Senior Im Portfolio Manager - Contract Position

We are looking for a Senior IM Portfolio Manager to take ownership for identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating project and program resources engaged with all initiatives within the selected project portfolio. The portfolio manager is a primary resource to the project/program-related steering committees, and the senior leadership assigned to oversee the portfolio. The position is also responsible for senior executive engagement and reporting on the state and performance of initiatives within the selected project portfolio. This role assumes the overarching responsibility for supporting organizational and IT leadership in their efforts at overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of IT investments and initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Provide client consultation to develop investment objectives,
• Facilitate and coordinate the efforts of leadership toward the establishment of the project portfolio definition, its structure and processes, from demand management and strategic alignment of projects and programs to portfolio categories and criteria, through evaluation, selection and prioritization; to execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results.
• Engage with and conduct monthly (or at other intervals as specified) reviews with senior business, IT, executives, stakeholder committees, the IT steering committee and other relevant bodies to validate and assess the project portfolio, execute change, and reprioritize to meet business needs as required.
• Manage the capital planning process for respective business units.
• Own the relationship with the Project Management Office.
• Direct the development and maintenance of communications and reporting around the IT project portfolios, their contents and the individual performance of initiatives to stakeholders, the IT steering committee, and senior executives

Requirements:

• 5+ years working experience in IT Portfolio Management
• High-level of IT literacy
• A relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Post graduate qualification
• PMP