We are looking for an excellent 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 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 

• 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)

• Knowledge of relevant Project Management software and tools

• Knowledge of Project Management lifecycle, from conception to close-out

• Knowledge of agile methodology

• Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

• Knowledge of products administered by the business unit will be an advantage

Experience

• 7+ years’ experience in a dedicated project management position (essential)

• Experience with managing large-scale programmes from conceptualization to close-out (essential)

• Experience with managing a portfolio of work

• 3 – 5 years in a senior management position (desirable)

• Business experience – understanding of business and business processes

• Proficient understanding of the Insurance industry

Location

The above-mentioned position is currently available at our office in Centurion.

If you are interested,

Send your CV,  salary expectation, notice period, ID number to the below email

James@abcworldwide.com