Senior Portfolio Manager

DICK'S Sporting Goods

10d•$95,200 - $158,800

About The Position

Leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of all portfolios within a domain area and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination as needed. 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. Ownership for maturing multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools within the portfolio practice. Acts as a mentor and coach to portfolio managers.

Requirements

Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred
Minimum 10 years’ experience in field overall
7+ years’ experience managing one or more large complex technology portfolios.
6+ years of experience planning 3 or more functional and/or technical portfolios within an enterprise with a combined investment of $20M+
5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies, including the use of backlogs to build capacity models.
5+ years of designing and implementing best practices in portfolio management including Intake management, demand planning, annual planning, quarterly planning, and continuous planning.
3+ years of technical program management experience
3+ years’ experience working within a product driven organization and structure.
Leader in portfolio governance, performance management, communication management and risk management
Defines and tracks Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at the business unit level within the enterprise.
Provides updates and interacts with executives at all levels of the organization.
PfMP, PMP, Lean, Agile, or Six Sigma certification
Experience and certification in SaFE methodology
Managerial Experience: 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 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 portfolio(s).
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.
Define the execution plan to disseminate 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.
Manage substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build 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 recovery plans.
Develop own and more junior team member capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, 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.
Specify and lead the delivery of the portfolio review processes to ensure that stakeholders are able to evaluate progress and agree on change at appropriate points.
Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered. Mentors junior team members.
Lead the design and delivery of 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.
Negotiate and manage deployment of program/portfolio resources and budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization across multiple portfolios and/or domains.
Lead the development and implementation of a long-term strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized and tracked across multiple portfolios and domains.
Ensure consistency in governance practices across portfolios and domains, and compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
Guide the implementation of policy and the design and implementation of portfolio, program and change initiatives.
Plan and manage budget for assigned activities within work area.