2022 79 Portfolio Manager

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Data Centrix Full time

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**
- 5+ years working experience in IT Portfolio Management
- A relevant Bachelors Degree or equivalent
- Post graduate qualification preferred
- PMP preferred

**Skills**:

- Effective negotiation and persuasion skills
- Expert planning and organisational skills
- Outstanding communication and inter-personal skills with the ability to clearly communicate with senior management
- High-level of IT literacy
- Ability to co-ordinate colleagues and contracted parties through expert leadership, motivation, teamwork, supervision and accountability
- Proven capability to manage stakeholders at all levels

**Key Tasks**
- Facilitate and coordinate the efforts of leadership toward the establishment of the project portfolio definition, its structure and processes, from demand management and strategic alignment of projects and programs to portfolio categories and criteria, through evaluation, selection and prioritization; to execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results.
- Engage with and conduct monthly (or at other intervals as specified) reviews with senior business, IT, executives, stakeholder committees, the IT steering committee and other relevant bodies to validate and assess the project portfolio, execute change, and reprioritize to meet business needs as required.
- Ensure the oversight and coordination of dependencies across the projects and programs in the portfolio and resolve or escalate conflicts.
- Manage the capital planning process for respective business units.
- Lead reviews of any significant initiatives, projects or programs that are challenged and provide recommendations as to whether it should continue, be significantly changed, placed on hold or discontinued.
- Own the relationship with the Project Management Office meeting regularly with the PMO team and assisting with governance of departments overall project portfolio
- Direct the development and maintenance of communications and reporting around the IT project portfolios, their contents and the individual performance of initiatives to stakeholders, the IT steering committee, and senior executives.
- On behalf of the portfolio review team and steering committees, ensure the adherence to the appropriate governance functions relating to the portfolio and in accordance with enterprise guidelines, policies and practices.
- Perform regular health checks of projects according to project controls checklists.
- Direct the creation and maintenance of the required project portfolio documentation and artefacts.
- Work with project teams to manage/oversee the full range of the project life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, close) for projects covering a portfolio of projects
- Identify staffing needs. As mandated and resourced by leadership, ensure and balance the availability of the required skills and competencies across project and program teams within the project portfolio.

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