It Portfolio Manager Jobs

• Conducts monthly, quarterly, and annual stakeholder meetings to ensure business priorities road-map is current and approved
• Ensures that the product backlog list is prioritized, clear, transparent, and visible both within IT and with stakeholders (including the negotiation of priorities across business units)
• Develops, manages, and maintains a clear vision and road-map of the assigned internal Business portfolio

• Conducts internal IT status review meetings to ensure IT resources and IT leadership are aligned and aware in order to negotiate resource availability and allocation

• Manages and shares the risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies with the stakeholders including mitigation planning
• Reviews updates of products to determine features that are relevant to communicate
• Builds, develops, and grows business relationships vital to the success of the Product Team
• Works with vendors to understand upcoming releases and how C1 can take advantage of them in our business
• Communicate updates and announce releases to users, stakeholders, and internal IT
• Works with the business process owners and IT cross-functional teams to manage, group, sequence, and prioritize work in the product backlog

• Coordinates third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects

• Assists in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility as well as develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Ensures all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget

• Manages changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques while developing spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs

• Measures project performance using sanctioned tools and techniques
• Reports and escalates to Product team and IT management as needed

Required Qualifications

• 5-10 years previous working experience as a Technical Project Manager
• 3 years previous working experience as a Product Owner within a Product Team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience in IT
• In-depth knowledge of Agile and Waterfall process and principles

• Experience working and communicating with Executive level management

• Experience creating and maintaining project plans, issue logs, risk register, and status reports
• Demonstrated strong performance in prior roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence
• Ability and willingness to adapt to change and work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong track record of delivering complex solutions with lots of cross team dependencies
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership; understand your role and accept individual responsibility for seeing a task through to its completion (end-to-end), understand when and how to escalate, take appropriate risk (avoid unnecessary risk) and understand impact of decisions

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

• Industry certifications for Project Management, PMP or PgMP preferred (PMI or equivalent)
• Industry certifications for Product Owner preferred

• Ability to accept and act on leadership feedback required
• Experience with Microsoft Project, SharePoint and or SmartSheets
• Experience with Webex and MS Teams required

• Experience working directly in IT