Senior Manager IT Portfolio

Job Seekers can review the Job Applicant Privacy Policy by clicking here (http://ryder.com/job-applicant-privacy-policy) . Job Description : Summary The Sr. IT Portfolio Manager will be responsible for maturing the lean portfolio/project management framework across the IT organization to foster collaborative partnerships with IT and Business partners, and identify creative, cost-effective solutions to achieve strategic business value. The Sr. IT Portfolio Manager combines an understanding of lean portfolio management principles with the existing technology portfolio, to develop value-oriented plans that guide proactive decision-making in order to manage unforeseen demands, constraints, risks, and dependencies inherent to Ryder's environment. To accomplish this, the Sr. IT Portfolio Manager will maintain and support the development of project portfolio status reporting standards and oversee reporting of their portfolio to IT Leadership on key performance metrics, such as budget and schedule health, risks and mitigation plans, project/product intake, demand, and resource management processes. Essential Functions Solid understanding of accounting rules for expense and capital activities, manages portfolio budgets (range from $10M-$100M) and acts as a steward of the company to ensure budgets are best utilized to achieve stated scope and anticipated benefits are realized. Works with IT Finance to support labor forecasting and reporting needs on projects and programs within the portfolio. Evaluates past funding decisions against budgetary request to assess impact to planned budgets vs. actual expenditures and variances. Build trusted and effective relationships with IT and Business partners in order to facilitate improved communication and create a collaborative partnership among portfolio stakeholders that enables resource demand planning, budget management, initiative strategic alignment, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions. Contributes to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on options, risks, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on departmental processes. Partners effectively with IT, Finance, and Business stakeholders to support capital expense planning, to build strong lean business cases for product and project funding / budgets, backlog management, pre-project planning, cost estimation, investment management, and business relationship management activities. Evaluate investment performance of the portfolio against stated goals, objectives, and key results in partnership with IT and Business partners. Helps to guide value-driven development that aligns with the Objectives and Key Results of the organization, and monitors and reports on key performance indicators to tie results and return on investment back to overall vision. Functions as a servant leader fostering Lean-Agile Continuous Delivery, promoting and coaching Lean-Agile principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing, and fulfill their cross-functional potential. Provides ad-hoc coaching and guidance to Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and individual team members. Define and implement portfolio management processes to support evidence-based decision making on IT investments and process improvements such as planning, data collection, analysis, prioritization, reporting, and governance. Maximizes portfolio performance though decisive leadership to optimize the allocation of financials and resources across project / programs, while balancing portfolio value versus overall risk. Support the implementation and administration of the project portfolio management solution across the IT organization with the goal of ensuring alignment across IT and its partners, focuses on prioritization, program & project tracking, resource alignment across all IT initiatives, and improving the successful execution of IT initiatives. Creates mechanisms for regular process reviews and continuous process improvements to…

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