Senior IT Project Manager - Switzerland, United Kingdom - Oliver James

Oliver James

Verified Company

Switzerland, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

IT Portfolio & Project Manager 80-100% (all genders)
Your Mission

IT Portfolio manager will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the IT portfolio, including pro-jects, from ideation to implementation with prioritization based on business value, IT enablers and IT resource availability.

Ensure the portfolio deliversthe agreed objectives and that agreed projects are completed to a consistently high standard, within budget, on time and are aligned appropriately with project management processes.

**Your tasks

IT project Portfolio Management**- Managing the strategic IT portfolio (Business and IT capabilities), management process and governance, considering the priorities, schedules, dependencies and available resources.

Improve and strengthen the portfolio management (IT Project Governance) policies and processes to support decisions on investments into IT projects in collaboration with the IT architecture board.
Participate in discussions and activities regarding IT project funding, resourcing and prioritization and finding a good balance between Business and IT enablers.
Organize and involve in investment proposals review and prioritization, maintain IT service portfolio pipeline, to ensure alignment with organizational strategy (Company and IT) and considering business urgency, value and provision
Move program and projects through IT portfolio planning and execution
Standardize, document and harmonize project management methodology across IT
Coach, mentor project managers and scrum masters to increase project management maturity and methodology compliance
Understand, evaluate and manage risks IT portfolio
Manage tools to automate and facilitate IT portfolio planning (Azure DevOps)
Actively support and participate to the Agile Transformation and the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to foster Lean-Agile mindset and Agile Portfolio
In coordination with the LACE, plan and prepare future Portfolio transformation (Agile Portfolio Mgmt and organize PI planning)

IT Project Management

Manage IT projects and take accountability for delivery in scope, on budget and on schedule
Establish project plans and budgets
Work out contracts / SoWs with vendors and contribute to negotiations
Set and track milestones and deliverables
Identify project risks and issues and propose mitigation actions**
Your qualifications
10 years of total experience in IT Project management
3+ years of experience of IT Governance/Portfolio Management
PMP or PRINCE2 and SAFe (or similar) certification are a plus
Good understating on Transformational and Optimization projects
Demonstrate strong analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills and coordination skill among multi teams.
Strong ability to set priorities and adapt to changes in a quick, professional manner
Strong key stakeholders management skills
Strong ownership mindset; selfmotivated and passionate; able to deliver without being asked
Excellent leadership, communication, visualization and presentation skills in English (German at B2 or higher a plus), able to communicate with technical and business audiences effectively