| Looking for Portfolio Manager Tech Lead REMOTE GC or USC at Remote, Remote, USA |
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| From: Nitu, RCI [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Portfolio Manager Tech Lead Location: Candidate can be remote but must live in one of these states: CT, DC, DE, GA, IL, KY, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, TN, WI, WV (Candidate must be a US Citizen or green card holder) Duration: 6+ Month, Contract to Hire Visa: GC or USC only JOB DESCRIPTION This is not a development role. This Manager will direct lifecycle activities including selection, implementation, and upgrade of a collection of solutions in an assigned portfolio. The Manager will also oversee the effectiveness of the assigned portfolio against the business strategy and roadmap. This Candidate should be able to provide technical leadership in the planning, development, implementation, and operational support processes of new RBS business solutions and enhancements of existing application software/infrastructure in the assigned RBS portfolio. Pushing the bounds of the retail world, this company is highly successful and accumulates over fifty billion dollars in annual revenue. Diversity of thought, community, and even location is paramount to this company, which is why this company has expanded their communal reach to over two thousand different storefronts. With a mind for diversity, this company understands the worth of their employees and they strive to create a practical work life balance for their employees. This practical and diverse mentality is extended to the ample opportunities that they offer to their employees, including overtime for contractors, as well as other monetary and title-based incentives. Longevity of employment is pivotal to this company, and they actively search and create long term employment options even for contractors. Between the diversity that this company offers and the job security that this company offers, even to contactors, this company proves that it has an unequivocal entrepreneurial spirit and is insurmountably invested in their employees. RESPONSIBILITIES Maintain strategic alignment - Time Spent- 40% Work collaboratively with Global portfolio management and business analysis peers to maintain the strategic IT project portfolio alignment with Business and IT strategy Manages the investment portfolio and ensure that all planned investments are aligned with the business and IT stakeholders and have executive stakeholder commitment Continuously evaluate, prioritize, and optimize IT investment portfolio based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits, and critical risk across all regions. The portfolio manager ensures that Investment evaluation process meets RBSs investment standards and criteria and has the proper authorization level. Continuously review the project investment portfolio to identify and exploit synergies, eliminate duplication across all regions and between individuals programs. Reviews and assesses strategic project initiation deliverables such business cases on strategic justification and risk. Manages resources to support demand. Ensure that the "solution teams" efforts are properly scheduled and staffed, that all staff are properly allocated to ensure that commitments are met as scheduled and within budget. Organize and direct the "solution team" and third-party providers in the planning, development, implementation, and operations support of systems to support the assigned portfolio in alignment with the IM strategic roadmap Metric: Business stakeholder satisfaction regarding IT business alignment on project portfolio Integrated planning and road mapping- Time Spent- 30% Scheduling of programs and projects that best support the strategic intent of RBS IT Scheduling of projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders Identification of direct and indirect dependencies Updates and maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap based on latest changes on project and program level Facilitates integrated planning sessions across domains Communication of a multi-layered portfolio plan Coordinates with Leadership, Project Managers, vendors, and Business Consultants to allocate resources to areas within the portfolio in need of most improvement. Balance the resources across projects and operating units to optimize benefits delivery to the business Responsible for cost consequence within portfolio. Study, analyze, and define the impact of business needs on the system components and its interfaces to provide maximum benefits from each system and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Metric: Accurate and realistic portfolio plan Percentage of deviations from the portfolio plan Monitor and report on project portfolio- Time Spent- 20% Analyze and report on the performance of the project portfolio and individual programs throughout the entire lifecycle Continuously monitor and track the full RBS IT project portfolio, its progress and performance and the successful development of the required business and IT capabilities Tracking, mitigation of critical and portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalation to the appropriate IT leadership meetings. Monitor overall risk profile of project portfolio Co-ordination of critical project interdependencies to safeguard the coherent and integrated definition, planning and delivery of the portfolio Provides senior IT and business leadership with accurate view of the project/investment portfolio based on appropriate performance targets allowing them to make rapid and effective decisions Ensures life cycle assessment for selected portfolio components occurs, determining remaining useful life of hardware/software components based on business functionality, technical architecture, vendor strategies, competitor activities, and package alternatives Metric Ability of senior management to take rapid and informed decisions on the project portfolio Quality Assurance- Time Spent- 5% Ensure delivery across the project portfolio that is in line with quality standards, for prioritized projects Identify projects that require independent quality assurance (e.g., high risk, high value projects) Facilitate stage-gates for strategic high-risk projects in the portfolio Develop portfolio quality assurance framework, standards, and tooling. Support the delivery of project quality assurance (e.g., peer reviews) Metric: All high-risk projects have sufficient quality assurance to avoid disruptive deviations Monitor benefits achievement- Time Spent- 5% Report on actual benefits realization based on the approved business case Benefits tracking: initiate the process to monitor actual benefit realization in the business after project implementation Evaluates if business benefits significantly deviate from expected benefits, escalate issues to the appropriate party and implement lessons learned in the portfolio prioritization process. Metric: Percent of investments where realized benefits have been measured and compared to business case Organizational context The main difference between a Senior Portfolio Manager and a Portfolio Manager is the size of the portfolio, and the number of projects: Guidelines are RBS Business Strategy (the promises and six Strategic Pillars), and the IT Strategy, architecture roadmap and budget. This role exists both on a global level as well as on Operating Unit level Framework & guidelines: Implement new applications with limited technical, application, and business resources, while working toward an aggressive implementation date. How to juggle the resources Project coordination and prioritization of around 30 or more projects or activities concurrently ensuring regulatory, "Keep the Lights On (KLO) work gets the proper attention. What is the sequence of work How to use the resources most effectively. Know when to push back. Financial dimensions: 5M to 10M expense budget, 5M to 20M capital budget. Responsible for the business case development for planning of initiatives and the financial management of expenditures within budget. Is accountable for the first level of approval for the bill of authority. Degree of latitude: This position has the authority to recommend the solution to a particular business problem, based on a set of requirements ensuring that it meets the Enterprise Architectural Guidelines and Principles. This position has authority to assign work to 3rd party suppliers. This position has the authority to recommend staff assignments to meet the needs of the team. Contractual disputes unresolved at this level will be escalated according to the established governance process. Leading in RBS Inspiring Dealing with ambiguity Directing Business Value Customer Focus Demonstrate business relevance to business management Strong communicator with mid-level leadership members on strategic topics, adding value to vision and strategy Management Role: Indirect via technical leadership QUALIFICATIONS Expertise/ language/ functional skills Fluent English (word and writing); Analytical skills Strong facilitator skills in improvement processes Strong in strategic topics, adding value to vision and strategy Education Relevant Bachelor/Masters degree (e.g. Business Administration, IT Management) 8-10 years progressively responsible technical leadership experience in IT Experience This role must have knowledge of retail grocery and the technology that supports that environment including topics in Security, Network, Technical Design, and Quality Assurance They should have demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging technology and trends Proficiency in using structured systems development methods and techniques. Process knowledge/ thinking (General Architect) Experience with Windows server-based applications, SQL Databases, some .Net experience is a plus. Keywords: information technology green card trade national Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Illinois Kentucky Maryland New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee West Virginia Wisconsin |
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