Portfolio Governance Lead

Portfolio Governance Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and 10-15 years experience in program management or PMO function, or 12-18 years experience.
• Extensive expertise in governance, compliance, and risk management
• Strong leadership experience.
• Relevant certifications and educational background, and continuous professional development.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Enterprise-level project/program management or PMO experience paired with an extensive understanding of project management processes and standards.
• Ability to communicate and drive new/unfamiliar processes with groups of project managers.
• Cross-team collaboration at director/vice president levels.
• A customer service orientation with relationship-building solid skillsets and an understanding of how to leverage emotional intelligence in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• You will support data governance operations by identifying process improvements, risk-prioritizing operational tasks, managing project finances, and collaborating across departments on larger initiatives.
• Responsible for influencing the adoption and success of data governance processes, measuring and growing process maturity, and enabling continuous improvement.
• Drive the creation, reviews, and analyze OKRs & KPIs and implement corrective actions required following the analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on larger projects, ensuring efficient communication and coordination of efforts.
• Ensures that program processes, roles, responsibilities, and documentation are regularly reviewed and audited.
• You will ensure compliance with annual IT project portfolio planning, annual operating planning/budgeting and ensure all projects are managed consistently, reliably, and transparently across all IT workstreams.
• Through strong relationships, this role will ensure that partners understand and adopt governance processes, clarify delivery value drivers, maintain PPM data maturity, and practice sound financial stewardship of the portfolio.
• Define and implement project management execution standards for the organization and standardize how they support portfolio governance and monitoring processes, notably in agile methodology.
• Mentor and guide mid-level and junior team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Organizational change management and training delivery for new/updated tools or processes.
• PMP, LEAN, or CMMI certification.
• Strong analytics bent, able to pull insights from any data source for continuous improvement efforts.