Portfolio Manager

Our reputable client has an exciting opportunity for a Portfolio Manager. Our client is a South African-based financial services group listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and on the Namibian Stock Exchange in Namibia.

**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 Momentum Insure’s 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 identification/removal of barriers to delivery
- Promote the pace and energy within the team and leading by example
- Strong commitment and support for the success of the team and is outcomes

Agile delivery
- Develop agile delivery best practices and collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to maintaining standards for project management and embed good agile delivery principles
- Key stakeholder engagement with areas in Momentum Metropolitan to align on delivery of initiatives
- to evaluate delivery processes and practices to find and support the best ways of delivery for the business


People goals
- Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with diverse leaders
- Proven experience managing effective programmes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery
- Strong ability to design and implement dashboards; ability to analyze data and present it in a way that tells a story
- Comfortable with ambiguity, can handle the unexpected with flexibility
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
- Ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others

**Skills**
- Negotiation skills
- Analytical skills
- Microsoft Office skills
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Planning and organizing skills
- Conflict management skills

**Competencies & Behaviours**
- Actively live the company values
- Analytical thinker
- Self-Starter
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Customer/ Stakeholder commitment
- Drive for results
- Collaboration
- Impact and Influence
- Exploring possibilities
- Making decisions
- Managing tasks
- Developing strategies
- Resolving conflict
- Articulating information
- Meeting timelines

**Experience and Qualifications**

**Qualifications**
- Relevant B-degree or Diploma (essential)
- Relevant M-degree (desirable)
- Relevant Project Management Certification (desirable