Principal PPM (Intelligence and Data)

DICK'S Sporting Goods

6d•$135,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of Athlete Intelligence and Data (I&D) Squad work tracks across multiple domain areas and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination. Partners with product managers and others on intake and demand planning. Engages all disciplines across the technology team to facilitate capacity planning and alignment of capacity to demand through planning, prioritization, sequencing of work, and dependency mapping. Utilizes defined practices, tools, and deliverables to track and report on the overall health and progress of delivery against portfolio plans and goals. May alternatively be accountable for leading program management across multiple highly complex and interdependent programs including planning efforts, managing complex integrations, implementation, reporting, and performance to ensure the successful delivery of defined value and outcomes. In all cases has ownership for maturing and tailoring multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools to work across multiple portfolios and/or domain areas. Acts as a mentor and coach to junior team members.

Requirements

Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred
Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years )
Experience of interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames (Over 10 years to 15 years)

Responsibilities

Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of portfolio outcomes within a broad area of responsibility, using appropriate portfolio management methodologies to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across multiple programs and/or portfolios and domains to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice across assigned programs and/or portfolio(s) and domains.
Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.
Lead the planning and dissemination of innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
Lead the design of transformational change activities, and manage the delivery of initiatives within broader change programs, ensuring integration with related programs ; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at portfolio and domain levels. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the portfolio, develop and agree on recovery plans.
Act as subject matter expert in a broad area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Develop and maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Lead the production and approval and management of program and/or portfolio plans to ensure integration of activities across portfolios and domains, appropriately organized to deliver on defined objectives, comply with the organization's approved methodologies, frameworks, and standards and compliance with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.
Lead the delivery of the portfolio and/or program reviews to ensure that stakeholders are able to evaluate progress and agree on change at appropriate points.
Assess existing operations in area of responsibility, generate and implement new innovation processes to ensure continuous improvements are delivered.
Mentors junior team members.
Lead the design and delivery of program and/or portfolio level assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the program can deliver to time, budget, and quality.
Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and/or portfolio resources and budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization across programs and/or portfolios and domains.
Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across multiple programs and/or portfolios and domains. Proactively identifies incremental benefit generation opportunity areas.
Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within area of responsibility, and ensure compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
Plan and manage budget for assigned activities within work area.
Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with one or more complex programs or initiatives, escalating these where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these.
Provide authoritative specialist advice to leadership on the implementation of policy pertaining to the design and implementation of programs and/or portfolios as well as change initiatives.
Lead or contribute to data-focused initiatives across Data Engineering, data and reporting migrations, identity systems, and advanced analytics (including data science and LLM creation and deployment).