IT PORTFOLIO SR MANAGER

The Portfolio Manager provides enterprise level oversight and governance for DGIT strategic IT initiatives. This role ensures alignment with business priorities, drives cross functional transparency, and stewards multiyear roadmaps that span multiple domains. The Sr Portfolio Manager directs prioritization, sequencing, resource alignment, and delivery governance across all programs within the portfolio. The position serves as a key liaison between, IT and business partners, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, and vendor partners to ensure clarity, accountability and on time execution. Although this role does not have HR direct reports, it provides day to day leadership, work direction and supervision to Project managers, project Analysts, and Scrum Masters responsible for coordinating delivery.

Duties & Responsibilities

Portfolio Management

• Owns end to end portfolio strategy, planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple IT domains
• Leads development of integrated portfolio roadmaps, including scope, financials, dependencies, and multi-year scheduling
• Provides daily leadership and work supervision to Project Managers, project Analysts, and Scrum Masters; assigns work, sets priorities, and ensures delivery outcomes
• Oversees definition and approval of project charters, success metrics and critical milestones
• Drives alignment with business partners, Finance Engineering, and product Teams to optimize delivery sequencing and business value
• Leads risk, issue, and dependency management across program and domain boundaries
• Facilities executive steerco discussions, communicates strategic trade-offs, and influences decision making across senior stakeholder

Govern & Measure

• Champions portfolio governance practices and organizational change management across all supported projects
• Establishes delivery health KPIs, monitors portfolio performance, and leads portolfio-wide reporting to senior leadership (Director, CIO, VPs)
• Ensures compliance to PMO standards, DG governance, SOX/SOW requirements and financial stewardship expectations
• Partners with ITFA (Finance) to manage forecasting actuals, capital expense allocation budget variance, and vendor cost tracking
• Evaluates resource capacity, identifies gaps, and drives cross team resource strategies to ensure portoflio success
• Leads cross functional review cycles, escalates risks proactively, and drives migitation action across domains
• Consolidates program level information into clear, executive ready summaries and dashboards

Team Development

• Provides day to day supervision, direction and coaching to Project Managers, Project Analysts, and Scrum Masters without formal HR reporting responsbilities
• Mentors team members on portoflio management practices, delivery governance, and communication standards
• Represents IT in enterprise committees, portolfio forums, and cross functional working groups
• Builds strong relationships with Business, engineering, legal, Finance, and Startegic Functions to support holistic delivery
• Promotes IT culture of accountability, commitment tracking transparency and continuous improvement

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): 

• Ability to understand and communicate decisions impact the broader enterprise (big Picture perspective)
• Expertise in Project and Portfolio Management, Risk and Issue Management, and Strategic Planning across multi-year initiatives
• Strong leadership and communication skills for influencing senior stakeholders across the enterprise
• Ability to assign work, set priorities, and supervise delivery teams in a non-HR management model
• Strong organization skills with the ability to prioritize, delegate, and drive outcomes under tight deadlines
  

Work Experience &/or Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent l experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in project management or portfolio management (multi-year/ multi-domain experience strongly preferred)
• Retailor distribution industry experience preferred
• PMI, PgMP, SAFE, or similar certifications are a plus