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Manager of Portfolio Management
Cambridge, MAWe are partnered with a higher education institution in Cambridge that is hiring for the following role:
Manager of Portfolio Management
Cambridge, MA
Essential Functions:
Manager of Portfolio Management
Cambridge, MA
Essential Functions:
- Supports the Director to develop and implement portfolio management processes including:
- Project intake, decision making, and prioritization
- Development of portfolio structure
- Portfolio reporting and decision support (Investment, Resource Utilization, Project Status)
- Escalation channels
- Project and organization-wide Metrics
- Supports resource management and utilization decisions to ensure proposed projects are supported with appropriate resources from both a skills and workload perspective.
- Works with the leadership teams to understand available investment resources that help guide project approval decision making and portfolio positioning.
- Monitors IT investments and their adherence to established budgets.
- Supports time tracking functions across the organization.
- Works with project management team to ensure portfolio management standards are adhered to.
- Provides portfolio performance information to senior leadership as required, including the definition and measurements of metrics that support decision making.
- Measures IS&T Service performance and implements improvements.
- Conducts in-depth root-cause analysis, to identify trends and resolve recurring project/portfolio challenges.
- Manages portfolio level analysts as appropriate.
- Meets regularly with team to gather work statuses and consolidate at a portfolio level.
- Ensures that all team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
- Uses good judgment and creative ideas to improve projects and overall IS&T business.
- Uses past experiences to identify potential areas of improvement.
- Requires 5 or more years of IT Project Management experience.
- Requires 2 or more years of IT Portfolio Experience.
- Requires experience in supervising, building and maintaining relationships with people at a variety of levels.
- Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum is desired.
- Technical, hands on management experience in a high-tech environment.
- Experience in the Higher Education environment is desired but not required
- Proven skills in managing within a matrix organization.
- Experience with portfolio management processes and/or tools a plus.
- Manages improvement processes that impact customer satisfaction and relationships.
- Strong oral, written and presentation skills.