Portfolio Office Lead

We are currently seeking an experienced Portfolio Office Lead, who will provide oversight to portfolio level value-driven governance for Waterfall and Agile product deliveries across organization. The position will play a crucial role in ensuring that all Technology portfolio investments are aligned to strategic business outcomes and meet short/long term business needs and value expectations.

What you will do:

Portfolio Value Alignment & Agile Governance

• Govern portfolio efforts in a Scaled Agile environment
• Own portfolio planning and prioritisation process working closely with finance, product teams and the Digital Office to ensure investment is provisioned for delivery
• Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries
• Partner with Delivery Leads to develop and review lean business cases, linking business benefits to technology investment
• Act as the owner of agile framework and waterfall methodologies, templates and procedures ensuring they are fit for purpose

Investments for funding and allocation requests

• Ensure Scaled Agile governance processes and decisions are applied consistently

Portfolio Transparency, Metrics, & Risk

• Oversee the creation and review of key metrics, outcomes, and reporting related to key milestones and objectives
• Assess and report the health of product deliveries by assessing whether the backlog continues to meet strategic objectives with objectivity, accuracy and transparency
• Ensure that appropriate stakeholders are engaged in risk identification and mitigation
• Predict and identify risks/opportunities from interdependencies of product deliveries
• Support and collaborate with the delivery leadership teams sanctioning investment against the portfolio backlog

Team Leadership

• Recruiting, developing and retaining the Portfolio Office or Programme Office team and carrying out pipeline demand, forecast modelling and analysis of the portfolio, determining resource requirements. • Support the identification/removal of barriers to delivery
• Promote the pace and energy within the team and leading by example
• Strong commitment and support for the success of the team and its outcomes
• Create a climate that encourages cross business/function teamwork, impartiality and objectivity
• Facilitate the development of coaching skills in others
• Empower others to recognise success and address underperformance

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications:

• Experience setting up Lean Agile Portfolio office
• Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with diverse leaders
• Proven experience managing effective governance in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery
• Experience overseeing Enterprise and large budget initiatives
• Able to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong ability to design and implement dashboards; ability to analyse data and present it in a way that tells a story
• Ability to chair, present credible picture of progress and support Senior Executive Steering meetings
• Comfortable with ambiguity, can handle the unexpected with flexibility
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others

Position Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple projects in a dynamic environment
• 5+ years of experience in an agile / scrum environment with a demonstrated appreciation for large enterprise standards
• Proven track record of managing a cross-functional process or delivery teams in a large Enterprise environment
• Well versed with Scaled Agile Framework’s Portfolio Management methodology and leading PI planning events
• Proficient knowledge of Agile/DevOps/Program Mgmt. Lifecycle Methodologies & Standards
• Excellent written and verbal communication and analytical skills
• Experience working in a geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-group
• Knowledge and experience using Clarity PPM, Jira, Confluence, MS Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Visio

Other Requirements:

• SAFe SPC certification preferred
• Knowledge of Wealth, Insurance and Financial industry is preferred
• Position may require some travel between offices to meet with project teams and/or business customers. (Occasional 0-33%)

We offer:

• Salary based on B2B contract (via Devire)
• Working for a leading corporation with a stable market position
• Possibility to work in an international environment
• Private healthcare
• Multisport card