Strategic Portfolio Manager Apply locations Gauteng, Johannesburg
Time type Full time
Posted on Posted 2 Days Ago
Time left to apply End Date: December 28, 2024 (27 days left to apply)
Job requisition id JR101360
Join TIH, home to some of South Africa's leading financial service providers, and grow your career while being part of an organisation with purpose. Job Purpose The Strategic Portfolio Manager has accountable oversight to a portfolio of work within STI, applying industry best practices to manage the intake, scoping, planning, staffing, execution methodology, and long-term road mapping of projects within the portfolio. This role requires a deep understanding of Project, Program & Portfolio Architecture, strong leadership skills, and experience managing teams. The Strategic Portfolio Manager function will work and collaborate across various organisational functions to ensure business value is delivered per organisational strategic goals.
Responsibilities Program/Portfolio Management: Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved. Ensure the Portfolio roadmap translates into effective work intake processes, prioritising initiatives based on strategic impact and resource availability. Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals. Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Partner with division leaders with an overall business viewpoint to identify priority impact areas. Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships. Budgeting and Costing: Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues. Develop and execute budgets. Project Benefit Realisation: Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximise these. Project/Program Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organisation's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes. Project/Program Team Management: Lead a medium to large project team; define the project vision and communicate the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome, coordinates team actions on project activities. Portfolio Reporting and Review: Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at agreed review points. Innovation Strategy, Pipeline and Roadmap: Champion an innovation stream within the innovation road map, ensuring the right resources are in place to execute on the strategy. Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these where appropriate. Project Resource Management: Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets. Education Bachelor's degree required (Business field or Business IT) (Essential); Relevant industry certification such as PMI Project/Program/Portfolio Management Professional (PgMp) (Essential); Master's degree preferred (MBA) (Advantageous); PfMP/P3O (Advantageous)
Experience At least 10 years of work experience in a project management capacity, leading multiple initiatives (Essential); At least 5 years of Portfolio management experience (Essential); 5 or more years experience in a leadership position (Essential).
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