Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VSP is hiring a Senior Manager, Project/Portfolio Management to lead its Portfolio Solutions project management team and provide strategic direction for a complex portfolio. The role manages stakeholder relationships, project planning and delivery, team standards, portfolio value metrics, and continuous improvement of project management practices.
Responsibilities
- With minimal direction, provide management for the Portfolio Solutions project management team, setting the direction for operations and change-the-business initiatives; manage changing business needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies. Provide strategic direction and management in the areas associated with maintaining a complex portfolio
- Manage stakeholder relationships with senior-level management across various functions
- Collaborate with cross-functional business units around project planning, resourcing, and delivery
- Collaborate with IT technical teams and/or external consultants to ensure successful delivery of projects
- Provide leadership in the constructing of project teams, charters, project plans, contingencies, success metrics, and ROI measurements
- Guide project managers and analysts to ensure that project quality and project management standards are followed and continually improved
- Regularly interact with sponsors, stakeholders, and executive leadership to ensure meeting or exceeding project deliverables
- Establish and monitor value metrics to inform decisions that maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs
- Drive business value across all program activities
- Plan, implement, and continuously improve project management best practices and tool sets to streamline project processes and procedures and maximize operational effectiveness
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience; Minimum of 1 additional year of experience related to functional area
- Minimum of 3 years of management experience with responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work and managing performance of direct reports
- Project-related experience working on multiple concurrent simple to highly complex projects (project manager, business analyst, etc)
- Experience with various project management methodologies, standard concepts, practices, procedures, tools, and/or software packages
- Demonstrates ability to be a decision-maker, showing balanced consideration of business issues
- Ability to influence teams in various divisions toward common goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment
Benefits
- As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions.
- Remote (Work From Home (WFH))
Company Overview
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