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Portfolio Manager- Remote

Date Posted: 10/20/2023

Job #1630920
Contract
rolling meadows, Illinois
TITLE: Portfolio Product Manager
Location: Remote
Compensation Range : ( 75-95/hr )

Position Summary:
The Portfolio Product Manager (PPM) will design and implement investment strategies and processes to drive optimal demand management through the use of Planview Portfolios and AgilePlace. The PPM will construct and manage Digital portfolios based on business value associated with multiple products. The PPM will support and improve business and technology processes by managing, monitoring, and reporting value stream metrics for various technology products.
 
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Manages portfolio budgets and financials  
  • Experience with optimizing resources for capacity
  • Provides guidance on business value metrics for projects
  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Planview Portfolios/AgilePlace integration to guide Product Owners on proper board setup
  • Ensure Planview is configured and monitoring valuable Objective Key Results (OKRs)
  • Responsible for communicating to product teams, stakeholders and executives
 
Qualifications:
Required:
  • Bachelor's degree  
  • 5 years related experience required, including technical portfolio and project management
  • Experience producing detailed project schedules and resource requirements
  • Exceptional verbal, analytical and written communication skills – must be comfortable speaking and writing to C-level audiences, as well as technical audiences. 
Preferred:
  • Planview Portfolios
  • Agile Expertise
  • OCM Expertise
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Risk Expertise
Behaviors:
  • Organizational Awareness – adaptability and business process knowledge
  • Data Acumen – Data visualization, storytelling and literacy
  • Cross-functional Collaboration – Collaboration opportunity identification, consensus building, meetings facilitation and tactfulness
  • Decision Making – Responsiveness, persistence, and pattern recognition
  • Digital Adoption – Technology curiosity, savviness and personal technological adoption
  • Financial Acumen – financial foresight, organizational financial understanding and financial accounting
  • Process and Framework Expertise
  • Customer Centricity – feedback responsiveness and design thinking
  • Growth Mindset – skills diversification and openness to feedback
  • Coaching and Motivation – coaching and team incentivization
  • Analytical interest in metrics, data and driving continuous improvements
  • Ability to drive consensus among various stakeholders, including technology management and third parties 
  • Ability to lead process improvement initiatives and to collaborate effectively with technology, application, compliance, and audit personnel at multiple levels 
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously  
  • Ability to work at a fast pace and cope with conflicting deadlines.
Work Traits: 
  • Able to work under broad supervision.
 

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