Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager

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Portfolio Manager

12+ Month Contract

100% Remote

$65-$70/hour W2

This individual will direct lifecycle activities including selection, implementation, and upgrade of a collection of solutions in an assigned portfolio. This person will oversee the effectiveness of the assigned portfolio against the business strategy and roadmap and provide technical leadership in the planning, development, implementation and operational support processes of new business solutions and enhancements of existing application software/infrastructure in the assigned portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Manages the investment portfolio and ensure that all planned investments are aligned with the business and IT stakeholders and have executive stakeholder commitment
• Continuously evaluate, prioritize and optimize IT investment portfolio based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits and critical risk across all regions. The portfolio manager ensures that Investment evaluation process meets RBS's investment standards and criteria and has the proper authorization level.
• Continuously review the project investment portfolio to identify and exploit synergies, eliminate duplication across all regions and between individuals' programs.
• Reviews and assess strategic project initiation deliverables such business cases on strategic justification and risk.
• Manages resources to support demand. Ensure that the "solution teams" efforts are properly scheduled and staffed, that all staff are properly allocated to ensure that commitments are met as scheduled and within budget. Organize and direct the "solution team" and third-party providers in the planning, development, implementation and operations support of systems to support the assigned portfolio in alignment with the IM strategic roadmap
• Scheduling of projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders
• Updates and maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap based on latest changes on project and program level
• Facilitates integrated planning sessions across domains
• Responsible for cost consequence within portfolio. Study, analyze, and define the impact of business needs on the system components and its interfaces to provide maximum benefits from each system and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Tracking, mitigation of critical and portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalation to the appropriate IT leadership meetings. Monitor overall risk profile of project portfolio
• Co-ordination of critical project interdependencies to safeguard the coherent and integrated definition, planning and delivery of the portfolio
• Provides senior IT and business leadership with accurate view of the project/investment portfolio based on appropriate performance targets allowing them to make rapid and effective decisions
• Ensures life cycle assessment for selected portfolio components occurs, determining remaining useful life of hardware/software components based on business functionality, technical architecture, vendor strategies, competitor activities, and package alternatives
• Identify projects that require independent quality assurance

Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor/Master degree (e.g. Business Administration, IT Management)
• 8-10 years progressively responsible technical leadership experience in IT
• environment including topics in Security, Network, Technical Design, and Quality Assurance}
• They should have demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging technology and trends.
• Proficiency in using structured systems development methods and techniques. Process knowledge/ thinking
• Experience with Windows server based applications, SQL Databases, some .NET experience is a plus

Category Code: JN008
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