IT Portfolio Management (AVP)

IT Portfolio Management (AVP)

Location: Pasay
Schedule: Monday - Friday, Morning Shift
Salary: Open Budget

Overview: The AVP, IT Portfolio Management is responsible for optimizing the company's IT investment portfolio, ensuring that all IT initiatives and projects are strategically aligned with business objectives and deliver maximum value. This role involves rigorous analysis, prioritization, and monitoring of IT projects, managing resource allocation, and providing strategic insights to senior leadership regarding the health and performance of the overall IT portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Strategy & Alignment: Develop and maintain the IT portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with the overall corporate strategy and business priorities.
• Investment Prioritization: Establish and manage a robust process for evaluating, prioritizing, and selecting IT investments based on strategic value, return on investment (ROI), risk, and resource availability.
• Resource Optimization: Oversee resource planning and allocation across the IT portfolio, ensuring optimal utilization of personnel and financial resources to achieve project objectives.
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Implement metrics and reporting frameworks to monitor the performance, health, and progress of the IT portfolio and individual projects. Provide regular, insightful reports and recommendations to senior management.
• Governance & Standards: Define and enforce IT portfolio governance processes, standards, and tools to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability across all IT initiatives.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Identify, assess, and manage risks and interdependencies within the IT portfolio, developing mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business leaders, IT delivery teams, and finance to facilitate informed decision-making regarding IT investments and manage expectations.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of portfolio management processes and methodologies, adopting best practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field. PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT project or program management, with at least 3-5 years specifically in IT portfolio management in a large organization.
• Experience in a fast-paced industry is highly desirable, understanding the pressures and strategic needs of IT investments in such an environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to perform complex financial modeling, ROI analysis, and risk assessment.
• Proficiency in portfolio management tools and software.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex information clearly to diverse audiences, including executive leadership.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive consensus among various stakeholders.