Description:
We are looking for an excellent Portfolio Manager
Role Purpose
The Agile Portfolio Manager will provide oversight to portfolio level value-driven governance for agile product deliveries across Momentum Insure. The position will play a crucial role in ensuring that all initiatives are aligned to the business strategy and meet short/long term business needs and value expectations.
This person will also drive portfolio-level information delivery and provide value risk oversight by partnering with product owners, product managers and project managers to define, analyze, and report on portfolio-level initiatives and business risks, metrics, and information related to value delivery
Responsibilities and work outputs
Portfolio management
• Ensure that the organization’s business and financial objectives and strategic goals are clearly articulated and accessible.
• Investigate the feasibility of initiatives in support of business strategy and objectives
• Facilitate, with the business executive team, initiative selection/approval and strategic prioritization to ensure maximum value to the business and prioritization of risk and compliance initiative.
• Maintain the overall business portfolio, with timeous inclusion of initiatives being implemented in the product/agile delivery teams.
• Ensure cross-product dependencies are managed
• Establish and implement metrics to measure the effectiveness of initiatives in line with goals and key performance indicators
• Ensuring the portfolio is meeting the stated goals and objectives and delivering on the expected return on investment
• When needed, highlight initiatives that could be terminated/stopped that are no longer contributing to the overall business strategy and objectives
• Creating reporting documentation to communicate progress and other portfolio metrics.
• Resource Management: Collaborate with line managers to ensure the team is properly staffed with the right capacity and competencies to deliver on initiatives and when needed facilitate the (re-)allocating of resources throughout the life cycle of the portfolio.
• Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries
• Partner with product teams to review lean business cases, linking business benefits to investments for funding and allocation requests
• Ensure agile principles and practices are applied consistently
• 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 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 the iden...