Technical Portfolio Manager -retail / grocery

Pomeroy Technologies, LLC.

Remote, OR

Expired: over a month ago Applications are no longer accepted.

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Job Description

Pomeroy has an immediate need for a Technical Portfolio Manager-Tech Lead contractor. This is a remote opportunity.

Education • Relevant Bachelor/Master degree a plus- (e.g. Business Administration, IT Management)

8-10 years progressively responsible technical leadership experience in IT.
This role must have knowledge of retail grocery and the technology that supports that environment including topics in Security, Network, Technical Design, and Quality Assurance.
Proficiency in using structured systems development methods and techniques. Process knowledge/ thinking ( General Architect).
Directs lifecycle activities including selection, implementation, and upgrade of a collection of solutions in an assigned portfolio. Oversee the effectiveness of the assigned portfolio against the business strategy and roadmap. Provides technical leadership in the planning, development, implementation and operational support processes of new business solutions and enhancements of existing application software/infrastructure in the assigned portfolio
Work collaboratively with Global portfolio management and business analysis peers to maintain the strategic IT project portfolio alignment with Business and IT strategy
Manages the investment portfolio and ensure that all planned investments are aligned with the business and IT stakeholders and have executive stakeholder commitment
Continuously evaluate, prioritize and optimize IT investment portfolio based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits and critical risk across all regions. The portfolio manager ensures that Investment evaluation process meets investment standards and criteria and has the proper authorization level.
Ensure that the "solution teams" efforts are properly scheduled and staffed, that all staff are properly allocated to ensure that commitments are met as scheduled and within budget. Organize and direct the "solution team" and third-party providers in the planning, development, implementation and operations support of systems to support the assigned portfolio in alignment with the IM strategic roadmap Metric.
Scheduling of projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders
Coordinates with Leadership, Project Managers, vendors and Business Consultants to allocate resources to areas within the portfolio in need of most improvement. Balance the resources across projects and operating units to optimize benefits delivery to the business
Responsible for cost consequence within portfolio. Study, analyze, and define the impact of business needs on the system components and its interfaces to provide maximum benefits from each system and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Analyze and report on the performance of the project portfolio and individual programs throughout the entire lifecycle
Continuously monitor and track the full IT project portfolio, its progress and performance and the successful development of the required business and IT capabilities
Tracking, mitigation of critical and portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalation to the appropriate IT leadership meetings. Monitor overall risk profile of project portfolio
Ensures life cycle assessment for selected portfolio components occurs, determining remaining useful life of hardware/software components based on business functionality, technical architecture, vendor strategies, competitor activities, and package alternatives Metric.
Identify projects that require independent quality assurance (e.g. high risk, high value projects)
Facilitates stage-gates for strategic high risk projects in the portfolio
Develop portfolio quality assurance framework, standards and tooling.
Support the delivery of project quality assurance (e.g. peer reviews) Metric
Report on actual benefits realization based on the approved business case
Benefits tracking: initiate the process to monitor actual benefit realization in the business after project implementation
Evaluates if business benefits significantly deviate from expected benefits, escalate issues to the appropriate party and implement lessons learned in the portfolio prioritization process..
Customer Focus
Strong communicator with mid-level leadership members on strategic topics, adding value to vision and strategy
Experience with Windows server based applications, SQL Databases, some .Net experience is a plus.

Company Description

For over 35 years, Pomeroy has enabled technology that enhances and empowers people in the workplace.

Today we partner with our clients to help them transform from a “one size fits all” delivery model to a personalized human experience that is a differentiator and the key to delivering digital transformation and better business outcomes.

It’s all about delivering an exceptional experience, one that is simple, intuitive and secure – anytime, anyplace and from any device. Our workplace is no longer a physical location or workstation, rather it’s the place where a person can work at any given time with full capacity to do their job productively and effectively.

We deliver that experience by connecting the dots between people and their applications, across a network that is intuitive and automated to where the applications live, today that is in a hybrid IT environment, on premise and in the cloud, with security an integral part of everything we do. We provide managed IT services to support our clients from our locations throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Our service delivery model combines monitoring, prevention and resolution in an approach that is always aware, proactive and responsive.

Our field engineers support more than 50,000 sites across North America alone and respond to more than 3 million incidents and user requests annually covering 2 million desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets, servers, printers and other peripherals.

Our expertise connecting the workplace, network and hybrid IT is industry recognized, including Gartner recognition for over 17 years as one of a select few who can deliver agile, quality Managed Workplace Services. And although technology and innovation are key ingredients in our solutions, our people are our greatest asset. Over 3,000 highly motivated and diverse, dedicated to supporting our 700+ clients, from midsize organizations to large, well-known US and global brands, 15 in the Fortune 500.

“The Pomeroy Way” is our guiding principle. It’s a conscious understanding that who we are as individuals and how we choose to interact with others is a direct reflection of who we are as a company and how we will be viewed as an organization. It defines our company and our culture as the place to be, the place to stay and the place to grow.

Pomeroy is a global provider of technology solutions and services designed to keep businesses and their workforce always connected, always secure, and always working. Our team of 2000 professionals advises, deploys, monitors, manages, and recruits talent for more than 50,000 client locations across North America and Europe. Our decades of experience walking alongside our clients have earned us lasting relationships and high satisfaction ratings.