Sr. Mgr. Portfolio Governance

Sr. Mgr. Portfolio Governance

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Fully Remote

locations

Rosemont IL

time type

Full time

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Posted 3 Days Ago

job requisition id

R249286

ARE YOU A CURRENT US FOODS EMPLOYEE? PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR INTERNAL WORKDAY CAREER SITE.

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At US Foods, innovation and technology is our superpower. By expanding our digital ecosystem and leading with a customer-first mindset, we’re delivering technology that empowers our customers and simplifies business. As we transform the digital landscape of the foodservice industry, we’re outpacing our competitors faster than ever before.

We believe diversity is the cornerstone of creativity and innovationand we foster an open, inclusive, flexible work environment that supports our transformation.

The Senior Manager, Portfolio Governance will be part of the Office of the CIDO and is responsible for building, implementing, championing and continuously improving US Foods’ technology portfolio, program, project and product governance practices. This is a key role reporting to the Director of Project and Portfolio Governance and seen as a thought leader over Portfolio Governance and best practices regarding executive portfolio measurements and KPIs.

The Sr. Manager, Portfolio Governance role should have solid experience developing portfolio governance practices and developing industry standard alignment metrics, including OKRs and KPIs. Relationship management skills will be vital. This role will build strong partnerships with Sr. Directors, Delivery Leads, Program Managers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and other value delivery leaders. 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.

Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Sr Mgr Portfolio Governance position is completed 100% remotely anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for the design and implementation of portfolio management governance processes.
Define and implement project management execution standards for the organization and standardize how they support portfolio governance and monitoring processes, notably in agile methodology.
Review existing US Foods practices and continue to evolve our governance framework so that they are aligned with industry leading practices in managing programs and projects.
Develop and implement governance and delivery processes that clarify for all external business function teams and the Enterprise Program Office how to work with the IT delivery teams and IT value streams.
Develop and implement processes that ensure that the IT delivery teams are prioritizing work effectively and remain aligned to IT strategic initiatives.
Implement demand planning process, distilling work, mapping to business strategies and goals, and presenting in a digestible format for all stakeholders.
Develop project and portfolio governance metrics and feedback measurements to ensure professional delivery of projects. according to industry leading practices, standards, and methodologies
Develop and implement outcome-based portfolio and project performance metrics and present these to the IT Leadership Team as part of the review of all major IT initiatives.
Facilitate monthly IT portfolio reviews with the IT Leadership Team.
Present the IT portfolio metrics and status to senior audiences across external business PMO departments and the Enterprise Program Office.
Facilitate additional portfolio governance ceremonies that support approvals, prioritization, and risk management.
Facilitate the portfolio prioritization of efforts with both the IT Leadership Team and the Expanded IT Leadership Team members.
Support the management, training, coaching, mentoring and performance of a group of experienced project and product leaders.
Coach, mentor and train product owners, scrum masters and project managers to ensure common knowledge, skills and tools and practices are adopted, while still providing freedom for autonomy within a delivery framework (embedding agile first principles and processes within the team).
Work closely with the IT Finance team to set the annual operating plan strategy, working across IT teams to consolidate bottom up and top-down enterprise plans.
Facilitate monthly and annual management of forecasting across the IT delivery organization.
Initiate and manage highly collaborative cross functional relationships with all functional teams to optimize shared processes and meet stakeholder requirements
Provide oversight for large complex programs with governance over workstreams to ensure quality delivery through effective methodology.
Timely escalation and reporting of any portfolio, program or project issues to Executive Management and various management and risk committees.
Ensure change management is well planned and executed across change initiatives.
Contribute to building an IT PM COE to ensure platform available for ongoing discussions
Advisor to ITLT on portfolio risks/opportunities and aid in the running of special assignments to continue to drive us forward.
Development and oversight of our PPM tool, aid in user adoption, and instill best practices.
Other duties as assigned by manager

RELATIONSHIPS
Internal:
VPs within IT and occasionally VPs in business functions
Domain leading directors and product delivery leads within IT and all business functions
VPs and directors within the enterprise program office and within business function PMOs
Program managers, project managers, scrum masters, and product owners within all IT value streams
Project managers and project owners within the business functions
External:
Consultants, contractors, technology vendors and staffing vendors

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must possess a minimum of 8 years of experience in Project, Program and Portfolio management or governance in complex multi-functional organization using PMI best practices in traditional and agile delivery
Must possess a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role
Experience working in a PMO organization in a leadership role preferred
Capable of establishing and analyzing project metrics, portfolio metrics, reporting on metrics utilizing PPM tools to Senior Leadership on Enterprise Prioritization Committee.
Experience with project stage gates, and governance best practices associated with key deliverables per stages
Effective influence, negotiation, and collaboration skills, as well as communication skills to all levels of the organization
Familiarity with portfolio financials as related to metrics of portfolio delivery
Prior experience using Agile and waterfall methodology required
Prior experience applying proven project management methodologies to large mission critical projects
Excellent leadership skills, relationship management skills, and the ability to manage and motivate any direct and indirect reports
Proven record of accomplishment leading and developing teams
Comfortable managing and influencing stakeholders in a matrixed, cross functional organization
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent presentation skills with the ability to conduct presentations comfortably to large groups
Experience with executive leadership communications and reporting
Ability to present and train changes to operating mode to large audiences of diverse stakeholders
Experience in multi-vendor eco system with ability to manage conflicts/escalations
Experience leading complex projects and program implementations
0% of mandatory travel

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
Master’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Scrum Master Certification and/or PMP certification preferred

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Prior people management experience highly preferred
PPM Tool – MSFT’s Project Online (PWA) or MS Project Professional desktop experience highly preferred
Prior experience building a PMO and managing a staff in a PMO setting
Experience leading associates with management experience
Experience with enterprise project portfolio prioritization

The following information is provided in accordance with certain state and local laws. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $100,500 and $134,000. In New York, the expected compensation for this role is between $119,600 and $159,500. In California, the expected compensation for this role is between $113,600 and $151,500. In Washington, the expected compensation for this role is between $113,600 and $151,500. This role is also eligible for annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.