Sr Manager, IT Portfolio

About This Role

This role involves leading the IT Project Management team, tools, and processes, providing strategic and tactical leadership for efficient project portfolio management, and ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide objectives. This leader will ensure IT portfolio governance, manage demand and capacity, and oversee project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT, business leadership, and EPMO to support project intake, vetting, and prioritization.
• Partner with EPMO to align IT portfolio governance, lifecycle standards, and reporting with enterprise practices.
• Provide consistent and effective portfolio dashboards, reviews, scorecards, and reports.
• Serve as the point of escalation for project stakeholders or requestors.
• Ensure portfolio benefits are defined, managed, and monitored throughout the lifecycle.
• Coordinate project interdependencies across IT portfolios and enterprise initiatives.
• Identify areas for process improvement and provide recommendations.
• Ensure PMO standard operating procedures, systems, and processes are documented and aligned with EPMO standards.
• Drive resource management processes to enable a capacity-driven demand model.
• Oversee and be accountable for the IT project budget and forecasts.
• Drive process discipline and excellence in the ServiceNow PPM platform.
• Promote IT framework, governance, and processes, including Agile ways of working.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading project managers of large-scale complex projects
• Detailed knowledge of the project management lifecycle
• Knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures and processes
• Strong process management background
• Ability to incorporate project management best practices
• Strong communication skills across all levels of leadership and employees
• Demonstrated ability to partner on cross-functional teams
• Ability to deal with the ambiguity of innovation and guide projects to successful conclusion
• Strong influencing skills both internally and externally
• Ability to identify resources and align/coordinate/prioritize resource workloads
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills with a continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to utilize/design/implement complex process improvements
• Self-directed with an ability to organize, plan, prioritize
• Demonstrated leadership skills, driving empowerment and accountability across project teams
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading and delivering software projects
• Demonstrated experience engaging with senior level staff
• Experience with Agile project management lifecycles
• Possesses and utilizes leadership skills and abilities to direct and supervise employees
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong PC skills, to include MS Suite, O365, and inter-communication platforms
• Valid US driver’s license and ability to meet company driving standards

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree, preferably in IT
• 8+ years of related project management experience, 5+ years related IT experience, 5+ Supervisor/Manager experience

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of Lamb Weston Processes
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow PPM

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits

Certifications