The Director - IT, Portfolio & PMO Management leads the enterprise IT portfolio management and PMO disciplines and team, translating business strategy into an executable, governed, and value-driven portfolio. The role enables transparent investment decisions, validates value delivery, manages portfolio-level dependencies and capacity, improves predictable delivery across projects, programs, and products, and leads executive portfolio reviews with decision-quality insight on priorities, funding, risks, benefits, and outcomes.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBLITIES
Portfolio Strategy, Intake and Prioritization
- Lead IT portfolio, strategy, intake, sequencing and prioritization aligned with business and technology objectives
- Apply consistent criteria for strategic value, urgency, risk, cost, dependencies and capacity
- Maintain a transparent portfolio view and recommend investment, trade-off and sequencing decisions
- Partner with business and technology leaders to strengthen proposal, ownership, outcomes and readiness
Executive Governance and Decision Support
- Lead executive portfolio reviews, recommendations, escalation and decision follow through
- Establish governance, decision rights, stage gates, accountability and escalation paths
- Provide clear reporting on portfolio health, value, financials, capacity, risks and required decisions
- Tailor governance to initiate size, complexity, risk and deliver approach
Financial Management and Value Realization
- Lead portfolio planning, forecasting, investment scenarios and capital & operating expense oversight with Finance
- Establish standards for business cases, total cost of ownership, benefits and value validation
- Challenge investment assumptions and provide transparency into forecast and actual spend
- Track adoption, outcomes and realized value with benefit owners, addressing gaps as needed
Resource and Demand Management
- Align portfolio demand with capacity, skills, sourcing options and delivery constraints
- Identify resource bottlenecks and recommend sequencing, staffing, sourcing or scope trade-offs in alignment with the respective resource managers.
- Improve visibility into workforce and partner allocation while maintaining functional accountability
Delivery Standards and Portfolio Assurance
- Establish fit-for-purpose standards and tools across predictive, Agile, hybrid, product and vendor-led delivery