Manager, IT Portfolio Management

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KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, IT Portfolio Management to join our Digital Nexus Technology organization.

Responsibilities:

• Provide governance and management of the demand pipeline and act as primary partner for the Business Engagement Leads to capture, structure, align and plan business demand and match this demand with the IT supply functions' capacity; ensure consistent capturing and prioritization of the demand towards IT and regular alignment and prioritization of demand
• Capture new demand and ensure structured and high quality of demand's scope and specification to have a consistent basis for estimation and scheduling of the implementation
• Coordinate and communicate new demand that comes into IT to the appropriate stakeholders (e.g., architecture, security, development, data) to improve speed of IT's response rate
• Liaise with the Business Engagement Lead's to shape and implement the demand management processes consistently across Functional IT groups; communicate upcoming activity to IT team to ensure alignment on priorities and need
• Identify common threads among projects to accelerate delivery, and encourage common tools working closely with architecture
• Ensure business and/or executive sponsorship and support exists prior to request submission; work closely with delivery teams during the planning phase to ensure customers' needs are appropriately addressed, leading to successful project execution when transitioned to project delivery teams

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent project management or team leadership experience in successfully delivering complex technology solutions
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
• Experience overseeing formal cost/benefit analysis; prior experience developing relationships with and ensuring the appropriate participation of key client stakeholders and client executives
• Ability to see the customers' point of view and service-oriented mindset; demonstrated outstanding technical communication skills; excellent verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority
• Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork
• Strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; ability to participate in resource planning processes based on defined organizational plans

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