Director of Portfolio Management

Rückbauanlage Gundremmingen•Chicago, IL

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Director of Portfolio Management is responsible for maximizing the readiness of RWE’s project portfolio by helping to allocate execution resources, de-risking projects, and leading process improvements from development to financial approval, including through the transition from late-stage project development to shovel-ready project execution. The role will also be responsible for supporting AI use cases in project across execution while measuring and validating the impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, accounting, finance, or social sciences, or similar field preferred
Minimum 6 years experience of business experience including quantitative assessments, such as project engineering, estimating, and project management
Minimum 6 years experience including detailed quantitative management of complex business function and cross-functional process improvement
Minimum 1 years experience directly leading cross-disciplinary teams
Experience managing a project portfolio
Proficiency in managing project schedule scenarios across a portfolio of projects
Engineering or technical background with strong proficiency in problem solving
Expertise in late-stage project development activities, including experience stewarding projects from mid-stage development through financial approval
Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint) and Teams.
Intermediate level Excel experience is required, including pivot tables, advanced financial formulas, troubleshooting, Index Match, graphs, etc.).
Advanced understanding of running analytics for KPIs to drive decision-making on cost controls, approvals of POs, and EPC contract negotiation and value-engineering analyses.
Strong organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to coordinate on multiple tasks and deliverables among multiple departments.
Advanced problem-solving skills including ability to identify, troubleshoot, execute, and communicate root causes, variance drivers, risks, and solutions to resolve issues.
Proven ability to build relationships and effectively communicate with people from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Efficiency minded with a strong drive to improve ways of working
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) or Professional Engineer (PE) a plus but not a requirement
Minimum 3 years experience as a renewables developer or project manager preferred but not required
Proficiency with Salesforce and PowerBI preferred.

Responsibilities

Directing Execution & Project Management support across the portfolio
Maintain a view of projects across the portfolio, stages, and the de-risking support required, including Estimating, Pre-Construction, equipment and EPC Procurement, and early execution/mobilization hand-off.
Implement process and methodology improvement to project readiness assessment to ensure projects ensuring that Execution and Project Management are executing activities when most valuable to projects, avoiding redundant work
Implement ability to standardize feedback across the organization, incorporating automation to enable an efficient update cycle
Help to design and implement methodology to quantify project value early through working with I&V and Commercial teams.
Maintain list of project value drivers, including NPV optimizations and cost-benefit evaluation of design and schedule alternatives for priority projects and enforce accountability
Actively collaborate with EPC Procurement to ensure the matching of top-tier EPC partners to high-quality, value accretive projects
Implementing process improvements and improving portfolio visibility
Design and implement process improvements to FID-quality cost estimating and scheduling in order to accelerate project FIDs, while adding clarity to the process
Design and implement Portfolio Management function KPIs to measure team success transparently
Track and show where projects are in the Execution and Project Management “funnel” with a focus on which projects are about to advance to a new stage to resource plan as the pipeline matures
Continuously question what are the necessary support-function activities needed for a project to commercialize and ensure the appropriate sequence of de-risking activities to execute on high value projects
Support AI enablement throughout Execution & Project Management
Support ideation and development of AI use cases in Execution & Project Management, helping to coordinate and build synergies across the AI efforts of different teams
Interview team members and develop and disseminate AI “light” ideas (e.g., how to use LLMs to complete repetitive tasks) that can be performed more efficiently
Maintain the Execution & Program Management AI roadmap