Director, Portfolio Management

Safelite; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in auto glass services is seeking a Director of Portfolio Management. This role entails overseeing project governance and management within the Digital and IT sectors, ensuring effective strategies are implemented while fostering team leadership and development. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in project management, strategic alignment with organizational goals, and strong leadership skills to guide a high-performing team.

Benefits

401(k) plan with company matching

Medical coverage plans

Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

Paid time off (PTO) programs and company holidays

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in business administration or IT.
• 4-6 years of people leadership experience required.
• Project Management expertise including various methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for project & portfolio management best practices.
• Oversee project management development life cycle, both agile and waterfall.
• Develop effective communication for stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Strategic Business Acumen

Interpersonal Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, IT Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

CA PPM

Agile Software Delivery

Jira

Job description

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Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.

Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.

A Brief Overview

The Director, Portfolio Management provides leadership, organization, and coordination to support project governance and management for initiatives and projects owned by the Digital, Information Technology, and Data project management team. This leader ensures all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for project management. This leader also manages change and ensures the continuous improvement of project and portfolio management methodology, while also ensuring morale, productive and overall health of the team continues to improve over time.

What You Will Do

• Overall responsibility for definition/refinement and documentation of project and portfolio management best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with corporate, divisional, and departmental goals. Implements, measures and reports on the execution strategy defined for the team.
• Oversight for the project management development life cycle such as schedule, budget, risk, issues, actions working in both waterfall and agile methodology approaches. Scouts for and evaluates new processes, methodologies and tools as opportunities for innovation and project execution excellence.
• Develops effective communications for both internal and external key stakeholders, and keeps all engaged and informed on the PMO book of work. Identify and communicate product/program dependencies, resource constraints, and any other risks to the portfolio.
• Builds a high-performing team. Manages career progression for team members to include hiring, performance reviews, salary decisions, mentoring, and coaching.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards
  
  

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, IT Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years experience in business administration, information technology, or related roles required
• 4-6 years of people leadership experience required
• Experience with CA PPM
• 1-3 years Agile experience
• Strategic business acumen to align projects and programs with organizational strategy, lead and perform budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analysis. Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across programs.
• Project Management expertise includes: deep understanding of methodologies like agile, waterfall, and hybrid models. Establishing governance frameworks for oversight, reporting, and accountability. Optimizing use of people, tools, and time across multiple projects. Ensuring deliverables meet team standards and stakeholder expectations.
• Leadership, people management, coaching and mentoring to guide and inspire both project managers and cross functional partners. Engagement of key stakeholders is critical at the partner and executive levels.
• Demonstrated outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills to present complex information clearly to all stakeholders including senior leadership team; proven collaborator and facilitator; expert in bringing multiple groups together to agree on project scopes and build consensus.
• Experience with Agile Software Delivery. Safe, Jira, Clarity, CAB, ITIL, ServiceNow and other related software. Skilled in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
  
  

What You Will Get

• Competitive weekly pay and bonus opportunities.
• Total job benefits valued at more than $10k*. This includes a 401(k) plan with company matching, medical coverage plans customized to suit your needs and a commitment to work/life balance through our paid time off (PTO) programs, company holidays and paid volunteer days.
• Up to $5,250 in tuition reimbursement per year.
• View all our health, wealth and life offerings at www.safelitebenefits.com.
  
  

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as assigned to ensure workload coverage. This job description does NOT constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the organizational needs and requirements of the job change.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not, and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job’s essential duties because of an ADA disability.

Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws, regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodation will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job's essential duties because of an ADA disability. Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws and regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Retail

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