IT Operations Portfolio Manager
Contract
San Jose, CA
The Operations PMO team is seeking a seasoned Portfolio Manager who will help setup a portfolio management structure across the organization. In this role the person will define, implement and govern the processes related to project delivery, structuring around prioritization, programs and projects. The candidate must have demonstrated qualifications to lead, drive, manage, plan, organize, report, identify/mitigate risk and direct all phases of project delivery to a team of very sharp, very seasoned project and program managers. This role will also include resource forecasting, capacity planning, and portfolio level reporting throughout the Product Lifecycle of projects from initiation through completion.
• Define, implement, and govern the vetting of concepts, evaluation of opportunity assessments, ROI analysis and approving concepts for execution in future project delivery cycles.
• Define, implement, and govern the prioritization process to assess new projects from various business units, request and assign resources, and align these requests against organizational strategy, customer urgency, capacity, resources, budgets and other prioritization criteria.
• Define, socialize, and enforce a program template structure across all programs including setting up objectives, goals, strategies, metrics, resource management, task management, issue management, dependency management and post mortems.
• Identify the needs for tools in managing the portfolio and projects and work with cross functional teams to get these tools built and deployed to improve the productivity of product and project professionals in the organization.
• Define, publish, and coordinate a calendar for the organization related to various processes and provide the meeting support around the calendar.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and communications while providing oversight for issue resolution in a matrix management organization.
• Provides recommendations to senior personnel on significant matters often requiring coordination and understanding of interdependencies between several organizations.
• Assists in recruiting, training and mentoring project managers in the organization around structurally sound program and project management techniques.
• Builds relationships within all areas of the client and gains exposure to, and knowledge of, every facet of the Site Operations environment including technical, communications, finance, and resource management and forecasting.
• Is a leader in driving best practice solutions based on past experience, research, and visionary thinking.
• Implements and improves our project methodologies and processes while developing a mature program model.
Job Requirements
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• Ability to design, standardize, evangelize, implement, govern and measure and set of structured processes across the organization for managing a product portfolio, programs and projects.
• Strong leadership, logistics, driving value, problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Significant Experience working in a technology infrastructure, application development, or professional services environment.
• Ability to function effectively in a fast paced environment and manage multiple Program, Clarity, and Project status deck updates.
• EXCEPTIONAL verbal and written communications skills and the ability to work well with other departments and varying levels of management including very senior executives.
• Extensive experience and expertise with MS Project, MS Office, Visio, and PowerPoint
• EXCEPTIONAL risk and problem analysis skills, including experience proactively identifying a problem, and determining a solution.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills as well as attention to detail which are critical in this role.
• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
• Certification in project / program management (a plus but not required - real world experience is paramount)
Please send resumes to ftrigueros@us-buxton.com
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