Director Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Church Pension Group Services Corporation • New York, NY

41d • $150,000 - $195,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Church Pension Group (CPG) is a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, located in Midtown Manhattan. CPG was founded in 1917 to provide pension benefits to eligible clergy of the Episcopal Church. Since then, its mission has expanded to include life and disability insurance, health benefits, property & casualty insurance, and publishing. The Director Enterprise Portfolio Manager oversees the strategic alignment, prioritization, and delivery of projects across the organization to ensure optimal value delivery and alignment with organizational goals. Responsibilities include annual planning, on-going BU/CU/ITS portfolio analysis and performance monitoring, project financial management, stakeholder communication, leadership, and driving strategic portfolio management.

Requirements

• Ability to effectively improve operations and processes across the enterprise for project planning and management
• Strong financial management and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong experience with scoping, development of budgets and schedules for complex programs/projects with multiple workstreams.
• Ability to develop and direct strategic planning to meet organizational goals, providing overall strategic governance for projects by establishing standards, processes, and tools used for effective project delivery.
• Ability to establish methodologies to set productivity and quality targets and to assess results for all projects within the enterprise portfolio.
• Ability to respond to escalated project issues that may impede project delivery and coordinates solutions across the enterprise portfolio.
• Ability to monitor and analyze project metrics to identify weaknesses or problems and to propose operational improvements and cost savings for future projects within the enterprise portfolio.
• BA/BS required.
• 10+ years of Project Management or Operations Experience.
• Proven experience with different types of projects and deliverables, including: strategic presentations, creative concepting and development, video, digital, influence, event-based programs and vendor integrations.

Nice To Haves

• Portfolio Management or Project Management Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Planning and Management: Ensure that all projects and programs within the enterprise portfolio align with the strategic plan, collaborating with senior leadership to set and adjust strategic direction. Oversee the selection, prioritization, and scheduling of projects based on business values, dependencies, strategic important while managing resource constraints.
• Resource Management: Support Resource Management Office with the allocation of resources efficiently across projects to maximize value delivery, as needed. Ensure that resource utilization aligns with BU/CU/ITS portfolio priorities.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate enterprise portfolio performance, risks, and changes to stakeholders while managing stakeholder expectations and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders. Manage the impact of changes within the enterprise portfolio, ensuring smooth transitions and change adoption.
• Project Financial Management: Providing oversight, monitoring and reporting of the enterprise portfolio financials including budget vs. forecast and managing cashflow. Works closely with the Project Managers and Resource Management Office for project status and impact.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Oversee interdependencies, assess risks, identify mitigation strategies and contingency plans, and ensure adaptive responses to changing conditions.
• Governance, Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establish and enforce enterprise portfolio and project governance frameworks. Track and report on enterprise portfolio performance. Conduct regular reviews and audits to assess enterprise portfolio health.
• Continuous Improvement: Encourage and support continuous improvement initiatives within the enterprise portfolio. Foster a culture where feedback is valued, and lessons learned applied to enhance enterprise portfolio performance.
• Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Benefits

• Flexible Benefits available to eligible employees: Medical (including Vision) Dental Supplemental Dental
• Core Benefits automatically provided to eligible employees: Employer funded defined benefit pension plan (five year vesting) Employee Life Insurance Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax) Business Travel Accident Insurance Worker’s Compensation Employee Assistance Program Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years) Retiree life insurance
• Elective Benefits available to eligible employees: 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting) Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) Commuter Benefits New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents) Educational Assistance Program available to eligible employees Maternity/Paternity Leave available to eligible employees Time Off available to eligible employees: Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holidays You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees