Technology Portfolio Manager (Projects)

Prudential Assurance Company Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Assurance Company Singapore is seeking a skilled individual to lead technology transformation initiatives in their IT Division. In this role, you'll manage division-wide projects, support strategic alignments, and drive change management efforts. Ideal candidates will have at least 3 years of portfolio management experience, familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and strong stakeholder management skills. A Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or IT is required, along with proficiency in project management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience with portfolio management or managing mid-sized IT programs.
• Excellent understanding of IT project delivery concepts.
• Experience in governance and project review meetings.

Responsibilities

• Manage technology transformation initiatives for delivery excellence.
• Coordinate technology transformation roadmaps.
• Support strategic alignments and execution plans across departments.

Skills

Portfolio management

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Stakeholder management

JIRA

Confluence

Education

Bachelor degree (Business, Finance, IT or equivalent)

Project management certifications

Tools

Project management tools

Scripting

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

In this role, you drive continuous change and improvement in the IT Division by taking initiative and ensuring plans are set up, monitored, and implemented. You will work closely with various stakeholders to manage the IT Division Portfolio in the themes of projects, resources, IT deliveries and key milestones. This role ensures alignment with technology strategy, drives key initiatives, and embeds governance and change management practices to deliver measurable outcomes and impact. This position reports to Head of Technology Portfolio Management & Transformation.

Responsibilities

• Manage division-wide technology transformation initiatives, ensuring delivery excellence.
• Coordinate the development or refinement of technology transformation roadmap.
• Support Technology departments to translate strategic intent into execution plan across the various departments in Technology, ensuring alignment between Technology stakeholders.
• Drive change management efforts to embed new ways of working.
• Establish and manage program governance structures, steering committees, and reporting frameworks.
• Facilitate required forums / activities within managed processes on a regular cadence.
• Facilitate Group reporting related to projects and other IT activities where required.
• Support team members with activities in non-IT Portfolio domains (e.g. IT audit, Group reporting etc.) where necessary.

Working Experience

• At least 3 years of working experience with portfolio management and/or managing mid-sized IT programs / projects through Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent understanding of IT project and delivery concepts.
• Experience in the facilitation of governance, project review, steering and other project / portfolio related meetings.
• Experience in stakeholder management, especially senior management highly desirable.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, project management tools or scripting highly desirable.

Education

• Bachelor degree (Business, Finance, IT or equivalent).
• Insurance, IT and/or Project management certifications / qualifications highly desirable.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.