Job description

ComResource is looking for a Program/Portfolio Manager.

The Portfolio Manager oversees the coordination and completion of all aspects of assigned projects which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. They will lead projects to a successful conclusion by facilitating scope, managing customer expectations, monitoring day-to-day execution, and ensuring the project is on schedule and within budget. This person creates and maintains standard project management deliverables leveraging appropriate methods and practices to manage and control the project.

Responsibilities:

• Manages 1-4 concurrent programs and projects of strategic or foundational importance to the enterprise, with organizational complexity across 3-4 functions, of large-size resources/cost relative to the strategic portfolio. May include cross-functional impacts across the business. Manages projects, develops and distributes quality project-related documentation to all interested parties, including project plan and schedule, project charter, communications plan, requirements document, design document, deployment plan, test plan, maintenance transition plan, and notification of project end
• Determines the scope, budget, and resources for assigned projects based on historical information, input from other staff, and high-level technical understanding of project tasks.
• Holds project meetings internally and externally to ensure proper level of project-related communication, including project kickoff meeting to establish/confirm roles, regularly scheduled project team meetings to track progress, stakeholder meetings to provide status, post-implementation meeting with customers to ensure that project criteria have been fully met, and lessons learned meeting to gather feedback for use in future projects
• Ensures measures are taken in projects to increase quality and mitigate risk, including risk analyses, impact assessment, needs assessment, requirements signoff, code reviews, test planning and execution, fallback plans, and deployment plans
• Measures and reports project performance, project milestones, and other project information to project stakeholders and senior management on a regular basis, including escalating issues that require management attention
• Provides leadership and motivation and establishes a teamwork environment for the project team; and advises, influences, and coaches team members in the development and achievement of project goals
• Helps facilitate project prioritization processes, including prepare project materials required for quarterly and monthly prioritization sessions on assigned projects
• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures for implementing changes

Essentials:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, and Master’s/Advanced Degree preferred, in business, management, information systems, computer science, or a related field
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP) required
• 10+ years’ experience in Project Management
• Solid leadership, communications, and program management skills with the ability to successfully mobilize diverse resources and project teams across a wide variety of areas/functions/levels to effectively manage large, complex projects simultaneously required
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Word and Excel). Knowledge of project management software preferred
• Possess critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Change Champion attributes
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

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