Job Title: PMO/Portfolio Manager
Location: Denver, CO (fully on-site)
Pay: $65 – $85/hour, DOE
Details: Contract-to-hire
Position Overview:
As Portfolio and Reporting Manager, you will facilitate collaboration across various cross-functional technical, product, and non-technical agile teams, manage multiple portfolios, administer the PPM tool, and provide reporting support to extract data from Planview.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive end-to-end portfolio management for key verticals.
- Provide support for Quarterly planning of portfolios ensuring clear visibility to the new and approved initiatives.
- Manage and lead IDEA intake process collecting key data elements to enable approval, prioritization, and drive them through the process.
- Drive prioritization of the initiatives with product managers/owners ensuring engineering has clear visibility to the approved initiatives with priorities.
- Partner with the Product team ensuring a large backlog is built.
- Enable visibility to the portfolio health for each portfolio, raising any risks or issues proactively.
- Enable change management so there is clear alignment to the priorities.
- Enable out of the box reporting from the PPM tool, so KPI information is available and can be consumed as needed.
- Partner with engineering leads ensuring resource and capacity planning is done at every sprint and quarterly manner.
- Establish PPM tool guidelines by aligning alignment with broader organizational leaders.
- Manage PPM tool as an administrator ensuring organization is adhering to the guidelines.
- Lead the PPM tool migration to new tool
- Be a change agent to drive and implement changes related to PPM tool implementation. Build related artifacts and presentations as needed.
- Build required processes, templates, training, and mentorship to the team in partnership with other PMO team members.
- Provide expert advice and coaching to leads and teams to ensure best process execution.
- Communicate roll up of project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues risking milestone delivery.
Qualifications:
- 7-10 Years of proven experience as a Portfolio Manager.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience implementing them in large-scale projects.
- Experience in the media industry will be a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical expertise with strong business acumen.
- Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Executive reporting, focus on Portfolio/PMO KPI and generate executive level updates
- PPM tool administration will be critical
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to engage and influence at all organizational levels.
- Ability to communicate and report at executive level will be an advantage.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex information and make data-driven decisions.
- Proven track record in leading teams to deliver high-quality results within challenging timelines.
- Change management expertise and experience driving organizational transformation.
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Agile certifications will be considered.
- Bachelor’s degree in technical fields such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
- Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence experience a plus.
- Experience working in Agile, waterfall and hybrid environments.
- Experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Associate Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply for open positions with our company.
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