosci Change Management Certification (ADKAR Model)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library Version 4 Foundation (ITIL 4 Foundation)
- Scaled Agile Framework Lean Portfolio Management Certification (SAFe LPM).
- Experience implementing AI solutions / products / process improvements
Thank you.
- Dice Id: 10107417
- Position Id: 26-00009
- Posted 1 day ago
Company Info
Optima Global Solutions, Inc. provides solutions, services and consulting resources that help progressive organizations automate their internal business processes. This results in increased efficiency, lower operating costs, fewer processing errors, greater employee productivity, improved reliability and accuracy for their stakeholders, customers, employees, vendors, and business partners.
Optima builds and optimizes Intelligent Automation Solutions that combine intelligent data capture with business process management best practices to streamline your business operations and increase your bottom line. This includes accounts payable processing, employee onboarding, expense tracking, sales order processing, vendor management, and custom applications.
Leveraging Kofax Intelligent Automation Platform, Optima solutions eliminate manual data entry inconsistencies and backlogs while adding controls to ensure compliance and analytics to measure success.
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