Senior Manager IT Portfolio

Ryder System, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ryder System, Inc. seeks a Sr. IT Portfolio Manager to mature the lean portfolio management framework and foster collaborative IT and business partnerships. You will drive value-oriented plans to guide proactive decisions in a dynamic environment.

You will oversee portfolio reporting standards, manage budgets from mid to large scales, and coach teams in Lean-Agile practices to optimize delivery and investment outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience maturing lean portfolio management across IT organizations.
• Proven ability to manage multi-million dollar budgets and investments.
• Strong collaboration with IT, Finance and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Mature lean portfolio management framework across IT to enable value realization.
• Develop value-oriented plans guiding proactive decision making amidst constraints.
• Oversee portfolio reporting on budget, schedule, risks, and KPI metrics.
• Lead Lean-Agile practices, coaching PMs, Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Balance portfolio value with risk, dependencies and resource allocation.

Skills

Lean portfolio management

Budget management

Stakeholder collaboration

Lean-Agile

Risk and dependency management

Strategic planning

Leadership

Job description

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Summary

Job Description

The Sr. IT Portfolio Manager will be responsible for maturing the lean portfolio/project management framework across the IT organization to foster collaborative partnerships with IT and Business partners, and identify creative, cost-effective solutions to achieve strategic business value.

The Sr. IT Portfolio Manager combines an understanding of lean portfolio management principles with the existing technology portfolio, to develop value-oriented plans that guide proactive decision-making in order to manage unforeseen demands, constraints, risks, and dependencies inherent to Ryder's environment.

To accomplish this, the Sr. IT Portfolio Manager will maintain and support the development of project portfolio status reporting standards and oversee reporting of their portfolio to IT Leadership on key performance metrics, such as budget and schedule health, risks and mitigation plans, project/product intake, demand, and resource management processes.

Essential Functions

• Solid understanding of accounting rules for expense and capital activities, manages portfolio budgets (range from $10M-$100M) and acts as a steward of the company to ensure budgets are best utilized to achieve stated scope and anticipated benefits are realized. Works with IT Finance to support labor forecasting and reporting needs on projects and programs within the portfolio. Evaluates past funding decisions against budgetary request to assess impact to planned budgets vs. actual expenditures and variances.
• Build trusted and effective relationships with IT and Business partners in order to facilitate improved communication and create a collaborative partnership among portfolio stakeholders that enables resource demand planning, budget management, initiative strategic alignment, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions.
• Contributes to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on options, risks, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on departmental processes. Partners effectively with IT, Finance, and Business stakeholders to support capital expense planning, to build strong lean business cases for product and project funding / budgets, backlog management, pre-project planning, cost estimation, investment management, and business relationship management activities. Evaluate investment performance of the portfolio against stated goals, objectives, and key results in partnership with IT and Business partners.
• Helps to guide value-driven development that aligns with the Objectives and Key Results of the organization, and monitors and reports on key performance indicators to tie results and return on investment back to overall vision.
• Functions as a servant leader fostering Lean-Agile Continuous Delivery, promoting and coaching Lean-Agile principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing, and fulfill their cross-functional potential. Provides ad-hoc coaching and guidance to Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and individual team members.
• Define and implement portfolio management processes to support evidence-based decision making on IT investments and process improvements such as planning, data collection, analysis, prioritization, reporting, and governance. Maximizes portfolio performance though decisive leadership to optimize the allocation of financials and resources across project / programs, while balancing portfolio value versus overall risk.
• Support the implementation and administration of the project portfolio management solution across the IT organization with the goal of ensuring alignment across IT and its partners, focuses on prioritization, program & project tracking, resource alignment across all IT initiatives, and improving the successful execution of IT initiatives. Creates mechanisms for regular process reviews and continuous process improvements to support Delivery Leads, Program and Project Managers within the portfolio to ensure adherence to Delivery Team governance and methodology.
• Drive agility and improvement by managing risks and dependencies, escalates impediments to ensure portfolio delivery. Proactively and consistently communicates with the team, business owners, and leaders to ensure all impacted stakeholders understand risks, issues, and activities related to the portfolio. Manages and improves the flow of value through the portfolio by assessing and optimizing the practices associated with the team (DevOps, Product Management, Security, Architecture, etc.) in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

Additional Responsibilities

• May be asked to support one or multiple projects or project functions, as bandwidth allows.
• Work to guide and coach others (scrum leaders) about the ART and Lean-Agile practices.
• Constantly refine and stay current with emerging themes in larger Agile community.
• Participate in Portfolio and Program Management process improvement and standardization activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrate high level of emotional intelligence, be able to influence without authority, be an effective negotiator, manage conflict within the team, and communicate with various organizational levels, including cross-functionally, at the frontline, and with senior leadership.
• Experience measuring team delivery, maturity, and performance and creating reporting metrics and dashboards that illustrate the flow of value on the performance and efficiency of the portfolio.
• Highly developed strategic planning skills with a strong understanding of IT operating models and experience working with multiple teams to develop strategies and deliver solutions.
• Experience leading multiple, complex workstreams and collaborates with various departments, including cross-interdependency projects, cross-functional and consultant team members assigned to several projects within a program, to ensure alignment to the portfolio.
• Develops and delivers effective presentations.
• Presents information and ideas to others in a succinct and impactful manner.
• Demonstrated experience in organizing, planning and executing large-scale teams from conception through implementation.
• Ability to lead and direct the work of department staff or project/product teams.
• Advanced skills with communicating and delivering presentations to virtual, in-person, and ELT level audiences.
• Experience working in different software procurement and deployment methodologies (Six Sigma and/or Agile experience is preferred).
• Demonstrated experience utilizing project plans,